AMD RDNA 2 architecture
While it might have lagged in terms of PC market share, AMD s graphics division has dominated the high-end gaming console space for years now. The current and previous generations of Sony s PlayStation and Microsoft s Xbox consoles have all usedsome form of Radeon GPU, which does give AMD some advantages and insight into what capabilities gamers and game developers will be using over the next several years.
Last year s Radeon RX 5700 XT, based on the RDNA 1 architecture, was a significant improvement over its predecessors, delivering 50 percent better performance per Watt. AMD now says that RDNA 2 can achieve 54 percent better performance per Watt than even that. The RDNA2 chip on which these two GPUs are based has over 26 billion transistors, though each GPU model uses different amounts of these resources.