Friday, June 6th 2025
NVIDIA Grabs Market Share, AMD Loses Ground, and Intel Disappears in Latest dGPU Update
Within the discrete graphics card sector, NVIDIA achieved a remarkable 92% share of the add-in board (AIB) GPU market in the first quarter of 2025, according to data released by Jon Peddie Research (JPR). This represents an 8.5% increase compared to NVIDIA's previous position. By contrast, AMD's share contracted to just 8%, down 7.3 points, while Intel's presence effectively disappeared, falling to 0% after losing 1.2 points. JPR reported that AIB shipments reached 9.2 million units during Q1 2025 despite desktop CPU shipments declining to 17.8 million units. The firm projects that the AIB market will face a compound annual decline of 10.3% from 2024 to 2028, although the installed base of discrete GPUs is expected to grow to 130 million units by the end of the forecast period. By 2028, an estimated 86% of desktop PCs are expected to feature a dedicated graphics card.
NVIDIA's success this quarter can be attributed to its launch of the RTX 50 series GPUs. In contrast, AMD's RDNA 4 GPUs were released significantly later in Q1. Additionally, Intel's Battlemage Arc GPUs, which were launched in Q4 2024, have struggled to gain traction, likely due to limited availability and low demand in the mainstream market. The broader PC GPU market, which includes integrated solutions, contracted by 12% from the previous quarter, with a total of 68.8 million units shipped. Desktop graphics unit sales declined by 16%, while notebook GPUs decreased by 10%. Overall, NVIDIA's total GPU share rose by 3.6 points, AMD's dipped by 1.6 points, and Intel's declined by 2.1 points. Meanwhile, data center GPUs bucked the overall downward trend, rising by 9.6% as enterprises continue to invest in artificial intelligence applications. On the CPU side, notebook processors accounted for 71% of shipments, with desktop CPUs comprising the remaining 29%.
Sources:
Jon Peddie Research, via Wccftech
NVIDIA's success this quarter can be attributed to its launch of the RTX 50 series GPUs. In contrast, AMD's RDNA 4 GPUs were released significantly later in Q1. Additionally, Intel's Battlemage Arc GPUs, which were launched in Q4 2024, have struggled to gain traction, likely due to limited availability and low demand in the mainstream market. The broader PC GPU market, which includes integrated solutions, contracted by 12% from the previous quarter, with a total of 68.8 million units shipped. Desktop graphics unit sales declined by 16%, while notebook GPUs decreased by 10%. Overall, NVIDIA's total GPU share rose by 3.6 points, AMD's dipped by 1.6 points, and Intel's declined by 2.1 points. Meanwhile, data center GPUs bucked the overall downward trend, rising by 9.6% as enterprises continue to invest in artificial intelligence applications. On the CPU side, notebook processors accounted for 71% of shipments, with desktop CPUs comprising the remaining 29%.
113 Comments on NVIDIA Grabs Market Share, AMD Loses Ground, and Intel Disappears in Latest dGPU Update
Intel should have secured more production. And fixed its driver overhead issue. If the driver overhead thing wasn't a problem and gpus were readily available at msrp prices, then it would have done better.
AMD screwed up badly. Their GPUs are prices way too high. I agree with gamers nexus who said it should be 25% cheaper because AMD is behind Nvidia on the features front. AMD playing catchup. I can get a 5070 ti for not much more than a 9070xt. A 5060ti 16gb is also roughly close to same price as 9060xt. Supposedly there are cheap 9060xts and 9070xts but never in stock.
Sometimes I feel that the Marketing and Management idiots from AMD are too incompetent to lift that company .
But hey, let the ignorant and uninformed buy it though.
I'm just glad I could find mine @ MSRP.
The answer is no. Low price without feature parity does not increase market share. It will be seen as a poor man's alternative.
Not that i like AMD's current prices, but doing the same thing every time and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity. Plus almost complete absence in the OEM market where Nvidia cards go to prebulilt's.
AMDHelp/comments/1j6ksd1/megathread_rx_9070_xt_black_screen_freezing_issues
And the gaming market is so screwed when people will empty their wallet for the leather jacket man no matter what, AMD cutting prices has never worked to outsell the competition.
Now mind you, I do agree with others saying that Nvidia has a cult following that really will buy anything Nvidia releases. Hell, we got member(s) who do just that. So I understand strength of brand loyalty too.
Nvidia has been selling cards from 300$ all the way up to 3.000$
AMD has been selling cards from 700$ to 850$.
Therefore nvidia has cheaper cards available and a lot more models. So it makes sense they are selling based on that alone.
Furthermore, while only having 2 models and 8% marketshare, there is a huge 1.2k+ comment megathread about their driver issues. If nvidia had anywhere near to these kinds of problems, and since they have over 11 times the marketshare, we'd have hundreds of thousands of complaints. So clearly, amd has a lot more driver issues, something that everyone knows already.
Or Nvidia could just drop gaming gpu's completely since any silicon sold for gaming instead of AI is less profit margin, they could sell everyone a GeForce now subscription instead.
www.3dcenter.org/news/die-grafikchip-und-grafikkarten-marktanteile-im-ersten-quartal-2025
For example:
RTX 20 series with it's much higher prices actually increased market share vs AMD. Even if AMD kept their prices the same they were still cheaper because Nvidia really jacked up the prices by itself. Yet it did not help AMD. Like i said. Low price without feature parity is meaningless and does not help market share.
Or and even earlier example where 290X was nearly half the price of TITAN while being only a 3% slower. Yet it did not meaningfully increase AMD's market share. Today that would be like 9070 XT being 3% slower than RTX Pro 6000 (fully unlocked 5090 essentially) while costing 999 instead of 10k.
Not because they competed near 3090.
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As for driver issues, if the RDNA4 cards were having so many issues then all of the news outlets would be reporting on it. Using a reddit thread isn't a source as reddit threads always become an echo chamber of people who never used an AMD card complaining how bad the drivers are because they heard some Ngreedia influencer say it. However the Nvidia driver issues are real, and they went through at least 5 or 6 "hotfixes" before actually fixing things. I recall one guy getting upset in that thread, the cult was all the Nvidia users rushing into the thread to tell the OP to pay more, the insane thing was paying more for a 5070Ti.
Now think about it logically, amd nowadays withdrew from the high end market to focus on the lower end, and yet for all these months while nvidia was busy selling 300 and 400$ gpus amd had NOTHING to offer there. How is it possible that the company that doesn't care about gaming and focuses on AI to have their entire lineup out from top to bottom offering the cheapest current gen GPUs while the company that focuses on the low end market has 0? How are people surprised that they aren't selling?
And you also have to take into account all that antinvidia vitriol that holds no water. I'd pay a rather hefty 10% extra to get an identical nvidia card just because I don't want to associate with the cult. They are basically calling everyone else an idiot and they are the enlightened ones. No, thanks. As I've said, you REALLY really don't care about the facts. These are Q1 sales, there was no 9060xt in Q1. Just stop dude, at this point you are doing it on purpose, there is no way... Nope, these are real users experiencing actual issues. But yeah let's handwave them away
Ok, but issue is that with FSR4 they are rather very feature rich, but still, they won't sell because well, Nvidia has its fan base, nvidias feature set is indeed better (but FSR4 closes the gap considerably) and it's price is not competitive at all.
And I have a 6800xt, I have experience with bad drivers and odd graphical effects in certain games.
Nvidia is more insulated, still nothing on the front end from llms... After 5 years could we see the end of the inflation in this market?
Developers: "This game doesn't support FSR4"
Retailers: "This Radeon costs exactly the same as that Geforce."
Customer: