If that's curved monitors, they will buy curved monitors.
I have had a 34-inch curved monitor from Samsung since 2018 as my primary display
It's done a tone of great job for me.
So, how was RX 7000 sales? How is AMD in the gaming market today?
They actually gained market share in DIY gaming after release of RX 7000 series, but recent drop in sales is largely contributed to weak console market which is saturated now, four years old and without new devices, so less money from APUs. Basically, for every 5 cards Nvidia sells, AMD sells one.
Discrete GPU market is slowly, but consistently getting smaller though. Let's take top-down approach. Discrete GPU sales hit a
historical global low in 2023, both from AMD and Nvidia. That's the first thing we need to know. It's slowly recovering, but it's nowhere near best years for either of the companies. There's an inevitable downward trend since 2005 and reasons for this are numerous: better APUs, better mobility iGPUs, higher prices of discrete GPUs, etc. Desktop GPUs are becoming relatively smaller market despite keeping similar revenue share.
Majority of discrete graphics cards are sold in laptop market, where Nvidia dominates more than in DIY dekstop. As the article below shows, 73% of global PC systems are laptops. So, most of what Nvidia sells is actually in laptops and not in desktop GPUs.
Sales of discrete desktop GPUs hit 8.1 million units in the first quarter.
www.tomshardware.com
Gaming market has also been changing and the most dominant gaming segment in the world are actually mobile phones, believe it or not. PC and console gaming have roughly enough revenue share and handhelds are somewhat picking up pace, but it's a snail pace in comparison to explosion in mobile phone gaming. This makes sense, as majority of people on this planet do not live in the West and cannot often afford seperate systems, but do everything on phones, including gaming. This market is bound to be twice as large as PC+consoles combined. So, paradoxically, it is ARM iGPUs from Qualcomm, MediaTek, Huawei and others that dominate in world gaming market, and Nvidia and AMD are only secondary players in much bigger game.
We should be mindful that laptop power requirements are shifting beneath our feet to become more stringent, climate change friendly, more sustainable and less wasteful, for example EU legislation mandating USB-C charging up to maximum 240W (PD 3.1 spec), to ever more efficient and performant CPUs and APUs. Any top gaming laptop entering EU in 2026 onwards will have to meet the standard. So, the whole industry got the message from legislators and are working towards this goal.
Both Nvidia and AMD have noticed those global trends and they are preparing adjustments and new approaches:
- AMD has withdrawn from laptop discrete GPUs and are designing Strix Point and Strix Halo offer with up to 40 CUs that would attempt to push Nvidia's class 50 and class 60 laptop cards out of more laptops in next couple of years, while using less power and space in entire laptop package.
- Nvidia will move to design ARM iGPU, possibly with MediaTek, as they are threatened to be pushed out of more laptops by multiple players: Qualcomm's Adreno iGPU, AMD's Strix Halo and its offspring, and Intel's iGPU based on Xe2 and future iterations (if Intel manages to scale up those iGPUs...).
- AMD seems to be putting all cards in development of powerful laptop and console APUs for gaming, which makes sense for this segment. Vast majority of global laptops do not have a discrete GPU, so companies will mostly compete on the quality of CPU and its integrated graphics, as this single chip gets the biggest sales numbers in most laptop designs. This strategy seems to be bringing fruit already, as Lisa Su declared that at least 150 designs with Strix have been commissioned. Today, we can see that majority of laptops that Asus announced for Computex are Strix Point laptops, some of which still have Nvidia discrete GPU, but this can easily shift in 2-3 years.
Would be perfect.
Ryzen 9 9950X: two disabled CCDs with 24 cores in total.
Ryzen 9 9900X: one full CCD with 16 cores.
Ryzen 7 9700X: one full CCD with lower clocks / lower TDP.
Ryzen 7 9700: one disabled CCD with 12 cores.
Ryzen 5 9600X: one disabled CCD with 12 cores in lower clocks / lower TDP.
Ryzen 5 9600: can be an APU with integrated GPU: 8 cores.
Ryzen 3 9400X: can be an APU with integrated GPU: 6 cores.
This is not ready and cannot look in this way, as 16 big core CCX/CCD does not exist.
Zen6 will have three different chiplets: 8C, 16c and 32c, so more combinations will be possible.
Also, current packaging does not allow for big and small core chiplets to be mixed on one die. They need to design a new package, as those two types of chiplets have different topology of GMI interconnects.
