Experts Jon Peddie Research last week published excerpts from market research on discrete graphics cards, which formally divided between four players: AMD, NVIDIA, VIA / S3 and Matrox. However, the latter some time ago started using graphics processors AMD.
Indeed, in the third quarter the major players have divided the market of discrete graphics cards in the ratio of "81.1: 18.8" in favor of NVIDIA. There is a moderate AMD success : as compared to the second quarter (18%), the company managed to strengthen its market position. Accordingly, NVIDIA has given way to an opponent the same 0.8% of the market. However, when compared with the third quarter last year, while AMD boasted 28.4% of the market, and NVIDIA settled for 71.5% of the market. This year has been more successful for NVIDIA.
If we consider the quarterly dynamics, the volumes of discretegraphics cards sales increased by 27.6% - is significantly higher than the average for the last ten years, which is equal to 12.6%. AMD's this period of time was able to increase sales volumes of the discrete desktop graphics by 33.3%, and NVIDIA slightly behind with 26.4% growth.
The dynamics of sales of desktop video cards is contrary to the demand for desktop PCs classes, compared with the second quarter, the PC market grew by only 7.6%, and in the annual comparison it decreased by 8.9%. By the way, the volume of desktop video cards sales in the annual comparison also decreased by 3.8%.
It should be recognized that the capacity of the video card market in the long time interval is reduced. Last quarter, it sold just 12 million. Desktop discrete graphics cards. In the first quarter 2008, 63% of personal computers equipped with discrete graphics, but now this figure does not exceed 39%. Less demanding users are willing to use the integrated graphics. Market of discrete graphics card is almost entirely dependent on the demand created by gamers. Related Products :
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