- GPU gross sales for Q3 are down virtually 8% year-on-year
- That is usually a powerful interval for gross sales of discrete graphics playing cards
- Evidently players are holding off for RTX 5000 and RDNA 4 GPUs
Usually, this time of 12 months would witness sturdy gross sales within the desktop GPU market, however one analyst agency observes that Q3 2024 has seen a definite drop in shopping for exercise.
This comes from Jon Peddie Analysis (JPR), which has compiled figures for Q3 gross sales of ‘graphics add-in boards’ (which means standalone GPUs that slot into desktop PCs) discovering that 8.1 million models have been shifted within the quarter.
That’s down 7.9% on the identical quarter in 2023, a reasonably hefty drop, and it’s additionally down in comparison with Q2 2024, with a fair bigger lower of 14.5%.
AMD misplaced a bit extra floor right here, too, as Nvidia now has 90% of the discrete graphics card market (up from 88% in Q2), with Group Purple holding the remaining 10% (down from 12%). Intel Arc merchandise don’t register on the scales for standalone GPUs, sadly for Group Blue – although unsurprisingly it nonetheless holds the bulk share in the case of CPU-integrated graphics.
The longer term additionally appears gloomy, JPR forecasts, as discrete GPUs are forecast to have a detrimental compound annual progress price of -6%, with the market set to shrink additional by to 2028.
Evaluation: Consumers are taking part in a ready recreation
Clearly, this isn’t nice information for any of the GPU giants, however AMD might be notably displeased to see extra market share slip away from it – the corporate is simply simply clinging onto double digits at this level.
A 12 months in the past, Group Purple had a 17% share of the market. So, regardless of some notably profitable Radeon GPU launches in latest occasions – particularly the RX 7900 GRE, which the truth is tops our checklist of the perfect graphics playing cards, and the RX 7800 XT, a powerful mid-range providing that headed up that checklist when it got here out final 12 months – AMD is floundering, a minimum of in accordance with these stats.
Why are general GPU gross sales down in a reversal of the traditional image for the third quarter? That’s certainly because of the proximity of next-gen graphics playing cards from AMD and Nvidia, that are about to launch, in idea, at CES 2025 in each instances.
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