Modern PC gaming may not be the most energy efficient hobby. Even as someone who would sooner play yesteryear's favourite over this month's shiniest new game, I dread to think just how much smaller my electricity bill might be if it wasn't for my gaming rig. Thankfully for retro gaming fiends, energy efficient hardware isn't hard to come by.
Case in point, hardware creator Alejandro Villegas Alonso shared a clip of classic Tomb Raider running from a low-power chip. The SoC in question is the ESP32-P4 microcontroller, a lightweight 32-bit RISC-V processor featuring two 400 MHz cores which sips a mere 1 watt of energy according to the data sheet (via Tom's Hardware).
It's not the kind of chip that would usually be used for anything like gaming, rather more for simple tasks...
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