The latest data from JPR shows AMD regaining some market share from Nvidia. Don’t get too excited. The new figures put AMD at 17.5% of overall desktop graphics card market share for the second quarter of 2023.
That’s up from just 12% for the first quarter of the year. Wind the clock back to Q2 of 2022 and AMD was on 20%. So it’s still behind its modest performance relative to Nvidia one year ago. But AMD has also improved significantly from the all-time low (at least in terms of data going back to 2002) of just a 10% share in the third quarter of last year.
Overall, desktop graphics cards shipments were up by 2% this quarter versus the first quarter of the year at 6.44 million. However, they were still down by a pretty horrendous 38% versus the same quarter in 2022.
I upgraded my ten-year-old gaming PC this year and switched from an Nvidia GPU to an AMD one. You’re welcome.
Same. It was price/performance this round, and some decent AMD sales drove that home. I’d love DLSS & ray-tracing, but they’re not worth the premium atm, especially with AMD slowly improving their ray-tracing performance in some newer games.
I ended up going all AMD for my build earlier this year. So I guess I’m partially responsible here…
