AMD Sells More Video Cards Than NVIDIA in Q2 2010!
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) passed NVIDIA in graphics chip shipments in the second quarter, according to a report from a marketing research on Wednesday. AMD’s ATI graphics unit took 51 percent of the standalone, or “discrete,” graphics chip market compared to Nvidia’s share that was just shy of 49 percent, according to Mercury Research, a Cave Creek, Arizona firm that tracks graphics chip shipments. This is a sharp reversal from the same period a year ago when Nvidia had about 59 percent of the market and AMD had just under 41 percent. We remember when ATI was happy to sell 2 million DX11 video cards back in January! Congratulations to AMD for pulling a major turnaround!
Total market figures for the second quarter of 2010 had Intel with a 54.3 percent share, AMD with 24.5 percent, and Nvidia with 19.8 percent. This, also, is a setback for Nvidia: in the second quarter of last year, Nvidia had a 29.6 percent share compared to AMD’s 18.2 percent. Nvidia warned Wednesday that revenue would fall short of earlier projections. The warning came a day after Apple moved its iMac and Mac Pro lines to AMD graphics chips, dropping Nvidia.
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