“Nvidia reaches 80 percent market share for graphics cards”

Anyone who is interested in how the PC market is doing and how things are going for the companies in this market can get their appetite saturated by analysis companies. One of the large companies in this industry is Jon Peddie Research, which among other things summarizes statistics for the PC market per quarter. The summary of the second quarter of the year contains interesting information about the industry as a whole, and a particularly large player.

The information comes from the Market Watch market report, compiled by Videocardz. The statistics for the second quarter of 2020 show that the previous trend of a growing PC market continues, with a certainly small increase of 0.68 per cent compared with the previous quarter but an even larger increase of 12.65 per cent for the whole year. The positive trends are also evident in graphics cards, as the component category grew by 2.5 percent compared with the previous quarter.

In terms of its players, AMD increased the number of graphics cards shipped by 8.4 percent. Nvidia’s biggest competitor increased by as much as 17.8 percent, while Intel’s current concerns are reflected in the fact that the number of graphics products shipped decreased by 2.7 percent. Sales of dedicated graphics cards increased by 6.55 percent compared to the previous quarter. The statistics on the graphics card makers’ market shares show that Nvidia’s success does not stop there.

During the second quarter of 2020, Nvidia’s dedicated graphics cards accounted for a solid 80 percent of graphics cards sold, while AMD accounted for the remaining 20 percent. This is an increase of 5 percentage points from the previous quarter for Nvidia’s part, and an increase of 9 percentage points compared to the second quarter of 2019. As Intel has not yet launched the dedicated graphics cards on the Xe architecture, the company has no presence in these statistics yet.

The pandemic has been disruptive and had varying effects on the market. Some sales that might have occurred in Q3 (such as notebooks for the back-to-school season) have been pulled in to Q2 while desktop sales declined. Intel’s manufacturing challenges have also negatively affected desktop sales.

We believe the stay at home orders have continued to increase demand in spite of the record-setting unemployment levels. As economies open up, consumer confidence will be an important metric to watch.

According to Jon Peddie Research’s CEO, Jon Peddie himself, notes that two main factors affected sales in the PC market during the past quarter. On the one hand, the corona pandemic has unexpectedly had a major effect on the market, where certain sales that normally take place in the third quarter have now taken place earlier in the year. Intel’s manufacturing problems with associated delayed products are also said to have had a greater impact on statistics.

Finally, the report also reflects on the coming quarter, where graphics card makers increase expectations by 12 percent. Nvidia looks set to further strengthen its dominant position with this autumn’s launch of the graphics cards in the Geforce RTX 3000 “Ampere” series, while AMD hopes to be able to shake up its competitor’s success with graphics cards on the RDNA 2 architecture.

Intel, for its part, hopes to allay concerns with the launch of “Tiger Lake” processors for laptops. The first graphics cards on the Xe architecture, with the family name Xe-HPG, will not be launched until next year and can not save the company’s statistics in 2020.

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