Graphics card sales have, much like other hardware markets, been going slow over the last year, but it looks like things are about to change now. Jon Peddie Research has published numbers for Q3 2009 and the number of shipped GPUs have gone up by 21.2% since Q2 2009. This is the biggest quarterly increase in nine years, but what’s almost as interesting is how the GPU market shares are spread around.
The biggest loser of Q3 is without a doubt NVIDIA who lost 4.3 percentages in just one quarter. Both AMD and Intel have improved since Q2, even if AMD is still down 0.8 percentages since Q3 2008.
| Q3 2008 | Q2 2009 | Q3 2009 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intel | 49.4% | 51.1% | 52.7% |
| NVIDIA | 27.8% | 29.2% | 24.9% |
| AMD | 20.6% | 18.4% | 19.8% |
Above we see the development on the GPU over the last year and at the same time both AMD and Intel increased their GPU sales with 30.2% and 25.2% compared to Q2 2009, while Nvidia had to settle for and increase of only 3.3%.
The reason for the big jump in Q3 is that many OEM manufacturers and retailers were stocking up before the launch of Windows 7.
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