Thursday, July 29th 2010
AMD Surpasses NVIDIA in Discrete Graphics Shipments
AMD has finally surpassed NVIDIA in terms of shipments of discrete graphics (graphics cards), according to market research firm Mercury Research, in a report released on Wednesday. AMD's discrete graphics products held 51% of the discrete graphics market, with NVIDIA slipping down to 49%, in terms of discrete graphics products shipments in Q2 2010. For the same quarter last year, the two were poised at 41% for AMD and 59% for NVIDIA, indicating a significant growth, fruition of AMD's DirectX 11 push of deploying a new-generation lineup that spans all price-points in a span of four months.
For the overall GPU industry, with integrated graphics included, the picture for Q2 2010 looks like Intel holding 54.3%, AMD holding 24.5%, and NVIDIA with 19.8%. Last year, in Q2 2009, NVIDIA held 29.6% versus AMD's 18.2%. NVIDIA's deployment of a DirectX 11 compliant GPU lineup has been rather slow, with only two GPUs and four SKUs deployed so far, starting at $199. NVIDIA does not have the fastest graphics card. On Wednesday, the Santa Clara based company warned that its revenue would fall short of earlier projections (set at the time of Fermi's launch). This announcement came after Apple announced a series-wide transition of graphics chips inside its Macbooks, iMac, and Mac Pro computers to AMD's ATI Radeon from NVIDIA GeForce.
Source:
CNET
For the overall GPU industry, with integrated graphics included, the picture for Q2 2010 looks like Intel holding 54.3%, AMD holding 24.5%, and NVIDIA with 19.8%. Last year, in Q2 2009, NVIDIA held 29.6% versus AMD's 18.2%. NVIDIA's deployment of a DirectX 11 compliant GPU lineup has been rather slow, with only two GPUs and four SKUs deployed so far, starting at $199. NVIDIA does not have the fastest graphics card. On Wednesday, the Santa Clara based company warned that its revenue would fall short of earlier projections (set at the time of Fermi's launch). This announcement came after Apple announced a series-wide transition of graphics chips inside its Macbooks, iMac, and Mac Pro computers to AMD's ATI Radeon from NVIDIA GeForce.
63 Comments on AMD Surpasses NVIDIA in Discrete Graphics Shipments
As for Nvidia having nothing to compete????? What's the bet that the 460 takes a vast amount of sales away from the likes of the 5830/5770 and perhaps even the 5850?
It's "only" 2% most probably because Nvidia's flooding markets with their "new" G 210, GT 220, GT 240, etc.
^ Personally i think that's going to hurt Nvidia alot as Mac is growing like wild fire lately and doesnt look like slowing down. Honestly i can see AMD continue to grow from here for awhile yet.
Anyone know what the market share ratio is currently?
Last I heard, which was long ago now, it was round ATi ~30%, nVidia ~70%.
EDIT: Nevermind... seen the numbers. That's what I get for reading just the headline then comments... :ohwell:
its not like nvidia is going to vanish overnight, its just that ATI is slowly gaining market share and making it an equal playing field.
Yea nvidia will be still a very strong competitor that's for sure, just the roles will be reversed for a little while, but for how long is the question?
but once thats said and done and things go back into balance, ATI will be higher than it was before this leap up occured (example: if they were 20% market share, now they'll be 25%)