The announcement of GeForce GTX 4xx video card, according to NVIDIA representatives, must allow the company to return in the graphic market segment.
However, in the first quarter, Mercury research analysts revealed a reduction in the portion of graphic market, controlled by NVIDIA company. If we take entire graphic market, including the discrete and integrated solutions, then here NVIDIA lost 4,8%. For AMD company within the same period, it was possible to increase its portion by 2,8%.
In the segment of discrete graphical solutions the loss of NVIDIA was more noticeable - 8,2% it wholly yielded AMD company, which now controls 42,1% of market. Experts connect this with the popularity of video cards radeon HD 48xx and Radeon HD 58xx, the announcement of eyefinity technology and the advance of AMD vision platform.
In the segment of mobile discrete graphical solutions AMD increased its portion by 9%, and now it controls 49,7% of market.