By Darren Allan
According to a fresh snapshot of the GPU arena, AMD has actually gained market share for the first time since way back in 2012.
New figures for Q2 of this year from Mercury Research show that when it comes to the discrete graphics card market for desktop PCs, Nvidia has a 77.2% share compared to AMD’s 22.8%.
While Nvidia is clearly still in the lead by a long mark, the fact that AMD’s share jumped 2.5% on the previous quarter – the first increase in four years as mentioned, and a relatively large one – is definitely a good sign for fans of the latter’s cards.
Of course, this hasn’t been sparked by the launch of the new Polaris-powered Radeon RX 400 series cards, as these weren’t out in Q2 and won’t impact until the stats for the third quarter.
And this makes the shift in AMD’s favor even more interesting, given that it has really ratcheted up its efforts to pitch cards at a more wallet-friendly level with the new RX 460/470/480 models.
Taking turf
This could mean that come Q3, AMD could snatch even more graphics card turf from Nvidia, although the latter seems to realize the danger of this – we only …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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