Third quarter global GPU market NVIDIA share pick up

A well-known analyst firm, JPR, announced the sales of global graphics chip market in the third quarter of 2010. This statistic includes both the independent GPU market and integrated graphics. Statistics show that the share of Intel's integrated graphics continues to climb, and the gap between NVIDIA/AMD is narrowing.

Overall, the global GPU shipments in the third quarter fell by 1% compared with the second quarter. JPR believes that the main reason is the notebook market sales decline. Among them, the hot 8 million Apple iPads did affect sales of some notebooks. However, if compared to the same period last year, this year's GPU shipments have achieved a significant increase of 10%.

Manufacturer Q3 2009 Q2 2010 Q3 2010
AMD 20.10% 25.00% 22.30%
Intel 53.60% 53.40% 55.60%
NVIDIA 25.30% 20.70% 21.20%

From the perspective of the three major manufacturers, Intel’s market share increased by 2.2% from 53.4% ​​in the previous quarter to 55.6%. AMD’s share fell from 25% to 22.3%, while NVIDIA’s share rose to 21.2% from 20.7% in the previous quarter. Analysts believe that the weak demand and ORM vendors to clean up the old GPU inventory waiting for new products to come to market is the main reason leading to decline in AMD's share. Due to the “realistic and detectable out-of-stock phenomenon” in the market, some AMD customers did switch to NVIDIA products this quarter.