AMD shipped 9.85 percent more GPUs compared to the previous quarter, Nvidia’s shipment numbers remained mostly flat, and Intel shipped 1.44 percent fewer GPUs.
The overall GPU market for the PC was up 9.25 percent compared to the previous quarter and witnessed a gain of almost 3.1 percent year-on-year.
Discrete graphics card shipments dropped by 16.6 percent compared to Q1, and a hefty 39.7 percent year-on-year, a slump that’s most likely still tied in with the implosion of the market for crypto-mining GPUs, which is seemingly continuing to make its effects felt at least to some extent as we progress through 2019.
However, while that was miserable AMD saw a big gain in market share in the discrete market.
AMD moved up to a 32.1% share of the discrete GPU market, which represents a big upward swing of nearly 10% – AMD’s share was 22.7% last quarter. Nvidia, of course, owns the rest of the market, meaning it’s currently on 67.9%.
Nvidia’s discrete market share was a colossal 81.2% last year according to Jon Peddie. So there has been quite a shift towards AMD throughout.
Competitive APUs may have helped AMD in the laptop market. As for discrete, perhaps bargain-basement graphics cards (like the RX 570, for example, which has seen some tempting deals in recent times) are helping drive some of this momentum.
What must be putting the fear of god into Nvidia is that AMD’s discrete success hasn’t been driven by Navi, as those GPUs weren’t on sale in the timeframe of Jon Peddie’s Q2 report.
