AMD has several successful graphics card launches to look back upon over the last year and its ATI Radeon HD family has been a tremendous success overall. Despite all this AMD is having a hard time keeping market shares. Now that analysts have started to look over last quarter’s sales figures it turns out that the winners were in fact NVIDIA and Intel, while AMD lost market shares, according to Jon Peddie Research.
GPU sales overall was down substantially compared to the same period last year. With 74.87 million sold graphics processors, both GPUs and IGPs in the first quarter of 2009 sales were down 21.1% year-to-year. On the other hand, for the first time in eight years sales were better in Q1 than in Q4 of last year.
Intel gained a lot from its integrated graphics circuits with a total market share of 49.7 percent. This was a 2 percentage increase from the last quarter, which could be explained by discrete graphics card becoming less attractive in these depressing times of ours. NVIDIA increased its sales by 0.5 percentages up to a total share of 31.1% while AMD dropped 2.2 percentages to 17.1%.
