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Not a Bad Quarter To Be a GPU Vendor (pcper.com)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the how-did-we-do dept.

Jeremy Hellstrom, writing for PC Perspective (edited):Compared to Q2 2016, total GPU shipments including discrete and integral chips in the mobile and desktop markets increased by 20%; good but not enough to recover from the volume we saw in Q3 2015. Individually, total AMD sales increased by 15%, and Intel saw 18% boost, but it was NVIDIA that was the most successful with an impressive 39% increase. In AMD's case, it saw sales of its aging desktop APUs drop by 10% but that was quickly offset by a jump in discrete GPU sales of 34.7% and an increase in laptop demand by 19.1%. The discrete GPU market as a whole has grown by 35.6% compared to the last quarter and by 10.1% when compared to last year. This is not bad news for AMD or Intel but it is certainly NVIDIA which has the most to celebrate.

16 comments

  1. Not a bad quarter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    to be God. His 401k is looking better than ever

  2. All I want for Christmas is a Titan X by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Daddy wants to go hunting dinosaurs.

  3. Its Trump, I tell ya all! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    an increase in laptop demand by 19.1%

    Nothing protects pussies like a laptop with a 2016 GPU!

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    1. Re:Its Trump, I tell ya all! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Does this mean the Alt Right are primarily gamers, and they bought new GPUs to celebrate their victory with a game of Counter-Strike ?

  4. get to the vertex by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Why would someone render a product no one wants to see

  5. AMD sales skyrocket by WaffleMonster · · Score: 4, Funny

    As Nvidia's basic graphics driver downloads are replaced with malware.

  6. Logical by Espectr0 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have a third gen i5, and wanted to upgrade but seeing benchmarks i may get only up to 15% of speed increases. Today you get a much better upgrade by getting an SSD drive and a new GPU.

    I have a nvidia gtx 970, excellent card, silent, no issues. It was a little expensive (330$) but nobody could deliver a faster product at that price.

    I wanted to upgrade to the 1070, but since i game at 1080p i couldn't justify the (more expensive 450$) cost.

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    1. Re:Logical by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You should have chosen another example for a discrete GPU. GTX 970 has a very significant issue with the upper 0.5 GB of memory; using it causes a significant performance drop. See this story for an explanation and for nVIDIA admitting they messed up.

      But that's not to contradict the general point you were making.

    2. Re:Logical by Espectr0 · · Score: 1

      I knew about the last 0.5 gig issue. Guess what? The card runs fine. Sure, maybe it could run 3% faster or something. But it's the best card i have ever had for now.

      I'm sure the 1070 is a lot better. But it still is too expensive. However 1080p is fine

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  7. Nonsense by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    In AMD's case, it saw sales of its aging desktop APUs drop by 10%

    Aging.... fucking please. The first release was only 5 years ago and they not only released Bristol Ridge this year, but Raven Ridge is slated for release not even 6 months from now.

  8. Reason for AMD Jump by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The reason for AMD discreet GPU jump is simple, the RX 470/480 cards are beautiful for mining altcoins. (Yes, that is still a thing.) Dollars for donuts, or in this case, dollars for watts, they're the best thing going for gpu mining. They're STILL being sold for more than MSRP in a lot of places.

  9. Just a guess but by JustNiz · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing that you can thank HTC Vive and Oculus Rift for most of that bubble.

  10. On the other hand by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It's always a bad time to be an AMD customer.

  11. It's a great time to be in graphics hardware by PhrostyMcByte · · Score: 1

    The graphics industry is finally out of a decade-long rut. Consoles caused PCs to become second-class, and suddenly games and engines focused less on visual fidelity and more on portability and eeking out as much performance as possible from the relatively uncapable consoles.

    144hz, 4K, HDR, VR --- these things are saving the industry, and there's enough headroom to keep growing for probably another decade.

  12. Zen by basecastula+ · · Score: 1

    I don't know about y'all but I'm waiting for AMD zenith cores to be released before I built a new PC. That and the rx480 is perpetually sold out.