AMD Technologies Power Gaming

Leading the Way Forward

Gaming is the world’s largest media market, eclipsing the music, film, and on-demand entertainment sectors – combined. And it’s no surprise with billions of gamers worldwide and a market value that continues to rise.

Since the launch of AMD Ryzen™ processors in 2017, the gaming landscape has changed dramatically, and AMD continues to lead the way forward, powering home consoles, gaming PCs for desktop and mobile, and much of the infrastructure for online and competitive gaming.

See how AMD technologies power gaming, and how they’re delivering the cutting-edge experiences customers expect to create, serve, and play.

Couch, Chair, AMD Everywhere: Gaming in the Home

You’ll no doubt be familiar with the range of AMD Ryzen processors and AMD Radeon™ graphics products powering the latest PC gaming experiences. AMD recently launched the AMD Ryzen™ 7000 Series desktop and mobile processors, enhancing the family of desktop processors with AMD 3D V-Cache™ technology-enhanced options, while new mobile devices now drive desktop-gaming equivalent experiences on the go, thanks to AMD Ryzen 7000 Series mobile processors.

The AMD Radeon™ RX 7000 Series graphics cards also launched in 2022, delivering the standout AMD RDNA™ 3 architecture to market for the first time, featuring a new chiplet design, AV1 encoding, DisplayPort™ 2.1, new AI accelerators, and much more.¹

Beyond the PC, AMD powers additional at home systems; the latest generation of home consoles and handheld platforms like the Valve Steam Deck™ run on custom AMD architecture. From the couch to the home office or gaming den, AMD is now virtually everywhere in the home, powering modern gaming experiences at every level.

Producing Great Gaming Experiences: Broadcasting and Production

Gamers no longer simply play games; streaming, video content, and other forms of live media account for a huge proportion of online engagement in gaming.

AMD offers a range of PRO technologies, tailored for working professionals across a range of industries, and products such as the AMD Radeon™ PRO V620 graphics card enhance gaming media in several ways. Combined with AMD RDNA™ 2 GPU architecture, the same GPU architecture in the latest generation of PlayStation and Xbox consoles, games are accelerated at the data center to offer the smooth, immersive gaming experiences from the cloud. With two VCN engines, the AMD Radeon PRO V620 graphics card processes significantly more encode/decode/transcode operations compared to the previous generation AMD Radeon PRO V520 GPUs, resulting in faster gameplay rendering, and greater efficiency in the encoding and decoding of livestreamed content.

Twitch, the world’s most popular live streaming platform globally, served 1.3 trillion minutes of content through 2021, to 31 million daily visitors, from 8 million unique streamers. With live and interactive media now such an integral part of the gaming ecosystem, content creators and live-streamers are able to benefit from AMD PRO technologies to enhance the experience they offer to viewers.

Other AMD PRO products, such as AMD Threadripper™ PRO processors, go beyond delivering online content to creating it. The upcoming title Black Myth Wukong developed by Game Science has used the power of AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ and AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO processors to speed up rendering and compilation workloads.

Epic Games also employed AMD Ryzen Threadripper processors to improve the build times of their Unreal Engine, one of the leading game development engines today.

From delivering media to a live audience to developing content for gamers to play, AMD is enhancing the way gaming content is consumed and created.

Cloud Gaming and the Server: Serving Seamless Experiences

Behind the incredible world of gaming is a complex and powerful network of servers and wider infrastructure that enables players to explore new worlds, battle together or against each other, and build digital lives that last.

As the fidelity and complexity of games increases, the requirement for powerful performant infrastructure rises in tandem. Modern competitive titles such as Battlefield® 2042 now host up to 128 players along with increases in visual spectacle and immersion, while massively-multiplayer titles such as World of Warcraft® and Star Citizen host more players and complex interactions than ever.

This increase of both player volume and immersion and interactivity is enabled by advances in server technology, such as AMD EPYC™ processors. More powerful and efficient than ever, AMD EPYC processors deliver cutting-edge performance for all types of cloud, enterprise, and AI workloads. The most energy-efficient x86 servers that offer up to 2.7x the results of previous generation products with similar core counts and with broad ecosystem support, AMD EPYC™ 9000 Series processors are primed to support gaming across the board.^2,3

Examples of AMD EPYC™ processors’ successful application in game development include Amazon, which uses the power of AMD in its Virtual Workstations (G4ad) to offer developers, designers, and engineers remote workstation-class experiences. AAA game developer Turtle Rock Studios uses AMD EPYC processors to enhance the way it works on developing its titles.

Companies like Shadow use 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ processors to stream high-end gaming PC experiences from the cloud, delivering up to eight desktops per single-processor server to customers looking for a remote gaming experience.

With so many leading products across the spectrum of gaming and beyond, it’s easy to miss the broader picture of where AMD fits into the gaming landscape. From the home to the cloud, server room to the office desk, AMD technology is the cornerstone of modern gaming.⁴