GPU market shares in Q3 2021: Intel and AMD failed, Nvidia has 20% stake in PC

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• Unofficial renders of the Intel Arc graphics card reference design Zdroj: Moore’s Law is Dead, via VideoCardz

• Unofficial renders of the Intel Arc graphics card reference design Zdroj: Moore’s Law is Dead, via VideoCardz

• Unofficial renders of the Intel Arc graphics card reference design Zdroj: Moore’s Law is Dead, via VideoCardz

• Unofficial renders of the Intel Arc graphics card reference design Zdroj: Moore’s Law is Dead, via VideoCardz

• Unofficial renders of the Intel Arc graphics card reference design Zdroj: Moore’s Law is Dead, via VideoCardz

• Unofficial renders of the Intel Arc graphics card reference design Zdroj: Moore’s Law is Dead, via VideoCardz

• Unofficial renders of the Intel Arc graphics card reference design Zdroj: Moore’s Law is Dead, via VideoCardz

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We have the latest insight into how GPU manufacturers stand against each other. In the third quarter, there were very large shifts, or even very minimal. Depending on how it’s taken.

Three months have passed again, so here we have the latest report on the development of market shares of GPU manufacturers for personal computers, ie Nvidia, AMD and Intel. As usual, this is data compiled by Jon Peddie Research, which has now published statistics for the third quarter of July to September 2021. It seems like a strange period when one part of the market went down a lot, but Nvidia, for example, did well.

The PC market has gone down a lot

According to Jon Peddie Research, computer sales fell sharply in the third quarter, which will have a major impact on the following numbers. Respectively, they fell against very high sales in the second quarter. Reportedly, sales of PC processors in Q3 2021 were to decrease by as much as 23.1% compared to Q2 2021, and in connection with this, GPU sales also decreased by 18.2% (as you can see, the decrease is lower than the market decline – why you will see in a moment).

But it’s not a drop to some dramatically low numbers, as a total of 101 million GPUs and integrated GPUs are reportedly still sold – compared to Q3 2020 year-on-year, sales were still higher, PC processors sold 9.2% more than last year. Thus, computer sales only decreased against the very high levels caused by the coronavirus pandemic. And with these extreme sales, it was probably to be guessed that they would not be permanent, so now the legitimate correction has come back.

This drop in computer sales compared to the previous quarter means that CPU sales have dropped, as already mentioned. And with them, the number of integrated graphics has shrunk, both those on Intel processors and those from AMD. According to JPR, Intel has even sold 25.6% less processors for PCs with integrated GPUs than in Q2. AMD was a little less bad, its GPU sales fell 11.4% against Q2. Unfortunately, this number includes mixed iGPUs and standalone GPUs, but it was probably because there was a big, perhaps as much as 20% drop in sales of integrated GPUs (GPUs), while standalone graphics didn’t drop or even rise that much.

On the contrary, a separate GPU was a thing where sales in Q3 increased. It is quite possible that in the third quarter the cryptocurrencies began to grow again and with them probably also the interest in graphics cards for their mining. Whatever the reason, according to Jon Peddie Research Nvidia, sales rose by 8.0% compared to the previous quarter, compared to the other two competitors.

Current total shares

As a result, Nvidia recorded a significantly higher overall market share – it now had 20% of the market in all GPUs in Q3, although it only sells stand-alone cards. In Q2 it had a share of only 15%. Intel had 68% last time and due to a big drop in CPU sales, it has now gone down to only 62%. AMD’s market share has risen from 16% to 18%, but its share is now lower than that of Nvidia, although it has both integrated GPU and standalone GPUs. So Nvidia sold more stand-alone GPUs in Q3 than AMD sold APUs and GPUs.

Market shares of standalone desktop graphics

If we look at separate statistics that take into account only separate PCIe graphics cards for desktop PCs, it looks a lot different. As already mentioned, this area did not decrease, but on the contrary grew. Overall, reportedly by 10.9%. Unfortunately, we do not have data on how much sales have increased for Nvidia and its GeForce graphics and how much for AMD and Radeons. Both companies may have had similar growth because the market share has not changed. More precisely – JPR states shares rounded to whole percentages, so we only know that the shares have not changed so much that the number in the position of percentage units flips, but any change in the share by up to 0.9 percentage points may be hidden.

Thus, in Q3 2021, Nvidia continued to have a market share of 83% for stand-alone desktop graphics, while AMD had 17% – both the same as in Q2 2021. JPR recently included Intel in the table, which in the meantime began selling stand-alone GPUs. But its standalone desktop GPUs are probably selling only a minimum now, because this time the table is only two-row.

Tip: Intel releases Iris Xe desktop graphics: 640 shaders with PCIe 4.0 and 4GB LPDDR4X, even passively

Data for the current fourth quarter should come out again in three months, sometime in late February or late March at the latest.

Gallery: Unofficial renders of the reference design of the Intel Arc graphics card

Source: Jon Peddie Research