Demand for graphics playing cards considerably elevated throughout the pandemic as some individuals spent extra time at residence enjoying video games, whereas others tried to mine Ethereum to get some money. Nevertheless it seems to be like now that the world has re-opened and Ethereum mining on GPUs is lifeless, demand for desktop discrete GPUs has dropped dramatically. Actually, shipments of discrete graphics playing cards hit a ~20-year low in Q3 2022, in response to knowledge from Jon Peddie Analysis.
The business shipped round 6.9 million standalone graphics boards for desktop PCs — together with the finest graphics playing cards for gaming — and the same variety of discrete GPUs for notebooks within the third quarter. In whole, AMD, Intel, and Nvidia shipped round 14 million standalone graphics processors for desktops and laptops, down 42% year-over-year based mostly on knowledge from JPR. In the meantime, shipments of built-in GPUs totaled round 61.5 million models in Q3 2022.
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Actually, 6.9 million desktop discrete add-in-boards (AIBs) is the bottom variety of graphics playing cards shipped since at the very least Q3 2005 and, conserving in thoughts gross sales of standalone AIBs have been robust within the early 2000s as built-in GPUs weren’t ok again then, it’s protected to say that in Q3 2022 shipments of desktop graphics boards hit at the very least a 20-year low.
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Regardless of slowing demand for discrete graphics playing cards for desktops (unit gross sales have been down 31.9% year-over-year), Nvidia not solely managed to keep up its lead, however it truly strengthened its place with an 86% market share, its highest ever, in response to JPR. Against this, AMD’s share dropped to round 10%, its lowest market share in a few a long time. As for Intel, it managed to seize 4% of the desktop discrete GPU market in only one quarter, which isn’t unhealthy in any respect. In fact, nearly all of AIB elements that Intel offered in Q3 2023 have been entry-level fashions, however these have been demanded by Intel’s clients on account of model consciousness and comparable elements.
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There’s a catch about gross sales of desktop AIBs in comparison with the early 2000s although. Shipments of discrete laptop computer GPUs within the early 2000s weren’t as robust as they’re at this time just because there weren’t so many notebooks offered again then. Due to this fact, it’s doable that in regular quarters gross sales of standalone GPUs for desktops and notebooks are kind of in step with what we noticed some 15 – 17 years in the past. Moreover, since GPUs obtained considerably dearer, AMD and Nvidia thrived within the current years.
We already reported again in November that gross sales of built-in and standalone GPUs nosedived in Q3 as fans have been ready for GeForce RTX 40-series and Radeon RX 7000-series discrete graphics boards from Nvidia and AMD, whereas PC makers have been attempting to deplete shares of their CPUs with built-in graphics. But, whereas the entire market plunged by round 25.1% year-over-year, the market of discrete GPUs collapsed by 42% YoY.
Jon Peddie Analysis remembers that declines of GPU gross sales within the third quarter skilled the most vital drop because the 2009 recession. But, for these of us who’ve been following the discrete desktop GPU marketfor lengthy sufficient, the scenario appears much more dire.
