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A new metric gives the energy for each goal that an agent completes

With GPU energy included, agent workflows use 0.4 to 26.48 times the energy of linear workflows.

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Agentic workflows used up to 26.48x the energy of linear ones Bars on one scale: linear 1x, CPU only 11.07x, with GPU 26.48x. A calculator task came out at 0.61x, less than linear. Orchestration Overhead Index Agentic vs linear, per goal 26.48x worst of nine task families 1x = same energy Linear CPU only With GPU 1x 11.07x 26.48x Calculator task: 0.61x less than linear
Across nine task families, agentic workflows used up to 26.48x the energy per successful goal of linear ones, once GPU energy was counted.

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  1. Energy per Successful Goal: Goal-Level Energy Accounting for Agentic AI Systemsarxiv.org
AI MATTER · NEWS · AI MATTER · NEWS ·14 OCT2026

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