Nvidia may need taken a battering when it comes to falling gross sales lately, however right here’s some higher information for Crew Inexperienced: a considerable uptick in its market share, with the agency remaining by far the dominant discrete (standalone) GPU energy. Moreover, the RTX 3060 seems to be shifting a severely wholesome quantity of items proper now.

First up, let’s have a look at these market share figures from analyst agency Jon Peddie Analysis (opens in new tab) (JPR), as noticed by Wccftech (opens in new tab).

The statistics for Q2 of this 12 months present Nvidia with a 79% market share, a chunky uptick of 4% in comparison with Q1, with AMD falling from 24% to 20% in the identical interval. Intel has the remaining 1% of the market with its new Arc discrete GPUs, so Crew Blue is now making very slight inroads into the desktop graphics card scene.

In comparison with the identical quarter final 12 months, Nvidia finds itself just about in the identical place: Crew Inexperienced had an 80% share in Q2 2021, and now has 79%, shedding that single share level to Intel (AMD was on 20% a 12 months in the past, and stays on 20% as famous).

Moreover, as Eteknik (opens in new tab) flagged up, wanting on the newest Steam {hardware} survey (opens in new tab) (for August), one GPU which appears to be gathering some critical gross sales momentum and serving to Nvidia’s trigger is the RTX 3060.

The RTX 3060 desktop graphics card is now in sixth place within the general gross sales rankings for Steam players, with a strong 0.66% improve in August, giving it an general market share of three.24%. It’s narrowly behind the 3060 laptop computer GPU which is in fifth place on 3.39%.

So, in case you add these collectively, you truly get 6.63%, which technically makes the RTX 3060 (each desktop and laptop computer) extra widespread than the top-ranked GTX 1060, which is on 6.6% (after experiencing a reasonably hefty drop of 0.52% this month).

All the prime 10 GPUs – that are all Nvidia fashions – fell in recognition, in truth, aside from these RTX 3060 playing cards, and the RTX 3070 in tenth place which ticked up a marginal 0.03%.

Evaluation: Some solace for Nvidia amidst robust occasions

As we talked about on the outset, Nvidia has had a rocky time with falling ranges of GPU shipments of late, with softening demand compounded by an unlucky state of affairs whereby the agency has overproduced RTX 3000 inventory.

What the stats from JPR present is that everybody is having a tricky time of it, with general discrete graphics card shipments being down 22% compared to the earlier quarter. Nvidia can at the very least take some solace from clawing again its dominant place in Q2 in comparison with Q1, and the robust progress of the RTX 3060 is a constructive signal, too.

What’s extensively predicted to occur within the very close to future is additional value cuts for Nvidia GPUs – and AMD graphics playing cards too, as Crew Purple additionally needs to clear current-gen inventory earlier than next-gen merchandise arrive later this 12 months – and that ought to stoke the fires of RTX 3000 gross sales additional.

Up to now, we’ve solely seen the large discounting with the higher-end Nvidia graphics playing cards – the RTX 3090 and its Ti model, and the RTX 3080 Ti particularly – however value cuts are very prone to trickle down the vary additional. Whether or not or not they’ll attain so far as the RTX 3060, properly, that’s unclear, and what we now have to recollect is that its successor, the RTX 4060, isn’t on the horizon (not but). Whereas the RTX 4070 and upwards positively are, at the very least in principle, even when the rumor mill reckons there might be one thing of a extra pronounced staggered launch, with larger gaps than regular between these higher-end next-gen fashions.

All of which is to say that the value of the RTX 3060 could not see a lot motion, however nonetheless, even some small drops in value tags may hearth up gross sales of this mid-range GPU additional, on prime of its already obvious good progress over the previous month. This graphics card may nonetheless play a key half for Nvidia even when the next-gen Lovelace launch is properly underway, on condition that we’re in no way certain when the 4060 would possibly arrive. And even after the 4060 does debut, the 3060 may properly hold round as a lower-priced various (Crew Inexperienced has already talked a few launch timeframe that may ‘layer’ the 2 generations of GPUs collectively).

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