By Darren Allan
According to a new report on the GPU market, AMD has made good ground selling graphics cards at the expense of Nvidia, apparently making big gains from cryptocurrency miners.
The most recent add-in graphics board report from Jon Peddie Research covers the final quarter of 2017, and finds AMD making a big, 6.5% gain when it comes to the discrete GPU market (i.e. separate graphics cards, as opposed to integrated graphics).
AMD’s market share rose from 27.2% in Q3 to 33.7% in Q4, while Nvidia dropped by a corresponding amount, falling from 72.8% to 66.3%.
Perhaps as interesting as that shift was the further revelation that over three million graphics cards were sold to cryptocurrency miners during the course of 2017, accounting for revenue of $776 million (£560 million, AU$990 million).
More importantly, Jon Peddie observes that AMD was the ‘primary benefactor’ of those cryptocurrency-based sales.
Advantage AMD?
Digging a little deeper here, then, it appears that the huge cryptocurrency boom that kicked off late last year has been doing AMD more of a favor than Nvidia. This perhaps goes some way to explain why Nvidia has been doing more to appear to be fighting the consumer’s corner when it comes …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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