AMD is outmaneuvering NVIDIA to appreciable impact within the battle of the current-gen graphics playing cards in accordance with some contemporary gross sales figures.
Okay, so we should deal with them with some warning, however these are the gross sales numbers from a big German retailer, MindFactory, which are sometimes referred to in making an attempt to gauge the recognition of CPUs and GPUs.
TechEpiphany provides the figures often on X (previously Twitter), and you’ll see the variety of graphics card items bought throughout week 45 of 2023 within the above tweet.
In complete, AMD headed the pack with 1,990 items shifted, with NVIDIA in second place on 1,585, and Intel languishing approach, approach again on 40 items.
Which means AMD has a 55% share, NVIDIA a 44% share (rounding), and Intel has the remaining 1% (ouch).
AMD truly bought 400 extra GPUs on this week than Group Inexperienced, although NVIDIA does claw slightly again in the case of income versus income, as a consequence of a median promoting worth which is 12% larger than Group Crimson. (Really, we’re stunned it wasn’t greater than that, actually).
If we take a look at the breakdown for gross sales of particular person GPUs, the most well-liked is AMD’s RX 7800 XT which shifted 755 items, adopted by NVIDIA’s best-selling providing the RTX 4070, though that mid-range Lovelace product was fairly a way behind on 430 items.
AMD’s 7900 XTX is in third place on 270 items, then we now have the RTX 3060 (240 items) and RTX 4060 (235 items – behind its predecessor!), adopted by the RTX 4080 (220 items). The RTX 4070 Ti is shut behind it on 210 items.
Zooming in on the top-end
Due to this fact if we take a look at the current-gen GPUs, from the RX 7800 XT / RTX 4070 stage upwards, we see a fairly skewed image of AMD promoting 1,145 items (including in the one GPU we’ve not talked about above – the 7900 XT which shifted 120 items) versus 450 items for NVIDIA (including the RTX 4090, which was a lot additional down the rankings on 20 items).
That is a 72% share for AMD by way of the upper-mid-range to high-end for present era graphics playing cards – a really eye-opening determine. Certainly, it runs very a lot in opposition to the grain of the general GPU market share experiences we see (the place NVIDIA is dominant).
In fact, that is only a small slice of the market – it is a single (European) supply, and we’re narrowing down our focus to the pricier current-gen GPUs.
However nonetheless, this have to be a priority for NVIDIA, and it does counsel AMD is popping issues round in opposition to the dominant energy. Moreover, it is a fairly clear indication of why Group Inexperienced may wish to launch a salvo of latest Tremendous refreshes, if that is something like a mirrored image of the state of gross sales on this space of the GPU sphere.
In principle, NVIDIA may reveal two or three refreshed Tremendous graphics playing cards for Lovelace – lately, some doubt has been forged over the rumored 4070 Ti Tremendous – purportedly as quickly as CES 2024.
