Main PC market analysis outfit JPR has dropped its newest knowledge dump (opens in new tab). Aside from exhibiting that discrete graphics playing cards shipments cratered by 50% (opens in new tab) on the finish of final 12 months, JPR’s knowledge additionally signifies that Intel now matches AMD for discrete graphics playing cards numbers.
Each firms had 9% of the market within the 4th quarter of 2022, with Nvidia dominating the graphics card market on 82%. For readability, that is for discrete GPU and add-in graphics card shipments, excluding built-in graphics and embedded graphics.
In case you embrace built-in and embedded graphics, Intel had 71% of the market, Nvidia 17% and AMD 12%.
Maybe much more outstanding, JPR’s numbers present Intel on 5% of the discrete GPU market as way back as This fall of 2021. That really implies Intel shipped extra add-in GPUs (versus the built-in GPUs that include all of their CPUs) in This fall 2021 than This fall 2022.
In case you’re questioning how that works, given Intel wasn’t promoting any Arc graphics playing cards (opens in new tab) that far again, there are just a few points to notice. First, JPR’s numbers point out GPU shipments, not gross sales. If one assumes GPUs are shipped after which offered, and certainly that not all GPUs which can be shipped are essentially offered, then it is potential to know how Intel managed 5% as way back as the top of 2021.
Again then, Intel was possible manufacturing and delivery these early DG1 graphics desktop boards (opens in new tab), together with Xe Max devoted graphics chips for laptops. These GPUs, very possible, clarify Intel’s earlier market share.
After all, what the numbers additionally present is Nvidia’s continued dominance in gaming graphics. It is all too simple to see AMD and Nvidia as roughly equally protagonists within the combat for graphics efficiency supremacy.
That is why it is also too simple to fall into the lure of being disillusioned when AMD steadily fails to take that combat totally to Nvidia. However when you think about the fact of how uneven that combat actually is, possibly AMD does not do too badly, in any case.
Then again, if Intel has managed to match it for unit shipments courtesy of the underwhelming first-gen Arc GPUs, that does not say loads for AMD, does it? Anyway, it is going to be very fascinating to see how this three-way battle performs out within the new few years.