AMD Is Losing More GPU Market Share to NVIDIA
RJ Pierce, Tech Times
27 August 2021, 11:08 am
AMD might be giving Intel some trouble in the CPU space, but they still seem not to be able to upend NVIDIA in the graphics card market.
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A group of PC graphics cards, including (L-R) a Zotac GeForce GTX 1060 AMP Edition, MSI Radeon RX 470 Gaming X 8G and an AMD Radeon RX 480 8GB, taken on July 22, 2016.
According to a report by PC Gamer, roughly eight out of ten discrete graphics cards that gamers own are from NVIDIA. AMD has seen its share of the discrete GPU market decrease to 17% during the second quarter of this year. This is down from the previous quarter's 19%, and again down from a high of 20% from Q1 2020. The data comes from a report from the market research firm Jon Peddie Research.
Simply put, for every bit of market share that AMD loses, NVIDIA gains something from it. And according to the latest numbers from the Steam Hardware Survey, it's also quite obvious. Team Green still owns a massive 75.41% market share compared to AMD's measly 15.31%. The remaining 9.28% is Intel integrated graphics.
And since NVIDIA still controls most of the GPU market, this can also contribute to specific gaming technologies going in their favor. AMD has been the second-fiddle in two next-gen gaming tech: real-time ray tracing and AI-powered supersampling during the past few years. The large market share that AMD's competition maintains might mean that developer support for these technologies will be a priority.
For the foreseeable future, one can now expect to see more NVIDIA cards than AMD ones. Unless, of course, Team Red does something great with their RDNA3 chips, which are rumored to release alongside Zen 4 CPUs in late 2022.
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