Fortunately, the Agency Jon Peddie Research has published more understandable report, which relates to the desktop discrete graphics market. These statistics do not include integrated graphics CPU and discrete solutions for laptops. However, under the "discrete desktop graphics" refers to not only gaming video, but professional graphics cards, as well as computing accelerators based on GPU.
Now we see that AMD's market share not only grew during the quarter by more percentage points, and increased over the year from 18% to 29.9%. This is an obvious reversal of the trend, which is not attributed to seasonal fluctuations! At the same time, NVIDIA share fell to 70%, and last year it reached 81.9%. .
The demand for discrete video card does not decline as sharply as on desktop computers as a whole. Approximately 34% of new computers in the second quarter were equipped with discrete graphics cards. This is considerably less than in the first quarter of 2008 - when the figure was 63%. In the second quarter this year, the number of cards shipped decreased by 20.8% compared to the first quarter, but increased by 0.8% compared to the same period of the previous year. desktop market while increased by 2.5% in the quarterly comparison, but fell by 0.2% year on. As you can see, the video card and the PC moved in different directions.
According to the third illustration, the proportion of video cards sales volume and different price segments do not change too much, even in cases when the market sags. The "middle class" (Performance) here refers to the video card cost from $ 100 to $ 249. Radeon RX 480 at the end of the second quarter, did not have a significant impact on the balance of power , and about "Polaris effect" we will be able to judge only after the release of the report for the third quarter.
Our German colleagues have made a schedule that takes into account changes in AMD and NVIDIA market share over the past few years. The full version of the article can be found on the website 3DCenter, we just took the period from the beginning of 2012. Related Products :
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