Five years later! AMD beats NVIDIA for the first time

AMD Ryzen has made successive gains in the processor market, forcing Intel to gasp for air, and graphics cards have finally made new breakthroughs.

According to the latest report from Jon Peddie Research, in the graphics card market (including integrated graphics/discrete graphics/embedded) in the second quarter of 2019, AMD GPU shipments surpassed NVIDIA, which is the first time in five years.

The second quarter is traditionally the off-season for GPU graphics cards. Over the past decade, the average month-on-month decline was 2%. However, this year, there was a slight increase of 0.6% to 76.7 million units, but it was still 8.93 million units less than the same period last year. Among them, PC GPUs increased by 0.6% month-on-month and decreased by 10.4% year-on-year.

On average, each PC is equipped with 1.2 GPUs, a decrease of 10.38% from the previous quarter. Discrete graphics cards account for 26.95% of PCs, a decrease of 1.99 percentage points from the previous quarter.

In terms of manufacturers, AMD GPU shipments increased significantly by 9.85% month-on-month, and it was the only one of the three companies with positive growth. Intel and NVIDIA fell by 1.44% and 0.04% respectively.

Intel still dominates the entire market with its integrated graphics, but JPR did not give specific numbers. Looking at the chart, it is roughly around 68%, while AMD and NVIDIA are around 17% and 16%, respectively.

The last time AMD's graphics card market share was ahead of NVIDIA was in the third quarter of 2014. At that time, AMD's flagship card was the R9 290X based on the Fiji architecture. Then NVIDIA released the GTX 9 series based on the super-efficient Maxwell architecture and has been ahead of AMD until now.

Although NVIDIA's latest Turing architecture RTX 20 series has advanced technology and leading performance, its recent performance has been mediocre due to factors such as immature ray tracing, overpriced prices, and the continued impact of the collapse of the mining card market.

Although AMD lags behind in performance, its 7nm Vega has won a lot of professional markets, and with the RX 5700 series based on the new 7nm Navi architecture, it is gradually gaining momentum.

Looking back over the past decade, AMD has only been ahead of NVIDIA for a few years, only in the third quarter of 2010 and the first quarter of 2014, and both times the gap was basically the same. I wonder if AMD can build on its success this time?

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