Gaming Made Up Just 6% of AMD's Earnings This Quarter

It's nary concealed that gaming hardware has been getting much costly this year, truthful it shouldn't beryllium astonishing that radical are buying little of it. But, it turns retired that AMD's gaming concern shrank by a whopping 31% successful Q2 2026.

In the 2nd 4th of the year, the gaming concern lone made $779 million, compared to $1.1 cardinal successful Q2 2025, according to the company's latest net report. AMD attributes this nonaccomplishment to "lower semi-custom revenue," which means less consoles person been selling implicit the past fewer months. This is successful a clip that would person included the Steam Machine and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE successful June 2026.

AMD's gaming gross is lumped into the Client and Gaming segment, and overall, that information of the concern was up 6% twelvemonth implicit year, making $3.8 billion. AMD's processors person been making their mode into much modern laptops, particularly successful the fund range, and portion the company's net study doesn't laic retired precisely which products were selling, it's not hard to ideate that a batch of this maturation came astatine the hands of fund laptops that don't person a ton of RAM.

But portion the gaming concern isn't doing each that great, AMD is thriving. The institution raked successful $11.5 cardinal successful gross past quarter, which is up 51% implicit this clip past year, driven mostly by AI. AMD's information halfway concern brought successful $6.7 cardinal past quarter, which is simply a monolithic 107% summation implicit past year. So, adjacent though hardware is much costly and harder to adjacent obtain, AMD is bringing successful much wealth than ever before.

It's apt that the gaming concern volition proceed to shrink implicit the adjacent twelvemonth oregon so, portion AMD cashes successful connected the AI boom. Especially present that the Xbox Series X officially went up successful terms and some Team Green and Team Red reportedly program to rise prices connected gaming hardware, it truly does look similar gaming hardware is going to proceed to autumn down the database of AMD and Nvidia's priorities.

Jackie Thomas is the Hardware and Buying Guides Editor astatine IGN and the PC components queen. You tin travel her @Jackiecobra