Even without Navi AMD is gaining GPU market share… just not from Nvidia
The Computex 2019 trade show has been dominated by AMD this year. Try as they might to talk Nvidia Studio or Intel Ice Lake or Project Athena it’s the announcement of Ryzen 3000 processors and Navi RX 5000 graphics cards that has got the PC tech world excited. But even leading up to the launch of the red team’s new GPUs AMD is posting graphics card market share gains, though surprisingly not at the expense of Nvidia.
The new Q1 2019 GPU report, from the number-crunching funsters over at Jon Peddie Research, makes for pretty good reading for AMD. Well… so long as you ignore the bit about overall GPU shipments falling by 19% compared with the end of last year anyway.
As well as showing a 21% gain in desktop GPU shipments in the first quarter of this year, despite Q1 traditionally being a relatively quiet period in graphics card sales, AMD has also shown a 2.3% GPU market share increase. You might naturally expect that to have come at the expense of long-time rivals, Nvidia, but they’re not the ones suffering… it’s Intel.
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