Jon Peddie Research recently published its GPU market share statistics for the fourth quarter of 2020, which show that NVIDIA was able to ship more discrete graphics cards compared to AMD, despite continuing stock / availability issues that affected all releases of hardware since the beginning of 2020.
Results for the fourth quarter of 2020 in GPU market share show NVIDIA gain while AMD loses a little, Intel gains a large share of the general GPU market
When looking at the general market, worldwide sales of GPUs increased to 20.5%, which represents a growth of 12.4% over the previous year. The research firm predicted that the installed / shipped GPU base will increase to 419 million units during 2020-2025. The PC market in general is showing signs of recovery after the pandemic disrupted global operations. General GPU shipments increased 20.5% over the previous quarter.
The overall PC market increased by 30.25% quarter on quarter and 35.76% year on year. via JPR
Intel’s overall shipments increased by 20.5%, AMD’s shipments increased by 6.4%, while NVIDIA had a 7.3% decline. These are general GPU shipments and Intel / AMD had some strong products to offer users with its products based on Renoir and Comet Lake. Intel has also been able to distribute many more 14nm desktop processors, which feature their own integrated graphics solutions and these are also counted in these numbers.
Quick highlights
- General AMD unit shipments increased 6.4% quarter-on-quarter, Intel’s total shipments increased 33.2% over the last quarter and Nvidia’s shipments decreased -7.3%.
- The overall GPU connection rate (which includes integrated and discrete GPUs, desktop, notebook and workstations) for PCs in the quarter was
- 113%, down -9.2% compared to the last quarter.
- The overall PC market increased by 30.25% quarter on quarter and 35.76% year on year.
- Desktop graphics expansion cards (AIBs that use discrete GPUs) decreased -3.90% compared to the last quarter.
- The fourth quarter of 20 saw an increase in tablet shipments over the last quarter.
When looking at the discrete graphics segment, the market segment saw gains with NVIDIA gaining a 2-point market leadership over AMD. NVIDIA GeForce GPUs now account for 82% of the overall GPU d market, while AMD Radeon graphics cards account for 18%. This is a big increase when compared to the previous year, where NVIDIA was 73% discreet and AMD with 27%. NVIDIA not only launched cutting-edge GeForce RTX 30 GPUs, but also introduced more conventional GPUs in the first quarter of 2021, which should also help them increase market share in the next few results.
While NVIDIA and AMD face serious supply and demand problems, the green team has been able to provide a slightly better flow of their discrete graphics cards compared to AMD’s Radeon RX 6000 series. Another factor that contributes to NVIDIA’s biggest gain in market share is due to cryptocurrency mining. NVIDIA has taken steps to curb crypto mining operations by limiting hash rates on its next GeForce graphics cards and has also announced its CMP line, which is dedicated to the crypto mining segment, but we will have to see how it affects the growth of its market share in the next quarters.