JPR: AMD leads NVIDIA by 8% in Q4 GPU marketshare

[caveman-jim]

Jon Peddie Research's new MarketWatch for Q4 graphics shows AMD making some big gains courtesy of their APU strategy:

• AMD had huge 44.8% desktop double digit growth in its HPU shipments, and even good growth in their desktop IGPs. However, like Intel, its overall quarter results were down due to declining notebook sales. AMD’s overall quarter to quarter results showed a -3.4% drop.
• Year to year this quarter Intel gained about 7% market share, AMD gained 2.6%, and Nvidia slipped -7% in the overall market partially due to the company withdrawing from the integrated segments.

AMD showed the smallest decrease in unit shipment, where all others were in double-digit decreases from the shrinking market.

While Intel still leads overall GPU marketshare, standing at 59.1% for Q4, AMD is a strong 24.8% to NVIDIA's 15.7%. NVIDIA exited the integrated markets, partially accounting for their drop.

Read the report excerpt here.

[Sound_Card]

BUT THEY GOTZ THE 50% MARGINS!1!!.

It's about to get a whole lot lower in a year or so. All 3 consoles reported to be AMD graphics, and the market is starved for something fresh and new in the console market. Basically I'm predicting next gen will be a lot bigger than this gen.

On top of that, I don't see Nvidia's entry level add in boards existing too much longer. APU's are going to eat it up.

Makes you wonder without entry level add in boards and no presence in consoles, developers will be coding to pretty much one common denominator vendor. AMD. And since low to mid range graphics are generally scaled down extensions of the high end, in theory this could have profound long term effects down the road. Especially if the consoles are similar shader engines and AMD sticks with the same layout through out the entire next generation.

[Crisler]

nVidia is shifting their focus, while I think they will stay strong in the discrete GPU market they are really putting a push on the mobile chip market.

These numbers are good for AMD but reflect a lot about the decision by nVidia to move into the mobile market full force.

AMD has a chance right now with Fusion to create a solid place for itself and I have said before they need to stop worrying about trying to push out the high end chips and put their eggs into the Fusion basket and make their push there.

[madyasiwi]

Nvidia is exiting the integrated graphics segments and shifting focus to discrete GPUs. The company showed good desktop discrete market share gain (3.7% qtr-qtr), and 0.1% in notebooks.

Raden 7000 series launched and yet NVidia gaining discrete marketshare

I guess they don't really need to be hurry with Kepler...

[caveman-jim]

Raden 7000 series launched and yet NVidia gaining discrete marketshare

I guess they don't really need to be hurry with Kepler...

You do know that Q4 was before the 7000 series shipped, right?

[caveman-jim]

AMD has a chance right now with Fusion to create a solid place for itself and I have said before they need to stop worrying about trying to push out the high end chips and put their eggs into the Fusion basket and make their push there.

It's pretty clear that's exactly what they're doing.

[noko]

Except AMD just seems to not be able to get enough of them made or fast enough.