Jon Peddie Research - Q3 PC graphics add-in-board (AIB) market

[zMeul]

source: http://jonpeddie.com/press-releases/details/the-add-in-board-market-increased-in-q315-amd-gained-market-share-nvidia-lo

rundown:

The Add-in board market increased in Q3'15; AMD gained market share; Nvidia lost share from the last quarter

Quarter-to-quarter AIBs shipments increased 27.6% and decreased -3.8% year-to-year

JPR’s AIB Report tracks PC add-in graphics boards (AIBs), which carry discrete graphics chips. AIBs are used in desktop PCs, workstations, servers, and other devices such as scientific instruments. They are sold directly to customers as aftermarket products, or are factory installed. In all cases, AIBs represent the higher end of the graphics industry using discrete chips and private high-speed memory, compared to the integrated GPUs in CPUs that share slower system memory.

The news was encouraging and seasonally understandable, quarter-to-quarter; the AIB market increased 27.6% (compared to the desktop PC market, which increased 7.6%).

On a year-to-year basis, we found that total AIB shipments for the quarter fell -3.9%, which is less than desktop PCs, which fell -8.9%.

Q3 in general:

JPR found that AIB shipments during the quarter behaved according to past years with regard to seasonality. AIB shipments increased 27.59% from the last quarter (the 10-year average is 12.6%).

From last quarter, total AIB shipments decreased to 12.0 million units this quarter.

AMD’s quarter-to-quarter total desktop AIB unit shipments increased 33.3%.

Nvidia’s quarter-to-quarter unit shipments increased 26.4% Nvidia continues to hold a dominant market share position at 81.1%.

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the thing that looks worrisome is that fact that year-to-year shipments are declining, alongside PC market as a whole

I do understand that a lot of people put on hold buying a new system or upgrade their video card until the new APIs (DX12, Vulkan) show their actual capabilities; tied to this is the lack of complete support for these new APIs in current GPUs

will 2016 show a boom in video card sales? I would say yes - nVidia's and AMD's new lineups will play a crucial role

if you look at year-to-year sales for AMD you will notice a 10% decline - my guess it's that it was caused by AMD's inability to ship new Fiji based products alongside the 3xx rebadge

it's most likely people went to 2xx series from the already existing stock, because of the price difference

[PlayStation 2]

The day when I know more people who PC than console will be the day I die a happy mann...

[Diederik_Gr]

I wish they had a 3th and 4th digit to those numbers. Matrox and S3 seem to still have some market share, albeit near non existent.

[Prysin]

Aslong as the HD5000 and GTX thermis still work, year over year sales will drop...

 

old hardware can still run games, aslong as they can run games, in 9/10 people are too lazy to upgrade parts before it no longer can play the games THEY play....