Graphics card sales down nearly 30%, amd loses 2% share

The dedicated graphics card market has experienced a decline in sales during the first quarter of the year, despite this Nvidia managed to improve its market share at the expense of an AMD that sees it sinking slightly against its rival.

AMD continues to lose market share in GPUs

A report by Jon Peddie Research indicates that graphics card shipments have decreased by 29.8% during the first quarter of the year compared to the previous quarter and 19.2% compared to the same period of the previous year. Despite this, Nvidia has managed to increase its market share by 2% to 72.5% compared to 70.5% in the previous quarter. On the other hand, AMD has left a 2% market share to 27.5%, a noticeable decrease compared to the 29.5% it had in the previous quarter. It seems that users have not liked anything the arrival of a Radeon RX500 series that is nothing more than a rehash of the previous Radeon RX400.

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The decrease in sales is largely due to the fact that during the second half of the year both companies are expected to present their new solutions based on the Volta architectures of Nvidia and Vega from AMD. Recall that Vega will debut with the new stacked memory HBM2 while Volta will debut with GDDR6 and HBM2 supposedly.