The GPU market as it is today is admittedly not the best looking right now, with NVIDIA getting so far ahead to the point that it effectively is a green monopoly. Jon Peddie Research’s data confirms that sentiment, with the chipmaker now occupying a staggering 94% of the desktop AIB market.
NVIDIA’s GPU Monopoly
At this time last year, NVIDIA enjoys a 88% market share of the desktop GPU market; this is further increased to 92% last quarter, to 94% today. On the contrary, AMD had 12% of the market share last year, which went down to just 8% in the previous quarter, and further eroded down to 6% today. Throughout this period, Intel has no meaningful market share to speak of.
All of these proved that despite AMD and Intel’s best efforts, they aren’t making a dent to the sheer market power and output volume GeForce-branded cards possess. The discrepancy is made further in no small part thanks to NVIDIA’s successful marketing of RTX graphics, along with subsequent AI-powered technologies that both AMD and Intel had to play catch up.
To be fair to Radeon though, at least it isn’t selling less cards than before: owing to a 27% overall market growth from last quarter (totaling 11.6 million units shipped), both brands gets to sell more cards overall – it just so happens that NVIDIA outsells AMD by a margin so big that it further shrinks Team Red’s share of the pie. Still, that’s a pretty grim look at today’s GPU market state, and it hardly looks like either AMD or Intel has any proper answer anytime soon.
Pokdepinion: It just reminds me of the dark days of 2010s CPU market. At this rate, we need a miracle for things to change.
