A few days ago, we reported – based on Jon Peddie Research’s quarterly discrete video card sales report for Q4 2017 – that PC gaming remains the primary driver for GPU sales. However, it appears that we missed an interesting detail about AMD’s market share. According to the report, AMD has managed to increase its market share to its highest point in the past three years.
Going into slightly more details, AMD’s discrete desktop graphics market share is up 6.5% from Q3 2017, increasing to 33.7%. On the other hand, NVIDIA’s discrete desktop graphics market share is down 6.5%, decreasing to 66.3%. NVIDIA remains the dominant company, however – and thanks to the miners – AMD has managed to increase its market share.
Kudos to AnandTech for sharing the following infographic from JPR’s report.
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well thats the only good thing miners did…gave some juices to AMD.
we need AMD to be alive to keep nvidia from monopolizing the gpu market.
ah and i wish the mining craze will die already im ok with my pc now and my gpu is still doing great but i hope by 2019 it will calm down
Yeah we really need some competition in the GPU market, we’ve finally got it in the CPU market but now we need AMD to be able to trade blows with Nvidia again.
To be competitive with nvidia that’s mean AMD have to fight two big battle at once. And that probably something that is not wise for AMD to do.
The thing is, for competition to actually work it’s stuff, we need AMD to actually target the middle and high end market, rather than purely putting a major focus on the low end users who want to stay low end forever.
i watercooled my 1080ti just to be safe for couple of years
I believe crypto mining is here to stay. Here’s why imho:
Last year was pretty much the last chance for big banks + industry conglomerates (hand in hand with politicians, lawmakers and governments) to cripple the mining and trading mania of cryptocurrencies/tokens/ICOs via major regulatory reforms. They pretty much failed at that and Bitcoin alone registered a x19 times value increase and total market cap of all cryptos skyrocketed to something like 650+ billion dollars…that’s like the GDP of Switzerland for pete’s sake! O_O.
At this point it’s like trying to halt the internet…not something you’d really want looking forward to the future of technological progress.
well thats the only good thing miners did…gave some juices to AMD.we need AMD to be alive to keep nvidia from monopolizing the gpu market.ah and i wish the mining craze will die already im ok with my pc now and my gpu is still doing great but i hope by 2019 it will calm down
and then AMD will cater more towards miner with their GPU design….that’s why despite having almost the same raw power with nvidia GP102 Vega can’t even compete with cut down version of GP102. like it or not nvidia still dominate the GPU market for gamer.
Good news for AyyMD!
Here’s hoping that revenue, with a little help from strong Ryzen sales, helps them compete better over the next few GPU generations. If that fails, we always have Intel’s upcoming discrete GPU’s to look forward to…I guess?
they know miner give them all those money so their next gen GPU will be even more optimize towards mining workloads. Vega already reflect this. just looking at raw performance alone Vega should be on par if not faster than nvidia GP102 and yet majority of the times Vega 64 only roughly compete with GP104.
also the reality is AMD is fighting two big battle. they can’t fight both and also win at both. now AMD is competitive again vs intel (even that because of intel own fault) but just look how behind they are against nvidia when it comes to performance.
miner boize at it again.
lmao thanks to miners else shtmd is irrelevant
I would love to se a new compaly to make new GPUs . Or atleast make miners only GPUs .
Mining
Should I buy a AMD equivalent to a GTX 1070 since nVidia card are so damn expensive? Let me know