Agency , which has been tracking the state of the discrete video card market since 1981, at the end of last month compiled a report on the second quarter of this year. Over the past period, 7,4 million discrete video cards were shipped for a total of about $2 billion. It is easy to determine that the average cost of one video card slightly exceeded $270. At the end of last year, video cards were sold for a total of $16,4 billion, and by 2023 the market capacity will decrease to $11 billion. According to the authors of the study, the discrete video card market reached its peak in 1999, since 114 million video cards were shipped then each computer had its own graphics card. Since then, video card sales have steadily declined over the long term.
The market has long been a duopoly, although Intel plans to shake it up next year with its discrete graphics cards. So far, we can observe how the segment of discrete video cards is divided in unequal proportions by AMD and NVIDIA. According to Jon Peddie Research statistics for the last quarter, AMD was able to increase its share from 22,7% to 32,1% in a consistent comparison. The increase in the share was almost 41%, but it is premature to attribute it to the success of the Radeon RX 5700 family, because video cards of this series went on sale already in the third quarter, which is not yet covered by statistics. Apparently, the growth in popularity of AMD products was facilitated by marketing campaigns in the first half of the year. In addition, Jon Peddie Research also takes into account sales of discrete graphics in the server segment, and AMD itself has recently been talking about a significant increase in demand for its specialized accelerators.
Accordingly, NVIDIA decreased its discrete graphics market share from 77,3% to 67,9% in sequential comparison. If we talk about the same period last year, then the share of AMD then reached 36,1%, and NVIDIA was content with 63,9%. Let's not forget that in the second quarter of last year, the so-called “cryptocurrency factor” still influenced the market, and AMD products were willingly purchased as a means of mining cryptocurrencies. But in the case of NVIDIA, we can talk about progress over the past year solely by gaming video cards.
The total number of video cards shipped in the second quarter decreased by 39,7% over the year, which eloquently illustrates the impact of the "crypto hangover". In sequential comparison, graphics card shipments decreased by 16,6%, slightly above the 10% average for the 16,4-year decline from QXNUMX to QXNUMX. It is noteworthy that the desktop PC market during this time grew by XNUMX%, so the negative dynamics of video card sales may indicate either pent-up demand in anticipation of new models, or the influence of some other factors.
Source: 3dnews.ru