Nvidia has by no means had a tighter maintain on the GPU market, taking a look at new figures representing the battle of the discrete graphics playing cards from a widely known analyst agency.

Chances are you’ll be conversant in Jon Peddie Analysis (JPR), and the corporate’s newest report on the GPU enviornment for Q3 2022 emerged earlier this week, displaying a savage drop in gross sales as we reported on the time. However now, we’ve received a fuller vary of figures displaying the state of the discrete (standalone) GPU market, and Nvidia’s supreme dominance therein.

Wccftech (opens in new tab) highlighted JPR’s breakdown of discrete GPU share which exhibits Nvidia with a mighty lead having secured 88% of the market in Q3, in comparison with simply 8% for AMD. Intel holds the remaining 4% share.

The general image is gloomy, as you would possibly count on, with discrete GPU gross sales dropping to simply 14 million items in Q3 – for comparability, in the identical quarter of 2021, 24 million graphics playing cards had been shifted. In order that’s a drop of 42% year-on-year, fairly a daunting decline, significantly when Q3 is generally a stronger quarter (with back-to-school gross sales, and the Vacation season coming into view).

Evaluation: Paying for the privilege of Nvidia

What’s critically telling right here is how the image has modified from the earlier quarter. In Q2 2022, Nvidia was nonetheless king of the GPU hill by a great distance, after all, however held an 80% share with AMD on 15% (and Intel on 5%). To see Nvidia shoot as much as an 88% share in Q3, and AMD’s market share minimize in half to eight% should be a critical fear for Crew Crimson.

Sure, that is purely specializing in discrete GPUs, so doesn’t inform the total story (with no accounting for laptop computer graphics playing cards or iGPUs), however as a snapshot of the desktop market, Nvidia must be more than happy with this.

Certainly, we’ve by no means seen Nvidia have such a dominant share within the JPR reviews in latest historical past. For shoppers, although, this clearly isn’t such a wholesome state of affairs.

Why not? As a result of Nvidia having such a powerful grip available on the market will buoy the corporate’s confidence that regardless of promoting GPUs at eye-watering costs today, people are nonetheless clearly joyful to pay for the privilege of proudly owning a Crew Inexperienced product.

And that’s a part of the explanation why, little doubt, Nvidia feels it will probably proceed to cost a critically chunky premium for its high-end graphics playing cards relating to the brand new Lovelace GPUs that not too long ago hit the cabinets. A specific working example is the RTX 4080, which despite the fact that it isn’t the flagship Lovelace product, has a value that’ll make you suppose in any other case (significantly the extra premium customized boards from third-party card makers, that are really exorbitant by way of their value/efficiency worth ratio).

So, what concerning the figures we would see for This autumn, when the gross sales of these Lovelace graphics playing cards come into play? (Bear in mind, these weren’t out there in Q3, so aren’t mirrored within the present stats). From what we’ve heard on the grapevine, Nvidia has shifted a good few high-end playing cards, and naturally, AMD doesn’t have its rival RDNA three GPUs out but (they gained’t seem till mid-December, and so can have a extra restricted affect on This autumn figures).

Which prompts the thought: might Nvidia really attain a 90% stage of dominance for This autumn? It appears completely doable, and probably completely worrying that this would possibly encourage Crew Inexperienced to suppose all is okay with its desktop GPU pricing, and it will probably forge forward with MSRPs for the Lovelace vary which can be distinctly lower than wallet-friendly.

As a last word, it’s additionally attention-grabbing to see that Intel’s discrete GPU share is now a comparatively substantial quantity (and was in Q2, to be truthful), given how early it’s within the recreation for Arc graphics playing cards. Maybe that is an angle the place GPU pricing competitivity could be pushed additional sooner or later, significantly as Intel is making headway with frequently refining its drivers – we will however hope that Crew Blue would possibly present a problem on this entrance as time goes on.

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