Nvidia Graphics Chip Market Share Nosedives
It isn't unusual to see shifts in graphics market share from quarter to quarter as we know that the timing of the introductions of new graphics products can dramatically impact the market position of any graphics chip developer.
However, at first sight, it appears that Nvidia has been hit especially hard in the first quarter of this year. The company's shipments were down 28.4% year-over-year, according to Jon Peddie Research (JPR). Nvidia's overall market share dropped to 20.0%, down from 28.0% in Q1 2010.
AMD was able to post 15.4% growth and increase its market share from 21.5% to 24.8%. Intel was also able to gain share at Nvidia's expense and jumped again across the 50% mark - from 49.6% to 52.5%, JPR estimates. Matrox, SiS, and Via/S3 do not play major roles in the global GPU market anymore.
The first quarter of this year was somewhat special as the overall shipment climbed against the seasonal trend by 10.7% from Q4. Nvidia, however, saw its shipments decline by 1.7%, while AMD climbed by 13.3% and Intel by 14.2%. Of course, AMD is currently capitalizing on its Fusion processor, which appears to be boosting graphics chip shipments overall. JPR principal analyst Jon Peddie told me also noted that Nvidia's decline is due to the fact that the company has exited the embedded and integrated graphics chip market. In its discrete business, Nvidia actually did well. the company held a 59.1% market share in desktop discrete graphics (AMD: 40.5%) and 41.7% in notebook discrete graphics (AMD: 58.3%).
The unknown variable in this game will be Nvidia's success in the tablet space, especially when Windows 8 will be moving to the ARM platform. There are also some open questions about Nvidia Tegra smartphones, which could reach levels that easily surpass traditional GPU shipments for the PC. Peddie noted that Nvidia is rather shy in this respect and does not reveal any numbers about this segment yet.
Which they no doubt left for a reason and must be a good one at that.
Go ahead and sell as I buy.
They don't make a lot off of the tegras. The chips are cheap to produce and have to remain cheap to be sold in such quantity, nevermind the insane competition when it comes to ARM nowadays. Their GPUs price/performance is coming in 2nd best to AMD.
Project denver and the new line of GPUs better be absolutely mind-blowing, otherwise this trend will continue.
It was a very good reason, they could not compete. And in the tablet space they face stiff competition from PowerVR whose tile based architecture is faster and more power efficient than traditional z-buffered approach preferred by Nvidia and AMD. At least have an ARM license to fall back on so they have somewhere to retreat to when the Bulldozer arrives.
Onboard graphics on most low end PC's netbooks and motherboards. 50% by unit, not by value.
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The last time I had a Nvidia card, the driver was so bad that it was almost unusable... since then, AMD baby...
You are such a fanboy! Everyone knows AMD drivers are the worst and Nvidia are the best. As far as cards go...both are good but the drivers Nvidia wins hands down!
This is mostly because most consumers, including many IT managers who make the buying decisions, are, quite simply, idiots. They don't realize just how many problems they'll have with driver issues and program compatibility. They just think cheap="good enough". So many people just don't realize that you get what you pay for, and paying a little more to get good quality is well worth the investment.
You just need to buy like 1,000,000 more for everyone in your state to help Nvidia's market share.
Not to mention the fact I've never had an amd/ati card fail on me. Yet both nvidia cards I've owned have. Now you can blame the manufacter, but if nvidia allows it's name on it at the end of the day it's their fault.
Now with all that said I will admit my bias. I will never buy another nvidia even though I know that both amd and nvidia make good and bad cards.
I've had both sides. When trouble starts coming up, I switch to the other vendor until they start showing trouble. My ATI issues started with the Radeon 9700, so I switched to a Geforce 6800. I went with Nvidia until I started having trouble with the 7800 drivers, so I bought a Radeon 4870X2. That worked until the 10.1 drivers came out, so I bought two GTX470s. Those gave me issues with the 268 drivers, but I had worse problems getting the Radeons to work on family computers, so I stuck with Nvidia cards for my server and my HTPC. (The Radeons left this huge black border around my screen, and I couldn't get it to go away. The G210 and GT430 are great with my TV. Yes, my server is hooked to my TV, but only so that I can directly work with it if I have to.)
However, my dad's HTPC and TV worked better with a Radeon, so the one I left in his HTPC is a 4650. It has issues with Bluray playback, but he doesn't use it for that much. He uses it for Netflix and Skype calls to see his youngest grandson.
Most companies don't need dedicated graphics cards, which is exactly why they buy systems with Intel's integrated graphics. If all your company does is work in MS Office or Corel Office, it's impossible to justify the increased cost of a dedicated graphics card. The only time the cost of a dedicated graphics card can be justified in a business environment is if the company works with graphics.
Sounds more like you're the fanboy. Considering the countless number of complaints of stuttering with Fermi cards that come and go with different drivers....You might want to look at actual facts. Also, nVidia's overall support has been going downhill....
The big stat I notice is discrete graphics which I would assume most of us really care about - unless you love on-board graphics and would never be caught building a new unit without those "big clunky video card addons". Here, NVIDIA still whoops some booty with 60% share to AMD's 40%.
All the competition is good guys. All that matters is that some R&D guy sees the other company with a new product at x/$ with y/performance and figuring out how to leap past that with something that will sell.
From my own personal experience you are absolutely correct.