Now, PowerColor is showing off a Radeon GPU with an external NPU, making it the first NPU+GPU pairing we've ever seen. Right off the top, if you were hoping having an NPU in your GPU would boost ...

The NPU monitors GPU temps in real-time to dynamically adjust fan speeds and power consumption, the company said, making it capable of reducing total power output while gaming by 22% in ECO mode.

PowerColor's Edge AI was programmed to manage power consumption of the GPU through the NPU, sort of an "Eco mode" which the company claims can bring wattage down and push frame rates up.

AMD's new Zen 5 architecture launches with the Ryzen AI 300 series "Strix Point" APUs, joined by new RDNA 3.5 GPU cores and new XDNA 2 architecture powering the NPU side of things for AI workloads.

The future of the PC according to Intel is a CPU-GPU-NPU trifecta and that definitely includes gaming. News. By Jeremy Laird published 7 January 2025 NPUs are here to stay, folks.

A year after the launch of the Copilot+ PC program, Microsoft seems determined to focus on NPUs rather than the more powerful GPUs that could be used for AI productivity as well as gaming.

That’s where NPUs come into play. An NPU is faster than a CPU at computing AI tasks, but not as fast when compared to a GPU.The trade-off is that an NPU uses far less power than a GPU when ...

We’re already seeing Copilot+ PCs push integrated NPU performance, but Dell’s move hints at a future where premium workstations could offer GPU, NPU, or hybrid configurations.