Gaming Made Up Simply 6% of AMD’s Earnings This Quarter

It’s no secret that gaming {hardware} has been getting costlier this 12 months, so it should not be stunning that individuals are shopping for much less of it. But, it seems that AMD’s gaming enterprise shrank by a whopping 31% in Q2 2026.

In the second quarter of the 12 months, the gaming enterprise solely made $779 million, in comparison with $1.1 billion in Q2 2025, in accordance with the company’s latest earnings report. AMD attributes this loss to “lower semi-custom revenue,” which implies fewer consoles have been promoting over the previous couple of months. This is in a time that will have included the Steam Machine and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE in June 2026.

AMD’s gaming income is lumped into the Client and Gaming phase, and general, that portion of the enterprise was up 6% 12 months over 12 months, making $3.8 billion. AMD’s processors have been making their approach into extra trendy laptops, particularly within the finances vary, and whereas the corporate’s earnings report does not lay out precisely which merchandise had been promoting, it isn’t exhausting to think about that plenty of this development got here by the hands of finances laptops that do not have a ton of RAM.

But whereas the gaming enterprise is not doing all that nice, AMD is prospering. The firm raked in $11.5 billion in income final quarter, which is up 51% over this time final 12 months, pushed largely by AI. AMD’s knowledge heart enterprise introduced in $6.7 billion final quarter, which is an enormous 107% enhance over final 12 months. So, though {hardware} is costlier and tougher to even receive, AMD is bringing in more cash than ever earlier than.

It’s probably that the gaming enterprise will proceed to shrink over the following 12 months or so, whereas AMD cashes in on the AI growth. Especially now that the Xbox Series X formally went up in worth and each Team Green and Team Red reportedly plan to boost costs on gaming {hardware}, it actually does appear to be gaming {hardware} goes to proceed to fall down the checklist of AMD and Nvidia’s priorities.

Jackie Thomas is the Hardware and Buying Guides Editor at IGN and the PC elements queen. You can observe her @Jackiecobra