When was the final time AMD’s graphics subdivision offered extra graphics playing cards than Nvidia? In response to information from trade analysts, the reply is approach again in 2005 when the corporate was referred to as ATI and had but to be acquired by AMD. Ouch.
However wait, there’s excellent news. Kinda. The newest information from JPR reveals AMD regaining some market share from Nvidia. Do not get too excited. The brand new figures put AMD at 17.5% of total desktop graphics card market share for the second quarter of 2023.
That is up from simply 12% for the primary quarter of the 12 months. Wind the clock again to Q2 of 2022 and AMD was on 20%. So it is nonetheless behind its modest efficiency relative to Nvidia one 12 months in the past. However AMD has additionally improved considerably from the all-time low (at the least when it comes to information going again to 2002) of only a 10% share within the third quarter of final 12 months.
Total, desktop graphics playing cards shipments had been up by 2% this quarter versus the primary quarter of the 12 months at 6.44 million. Nonetheless, they had been nonetheless down by a reasonably horrendous 38% versus the identical quarter in 2022.
However if you would like some actual ache, how about AMD’s laptop computer market share? AMD had simply 2.7% of the cell marketplace for discrete GPUs, with Nvidia on a ridiculous 94%. Even Intel managed 3.2%, which simply goes to point out how dangerous issues are for AMD in laptops.
In fact, these are all figures for discrete GPUs. AMD does significantly better in laptops once you think about built-in GPUs or iGPUs. And there, AMD is absolutely the one recreation on the town for iGPUs which might be worthy of, nicely, gaming.
AMD’s Phoenix APU with its highly effective RDNA 3 primarily based iGPU is the idea of a plethora of handheld gaming rigs, together with the Asus ROG Ally and makes for a good funds gaming chip for laptops, too. Intel does not supply something comparable and Nvidia does not do APUs in any respect and might solely supply discrete GPUs.
So, it is nonetheless a reasonably patchy image for PC graphics, each for the market as an entire and AMD. Volumes are nonetheless a fraction of what they had been a 12 months or so in the past and AMD nonetheless has a protracted to go to get again to what you would possibly name its historic norm of about 30 to 40% of the PC graphics card market.
Will the brand new Radeon RX 7700 XT and 7800 XT assist with that? Most likely a bit of bit. We’ll know extra when the 7800 XT formally launches on September sixth. However happening the knowledge AMD has launched, it is a respectable card however not the type of recreation changer to place AMD again on monitor to 40% market share.