AMD regains (a tiny bit) of GPU market share from Nvidia

The latest data from JPR shows AMD regaining some market share from Nvidia. Don't get too excited. The new figures put AMD at 17.5% of overall desktop graphics card market share for the second quarter of 2023.

That's up from just 12% for the first quarter of the year. Wind the clock back to Q2 of 2022 and AMD was on 20%. So it's still behind its modest performance relative to Nvidia one year ago. But AMD has also improved significantly from the all-time low (at least in terms of data going back to 2002) of just a 10% share in the third quarter of last year.

Overall, desktop graphics cards shipments were up by 2% this quarter versus the first quarter of the year at 6.44 million. However, they were still down by a pretty horrendous 38% versus the same quarter in 2022.

Peruvian_Skies,
Peruvian_Skies avatar

I upgraded my ten-year-old gaming PC this year and switched from an Nvidia GPU to an AMD one. You're welcome.

geosoco,

Same. It was price/performance this round, and some decent AMD sales drove that home. I'd love DLSS & ray-tracing, but they're not worth the premium atm, especially with AMD slowly improving their ray-tracing performance in some newer games.

avater,
@avater@lemmy.world avatar

never will understand why people stick to NVIDIA. Is it really only the marketing or raytracing?

I’m using AMD products since the Radeon and Half Life 2 bundle and never had any issues with the cards or the drivers.

Imho a great videocard manufacturer on pair with nvidia and with lots of value for your money. And to break the bad word for their driver, their current driver is much more superior than NVIDIA with their windows 95 driver or their geforce experience crap.

CIWS-30,

It is mostly marketing and perception, along with having the most powerful card every generation, and features that AMD doesn't have or can't match, like Ray Tracing and DLSS.

That said, I own an AMD card (6600) and usually buy AMD and don't get why the masses don't switch. I bet a lot of people haven't even tried AMD. I used to be an AMD fanboy when I was young, but switched on a lark just to see how the other side was, and never switched back.

AMD was basically just as good (still is) but is cheaper too. I blame AMD's shitty marketing (it's generally been between okay to bad / cringe) and idiot customers who only want AMD to do better to lower Nvidia prices, but are too stupid to realize that if they bought AMD, not only would it lower Nvidia prices, it would also give AMD the funding necessary to improve their product, which meant they might not even have to "settle" for AMD anymore.

buzzywuzzy,

I don’t understand the fanboyism for companies out to get your money. I’m not brand loyal at all. I check benchmarks, look up feature sets and compare all products on featureset and pricepoint as well. Last 4 cards have been AMD and very happy with the purchases. Price is what made me decide to go AMD each time. The unique features nVidia offers are not relevant to me. Almost went Intel for my last purchase, but ultimately went AMD again because Intel’s display drivers are hit or miss on older games, which I play a lot. Intel keeps getting better, so next card could be Intel.

avater,
@avater@lemmy.world avatar

same for me. AMD always provided the better deal for me. Better price, more adequate memory for its usage…only generation I was on nvidia was the 1070 and it was okay although the driver sucked.

But before and after that amd always provided the better deal in my opinion.

tal,
tal avatar

never will understand why people stick to NVIDIA. Is it really only the marketing or raytracing?

I'm using an AMD card (a RX 7900 XTX), but if you're willing to spend what Nvidia is charging for the RTX 4090, they have the best AI performance currently out there. If you're interested in doing generative AI stuff locally, that's potentially a big deal.

AMD's price is better for a given amount of VRAM, and their open-source Linux drivers are better, both of which matter to me, but there are definitely legitimate reasons to get an Nvidia card.

xNIBx, (edited )

  1. Dlss. And i am not even talking about just the frame generation but the quality of the upscaling that dlss does is superior to fsr. Amd cannot compete because it doesnt have the dedicated hardware to do so. So their methods will always be somewhat inferior/generic.

  2. Encoding/streaming stuff, nvenc is very good and compatible with most everything.

  3. Ray tracing.

  4. Power efficiency. Nvidia cards can be quieter and use less power, lower power bills, etc.

  5. Nvidia has a lot more rt/ai cores, which allow its cards to do what they do. People are willing to sacrifice 10% fps, for fancy features and potentially futureproofing.

  6. All of the above give the perception that nvidia cards are technologically superior. And honestly, they are. Look at the 4090, it is an amazing card. It is just that nvidia has decided to fuck the consumers by offering insanely downscaled/nerfed products at absurd prices. For many years, the flagship offered 30% more performance than a xx80 while costing twice as much. Nowadays, there is no value for money, price scales linearly with performance. And this is also true for amd cards.

  7. Price. Amd cards just arent significantly cheaper than nvidia ones. I dont know why people keep saying amd is offering better value. People are willing to pay 30$ more for all the advantages mentioned above. Amd did well on cpus because their cpus offered significantly better performance/price. Amd gpus simply do not do that.

For most of history, amd/ati gpus were technologically superior. They implemented new features faster and better and had vastly superior performance in games that used those features. Nowadays, it is nvidia who is doing that. Amd cards are just power hungry and they barely get slightly better rasterization performance.

Where is ati 9700pro? Where is amd 290? Amd just isnt producing any cards to make you excited and their performance/price ratio is too similar to nvidia's for anyone to care. I am using an amd 580(which is basically an updated 290) but my next gpu will probably be nvidia or cloud gaming because fuck pc gaming prices.

theragu40,

I used AMD cards for a very long time but my most recent purchase was a 3060ti.

Price/performance ratio is what ultimately made my decision. Broad adoption of DLSS vs FSR was right up there.

Thing is, like you said… If the price/performance win isn’t there, then all the other little things that are better about Nvidia cards really start to become more apparent. People will overlook a lot if they are getting more raw power for their dollar but that’s just not the case recently.

avater,
@avater@lemmy.world avatar

what’s the problem with fsr? Most of the time I don’t need it at 1440p with my 6900XT and the one time I used it, it looked fine (remnant, quality mode)

theragu40,

Nothing is wrong with it. Just that DLSS is more commonly implemented/supported.

avater,
@avater@lemmy.world avatar

well they head lengthy head start and it’s limited to nvidia gpus only.

I think with newer engines we now see a parity of these two technologies.

altasshet,

I ended up going all AMD for my build earlier this year. So I guess I’m partially responsible here…

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