Jon Peddie Research, the industry’s market research firm for the graphics industry, has released its Q1 2018 market report. According to the report, year-to-year total GPU shipments increased 3.4%, desktop graphics increased 14% and notebooks decreased -3%. And even though AMD has slightly increased its GPU market share, overall GPU shipments decreased -10% from last quarter (AMD decreased -6%, Nvidia decreased -10%, and Intel decreased -11%).
As said AMD increased its market share again this quarter benefitting from new products for workstations, and crypto-currency mining, while Nvidia held steady. On the other hand, Intel’s market share slightly decreased, although it remains the dominant GPU maker.
Over three million add-in boards (AIBs) were sold to cryptocurrency miners worth $776 million in 2017. In this first quarter, an additional 1.7 million were sold.
The attach rate of GPUs (includes integrated and discrete GPUs) to PCs for the quarter was 140% which was up 5.75% from last quarter. Discrete GPUs were in 39.11% of PCs, which is up 2.23%, the overall PC market decreased -14.12% quarter-to-quarter and increased 0.46% year-to-year.
Last but not least, desktop graphics add-in boards (AIBs) that use discrete GPUs increased 6.39% from last quarter.
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Well deserved for AMD,F*** for Intel though…
Stop pestering with Intel data, who cares about IGP!
Personally I don’t care about IGP but for a lot of people that’s all they need for the kind of games they play.
What will interest me the most is Intel’s future offerings. It’s fairly certain that they are expanding into the discrete GPU market. Whether they will offer gaming GPUs to compete with Nvidia and AMD isn’t known right now but I’m hoping they do. I like Nvidia GPUs and have been using them for 11 years now but they need a major player like Intel to give them competition.
I wouldn’t mind seeing Intel buy RTG from AMD and invest some of the billions of dollars in cash that they are just sitting on and give Nvidia a serious fight.
I’m sure given Nvidia’s latest antics, that share may rise a little more this quarter and next.
All this shows is PCMR is flooded with people with less GPU power then a modern day console.
That is great new for AMD.