The comments come from Rick Bergman, the Executive Vice President of AMD’s Computing and Graphics Business Group, in an interview with business magazine The Street. Bergman confirmed that AMD is continuing to aggressively target performance per watt efficiency gains with its hardware, in order to improve performance without needing expensive cooling solutions, whilst avoiding forcing gamers to upgrade their power supplies along with their CPU or graphics card.

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AMD’s claims the RDNA 2 graphics architecture in the new RX 6000 Series provides a 50% performance per watt increase over RDNA, which itself was a 50% improvement over the preceding GCN architecture. Similarly, it claims the Zen 3 CPU architecture in the new Ryzen 5000 Series provides a 24% performance per watt increase over Zen 2, and a total 240% increase over the first generation Ryzen CPUs.

While improvements in efficiency are just one element of new hardware development, it plays a huge role in providing the headroom for leaps in performance, as well as performance per dollar. With its latest hardware, AMD’s substantial gains have helped it to take the gaming CPU crown from Intel, and arguably surpassed Nvidia’s latest hardware with its initial RX 6000 Series products. If the recent leaps in efficiency are repeated next time around, AMD could find itself becoming a clear performance leader, especially in the CPU market, where Intel continues to lag behind in reducing its fabrication sizing.

In just a few short years AMD has gone from trailing to trailblazer. By clearly setting out a challenging road map the company has caught up with its rivals, and even surpassed them in some areas. With this in mind it is no surprise that the company is extremely confident about hardware that is still over a year away. This hopefully means more great news for PC gamers over the coming years, while also providing a clear warning to Intel and Nvidia that the revitalized AMD is not going anywhere.

It would be wrong to write Intel and Nvidia off though, as both companies are more than capable of creating huge leaps in performance, as gamers have seen many times in the past. Both will undoubtedly be working hard to make the same kind of gains that have catapulted AMD to the front of the performance charts.

AMD RDNA 3 and Zen 4 hardware is expected in early 2022.

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Source: The Street