DirectX 11 Be Damned – Intel Gains GPU Market Share on AMD and NVIDIA
Jon Peddie Research announced today its estimated graphics chip shipments and suppliers’ market shares for Q4’09 and their results are a tad shocking. It shows that Intel has gained 1.6% of the market share while AMD fell short 0.2% and NVIDIA dropped full percentage point! JPR noted that the supply constraints in the 40nm process hurt sales for AMD & NVIDIA and that strong Intel Atom netbook sales helped Intel. This is shocking as many figured AMD would have a great Q4 as they recently announced that they have sold over 2 million DirectX 11 cards in roughly that time period. Some very interesting numbers, but the overall graphics market is growing with an estimated 600 million graphics chips to be sold in 2011. Not bad considering in 2002, the year Legit Reviews started, only 181 million GPUs were sold.
Intel was the leader in Q4’09, elevated by Atom sales for netbooks, as well as strong growth in the desktop segment. AMD gained in the notebook integrated segment, but lost some market share in discrete in both the desktop and notebook segments due to constraints in 40nm supply. Nvidia picked up a little share overall. Nvidia’s increases came primarily in desktop discretes, while slipping in desktop and notebook integrated.
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