It has not escaped everyone: The hardware industry continues to be affected by the shortage of components. And the graphics card market is badly affected. But the future may not be as bleak as one might think. Explanations.
office Jon Peddie Research has just presented a new study on the graphics card market. In particular, we learn that last year graphics card shipments increased by 25.7% in the third quarter. This corresponds to around 12.7 million units sold worldwide. For comparison: 10.1 million units were sold in the same period last year.
A juicy graphics card market
This third quarter of 2021 is also very lucrative because Total sales $ 13.7 billion in the third quarter of 2021 alone. Beware, however, this number includes not only graphics cards for private individuals, but also GPUs that scale for servers, rendering machines, cars, etc., especially with the democratization of autonomous cars.
Nvidia unbeatable?
We also learn that NVIDIA largely dominates the market with 78.2% of sales. However, AMD is slowly continuing on its way, nibbling 1% more than it did in 2020. There are only two big challengers in the industry right now, but in 2022 Intel will join the ring to try and push its products too. In particular, we know that the American manufacturer wants to be quite aggressively priced in the entry-level area and also keeps a little under the elbow in order to be able to keep up with the RTX 3070 from Nvidia.
The year 2021 has been pretty tough for those looking to get a GPU and set up a new configuration, and the trend could continue as Intel recently stated that we shouldn’t expect an exit from the crisis before 2023.
