From PC World: Intel may still be a dominant player in PC gaming since it sells a majority of all PC processors — and those chips have integrated graphics built into them — but as far as its presence in discrete graphics is concerned, Intel’s time has seemingly come to an end.
According to analyst firm Jon Peddie Research, shipments of PC graphics cards increased to 9.5 million units in the second quarter of 2024 (up 9 percent from the first quarter). It’s a surprising find since the 10-year average shows a 7.1 percent dip during the second quarter. JPR attributed the gain to the first-quarter launch of new cards.
The more interesting story, though, continues to be the ongoing war between AMD, Nvidia, and Intel in the discrete graphics card market. And in this war, one company has been forced out with Intel now controlling exactly zero percent of the PC graphics card market. (That drop actually occurred around the beginning of the year, reports JPR, after falling from a miniscule 2 percent a year ago.)
That makes the PC graphics card market a two-horse race. Well, barely. Nvidia holds such a commanding share of the market — 88 percent — that the company essentially controls the market outright. A year ago, Nvidia held an 80 percent share, ceding the remainder to AMD and Intel. Today, the 12 percent of the PC graphics card market that Nvidia doesn’t control has been ceded to AMD alone.
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