Jon Peddie Research (JPR) has released a comprehensive report on the Q3 2022 GPU market share. And, despite the lack of interest in the new RTX 40 Series that is piling up in the warehouses, NVIDIA remains the undisputed king of sales. It would be distantly followed by AMD and then Intel with its new entry into the graphics market.
The desktop GPU market doesn’t look very promising. And if we already anticipated that sales for mining had also plummeted, the desktop data are not to shoot rockets. Despite the decline in shipments, NVIDIA gains market share in discrete GPUs, while AMD drops to single digits, and Intel reaches half of AMD’s share.
During this third quarter of 2022 or Q3, total PC GPU shipments are down 25.1% year-over-year. Looking at just GPUs destined for the desktop, the decline was 15.43%, and notebook graphics were down as much as 30%. This was the biggest drop since the 2009 recession.
As for the GPU market report figures, the dGPU or discrete GPU business declines to 14 million units versus 24 million units sold last year in the same period. This is a really worrying drop considering that this quarter is usually the best quarter for PC sales.
During the quarter, according to this report, NVIDIA managed to reap a market share of 88%. In contrast, AMD’s share has been quite poor, perhaps also because many are waiting for the release of the new Radeon RX 7000 Series and are not buying from the previous generation. In the case of AMD, the share was only 8%. The third in discord has been Intel, which has only obtained a 4% share (1% less than the previous quarter).
As can be seen in the charts, the GPU market saw a sharp increase in graphics card shipments over a brief two-year period. Largely because of the cryptocurrency mining rush and also because of the repute of tech purchases during the confinement. But, since then, it’s been in decline as you can see from the shipments for desktop and laptop graphics.
If you take a look at the share stats for desktop and notebook GPUs, desktops did slightly better with shipments increasing from the previous quarter from 26 million to 28 million. If you look at the notebook market share, it suffered a sharp drop with sales of 58 million in the previous quarter and 48 million for this quarter.
Again the discrete GPU market declines, while the market for iGPUs or integrated GPUs has increased with 62 million units sold in total, 21 million of them for the desktop.
Unit shipments, segments, and vendor share (Source: JPR)
Q3 2022 desktops notebooks Total Workstation 0.72 1.05 1.77 High-end 2.42 4.45 6.87 Mid-range 2.78 N / A 2.78 Low-end 0.96 1.47 2.43 Embedded 20.78 40.85 61.63 Total 27.67 47.82 75.49
GPU Unit Shipments by Segment and Platform in Millions (Source: JPR)
As you can imagine, both AMD and NVIDIA have been trying to liquidate their previous generation units to make way for the new generation ones. As you may know, NVIDIA recently released the GeForce RTX 4090 and RTX 4080, with more in this series coming soon. That’s why they are trying to get rid of the RTX 30 Series. The same goes for AMD, with the new Radeon RX 7000 Series and the current RX 6000 Series being unloaded.