This is a enjoyable reality contained within the report: Players, graphics designers, and different patrons have spent $476 billion on greater than 2.1 billion graphics playing cards because the first quarter of 2001. As factors of reference, playing cards like NVIDIA’s GeForce2 GTS, 3dfx’s Voodoo 5 5500, and ATI’s Rage Fury MAXX have been a few of the notable GPUs again firstly of that time-frame.
Traditionally, second quarter add-in board (AIB) shipments have averaged a 9.7% sequential decline previously 10 years. Within the second quarter of 2023, nonetheless, JPR’s auditing reveals a stunning 2.9% improve, which is a reasonably large swing over the norm.
“The robustness of the second quarter was higher than forecasted because the older stock appears to be lastly cleared out and a few board suppliers have been providing decrease costs. The demand reveals that the AIB market remains to be very wholesome and vibrant. New video games, most noteworthy being Starfieldstimulate demand for brand spanking new boards that may exploit all of the richness of those video games. Q3 appears prefer it too can be up; that is very encouraging for the PC trade on the whole,” stated Dr. Jon Peddie, president of JPR.
Broadening the image reveals a extra sophisticated panorama, which is not all that surprising when you think about the market is rising from a multi-year world pandemic and cryptocurrency gold rush, each of which contributed to a widespread silicon scarcity.
In comparison with final quarter, the 6.4 million AIBs shipped in Q3 of 2023 represents a large 36.3% decline. Nevertheless, that determine is up from 6.26 million models within the earlier quarter. It is considerably problematic to attract conclusions based mostly on how present figures examine to final 12 months’s numbers, nevertheless it should not be ignored, both.
Whole AIB share and shipments
As for the market share breakdown, NVIDIA is means out forward with an 80% share of the AIB market. That is down from 84% within the earlier quarter, however up from 78% from the identical quarter a 12 months in the past.
AMD, in the meantime, claims a 17% share of the AIB market. That is up from 12% within the earlier quarter however down from 20% a 12 months in the past.
