Nvidia themselves claim:
http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2014/03/20/directx-12/#sthash.LVmkRK5x.dpuf
Wtf does market share have to do with DX Mantle anyway?
First I would say, Cambofrog originally posted this
Sometimes I have to lol at you Charlie, AMD are very much small time, they have less than 10% market share. AMD with all those fingers in those console pies, yet cannot make a profit, their last couple of fiscal years reported losses. Ok a profit this quarter but 2014 outlook is looking not very rosy in the slightest. To take anything away from nVidia's 90% market share they will have to do a lot more than have a few GPU's in some consoles. There is no bigger player in gaming right now ? Only you could believe that.
It was completely insane claim and i merely posted with you know, facts. In my reply I already said Nvidia have around a 55% discrete gpu market share.
People have been posting numbers like "amd's is going down, Nvidia is going up", they change every quarter. AMD was down 2% this quarter, but they were up 2% the quarter before and the reverse was true for Nvidia, that's how it works.
His first post was clearly trolling, using painfully obviously flawed statistics, then it should be noted this claim was on page 9, laughed at by most, then 9 pages later(for me) he quoted it with a link saying Nvidia has 90% of the professional market segment..... at which point yes, what does the professional market segment have to do with DX12 or gaming... answer, nothing.
So outside of the fact people do game on both Intel and AMD APU's, meaning discrete instantly becomes a dodgy barometer of the "gaming" segment, and the fact that AMD is now shipping in 5 of the 6 biggest selling consoles(last gen they had roughly speaking 2/3rd's of the sales, Wii highest, Ps3 next, Xbox behind, but this gen it's entirely AMD ps3/360/wii sales are tanking/tanked and the console market share is going to creep from around 65% to probably 90-95%). It's fairly easy to see how a 55% discrete PC only market share, drops significantly for Nvidia when considering "gaming" in general.
I haven't claimed anything incorrect. Even the total pc gpu market including APU's isn't an accurate barometer because of consoles. However it's also commonly held knowledge that Nvidia low end volume is huge, and this is because of a huge lead in laptops where Intel owns AMD and lets say very few OEM's are encouraged to put AMD discrete gpu's in Intel laptops. The majority of those aren't for gaming either like AMD's low end, but Nvidia's low end is significantly bigger than AMD's as the largest pc market is low end laptops with crap $30(to laptop makers) gpu's.
I'm only responding because Cambofrog has repeated his 90% market share claim multiple times, consistently quoting me, with links that prove I'm right. He is clear as day trolling, I don't think market share is particularly important by any metric because frankly there aren't statistics to prove it either way.
I fully accept that maybe Nvidia has a lead in discrete for gaming, logically for the reasons above I doubt it, but it's possible. However all I claimed statistically was Nvidia had a 55% market share in discrete and it's around 20 vs 16% on average over the last year, maybe closer to 19 vs 17%.
