After the incredible explosion in demand for video cards during the COVID-19 pandemic, as many more people found themselves staying at home and gaming, not counting those who thought well to take advantage of GPUs to earn from Ethereum mining (before the recent transition from the Proof Of Work to the Proof Of Stake paradigm), the market saw a sharp contraction in 2022 which also led to a decrease in prices, which have risen excessively over the last two years and arrived well above recommended.
According to data from Jon Peddie Research , it appears that shipments of graphics cards reached a twenty-year low in the third quarter of 2022 . In fact, around 6.9 million desktop boards and a similar number of notebook boards were shipped in total. AMD, Intel and NVIDIA shipped approximately 14 million desktop and laptop GPUs, down 42% from a year earlier, while integrated GPU shipments totaled approximately 61.5 million units in the same time frame .
Photo Credit: Jon Peddie Research/geekinco Despite the evident slowdown, NVIDIA has not only continued to maintain its dominance, but has actually increased its market share, now at 86%. highest ever. AMD, on the other hand, has witnessed the reverse phenomenon, so much so that it has lost about 10%, recording the lowest market share for a couple of decades now, while Intel has captured 4% of the desktop GPU market (a result not bad given its recent entry with the Arc Alchemist line).
However, it is a bit difficult to compare the current data with the video card market of the early 2000s, as the number of notebook products was much less than today. As a result, it's more reasonable to assume that video card sales are roughly in line with what they were about 15-17 years ago. Jon Peddie Research said the decline in GPU sales in the third quarter was the largest since the 2009 recession.