Energy management in interactive and real time architectures have not been receiving much attention over the years, but this issue is likely to become important in the near future due to the increasing energy demand and consumption required by top-notch game applications (especially regarding the mobile and portable consoles).
However, these improvements come at a cost: increase of energy consumption. This has opened many new possibilities for interactive and real time systems, such as more sophisticated scene realism, more precise and complex artificial intelligence, and better physical simulations. CPUs and GPUs have been evolving rapidly over time regarding their capabilities and processing power.
