AMD ships 25 Millionth DirectX 11 GPU

[An Exception]

Well if you go by steam hardware survey:

G80/G92 nVidia cards still dominate the overall GPU landscape - alone more than the total ATI/AMD cards.

Totally agree, but G80/G92 are hardly the future.

AMD DX11 GPUs while having taken a larger slice of the pie early on are in a steady and substantial decline against the new nVidia offerings - tho that will probably change with the 6 series coming out.

Agree again...

 

[arknor]

wish people wouldnt use steam survey as a good representation.

i dont think ive ever taken a steam survey apart from the first time so unless they started collecting results without permition thats probably a lot of people who dont do the survey..

would love to see ocuk figures even if it was percentage based if they didnt want to give away proper numbers of how many cards they sell

 

[Freddie1980]

Overall market share Nvidia has it by a long way. lol at using the steam survey, DX11 cards account for a tiny fraction of the overall market, considering AMD had a good six months head start over Nvidia with the first DX11 GPU's, it's hardly surprising they have the highest percentage of users. It will all change now Nvidia have got good lower priced performance parts to market..

Overall market share AMD is now the leading company for the first time ever (I'm surprised you forgot this TBH). I do agree though the steam survey isn't a good measure, its just a reflection of what Steam users are running and also old are those results? What I mean is my mate hasn't used Steam for months and months so how can he's results from 18 months ago still be relevant?

 

[An Exception]

wish people wouldnt use steam survey as a good representation.

i dont think ive ever taken a steam survey apart from the first time so unless they started collecting results without permition thats probably a lot of people who dont do the survey..

would love to see ocuk figures even if it was percentage based if they didnt want to give away proper numbers of how many cards they sell

I think the steam survey is probably the single best source actually, unless you can provide a better source?

As with regards to OCUK statistics I think there was a poll once that showed the market share was 60-40 in favour of AMD...

 

[An Exception]

Overall market share AMD is now the leading company for the first time ever (I'm surprised you forgot this TBH). I do agree though the steam survey isn't a good measure, its just a reflection of what Steam users are running and also old are those results? What I mean is my mate hasn't used Steam for months and months so how can he's results from 18 months ago still be relevant?

It's updated each month. I presume it records the hardware profile of folks who use it.

 

[drunkenmaster]

It's updated each month. I presume it records the hardware profile of folks who use it.

You do have to opt in, and I don't, but many people do.

As stated, AMD has infact got the larger market share, and that happened in a quarter in which the 480/470/465 GTX had been out and the 460gtx's were out during the majority of it, the 430gt was I believe on sale for part of it to OEM's only.

THere really aren't ANY companies nvidia has locked in any more, at all, because most companies absolutely do their best to stay away from them.

Dell, nope, Apple, nope, Acer, nope, etc, etc, while 3-4 years ago these guys were 100% Nvidia(or as good as) they simply aren't anymore, they aren't even remotely close. I'm not sure theres a single top tier exclusive Nvidia company at all anymore, so no their brand doesn't just sell.

Nvidia branding does work, on fanboys who upgrade their own cards, it works on AMD aswell, us guys make up a number of sales that could pretty much be a statistical error. Most sales go into prebuilt computers, laptops, consoles, Nvidia has no strangle hold anywhere and is heavily heavily rumoured to have lost pretty much every single console for the next gen.

Though that has slightly changed, the consoles were pushed two years back, hardware will change but its FAR more likely that Sony will go with AMD over Nvidia, its well known Sony aren't happy with dealing with Nvidia, MS made it clear they were unhappy with Nvidia and moved away from them.

Nvidia's "brand" name means nothing with Dell, HP, Sony and everyone else, most of them filed lawsuits and have had multiple lawsuits filed against them over "bumpgate", lost millions upon millions and only gotten fairly small payouts from Nvidia to recoup some of the losses. Their brandname has been dirt with these guys for 2 years, thats why most of them aren't exclusive(or as good as) anymore. Its insane to suggest all the companies screwed by Nvidia are happy and regard them as better, that hasn't been true for a LONG time now.

As for sales, yes you expect in ANY product cycle for ANY product for sales to slow down as you approach a new product, honestly I think Nvidia haven't had a huge amount of influence there, some for sure but not that much.

6 series sales are likely in the first 3-4 months to dwarf Nvidia sales again simple because in the 6 series lifespan from say now till next October, I'd expect the first 3-4 months sales for each segment to be noticeably higher than the last 3-4 months sales.

This is before of course, Ontario/Zacate launch which are almost certainly going to be incredibly strong in their individual mobile fields, Llano on desktop which will eat away Nvidia sales aswell.

The 430gt(which should end up being Nvidia's largest selling product), has worse drivers, worse image quality(for a card aimed at HTPC) uses more power and is significantly slower in gaming while costing more than a 5670. The 5570 matches and often beats it in gaming, costs a decent amount less, and still has superior image quality.

Of course Nvidia hasn't really announced it but they still have the low end 310/320gt's in production as their really low end, I wouldn't be surprised if Nvidia is pushing them harder and if they easily outsell the 430gt. Problem is Nvidia is pushing slower, older dx10.1 2 year old tech vs what in a couple months will be second generation dx11, faster and better low end cards.

 

[QwaF]

Companies don't ship millions more than the demand of them. Shipped numbers are a fairly good pointer.

 

[arknor]

I think the steam survey is probably the single best source actually, unless you can provide a better source?

As with regards to OCUK statistics I think there was a poll once that showed the market share was 60-40 in favour of AMD...

you think? when was this before the fermi launch when everyone was buyying 5770s?

its like saying wow is the best survey because 12 million people subscribe , oh look everyone had dual core cpu's ,2gb of memory and a 512mb graphics card.

steam survey is only accurate if everyone opts in and a good spread use it, lets face it most people who log on to steam and opt in to the survey are going to be playing mw2 , counterstrike , tf2 etc.

atleast if we had percentages from ocuk or another store it would be a from a wide range of customers