That was Q2, Q3 they slumped to roughly 35% after peaking at something like 42%.
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That was Q2, Q3 they slumped to roughly 35% after peaking at something like 42%.
indeed, i also voted that i prefer nvidia cards but i currently upgraded to ati
- I blame the current prices of nvidia lol 
Wow that seems incredible at a time when they out perform Nvidia and are cheaper and had good momentum going, did they say what causes such a massive turn around?
Again, do you have the links? that just seems extortionately out of place, are you sure your reading it right? And what about Nvidias data, your not saying anything about that?
3 times now i have asked you about the link to this data, your not responding to it.
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Its not easy to find public links for the information - best I can find atm is:
http://blogs.barrons.com/techtrader...losses-wells-sees-hope-in-cost-cuts-consoles/
For Q3. The Q4 preliminaries don't seem to have surfaced online.
Fascinating, it seems that no matter what AMD do, out perform and undercut Nvidia at the same time and their sales still go in a downward spiral.
Its pretty clear there isn't anything they can do and they can't go on designing high end GPU's at huge expense that they then can't sell no matter how good they are, its completely terminal.
But at least the have Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft Game Consoles, its much cheaper to design GPU's for that market so they will go on there.
The only problem is all this will only accelerate the already dying enthusiasts market.
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Would be interesting to seperate the enthusiast market from the other data, I refuse to believe that the 600 series are outselling the 7000 series given that most consumers will vote with their wallet within reason regardless of any other variable. (I also suspect once full Q4 data is in AMD will probably have climbed back to around 38%). Really want to know whats driving the nVidia sales but I don't have access to that level of granularity without paying a lot of money for the data.
Same here, it seems quite odd given that AMD market share increased by about 10% from what it was and taking it from Nvidia at the time when AMD dropped the prices, makes sense.
In the this quarter the prices are still the same but AMD added another aspect by Improving the performance of their GPU's substantially through drivers and then advertised that performance along side a generous package that included a bunch of free games.
So you would think the momentum they built in Q2 would continue through Q3 if not get even better.
But no, instead those figures say AMD's market share fell by a massive 20% and all of it went straight to Nvidia.
It makes absolutely no sense and if thats how it is. AMD are completely and utterly screwed, they couldn't do any more as profit margins are at they point where they need high volume to sustain themselves, and that volume is declining rapidly while Nvidia don't have to do anything to enjoy steadily taking over completely.
Thats when its time to stop investing anymore money into it and consed, its unsustainable.
TBH they need to take a leaf from nVidias book even tho I know a lot of people will hate the idea - take the current 7000 series tweak it slightly and re-release it as the 8000 series - the average consumer than perceives the nVidia 600 series as one generation behind cutting edge and is more naturally inclined to buy the GPUs they think are the newer ones. (it works for nVidia anyhow).
I see AMD have improved big time and considered the switch myself (3D kept me Green) but I don't understand how nvidia are still grabbing the sales. The prices are OTT and performance could be better but still they do well.
Mistrust of AMD or historically Nvidia are the better cards? I have no idea but does seem a little harsh on AMD for the last month or so. Maybe figures will improve for the last Q4 as this is when AMD grabbed the headlines with the new drivers.
Mistrust of AMD or historically Nvidia are the better cards? I have no idea but does seem a little harsh on AMD for the last month or so. Maybe figures will improve for the last Q4 as this is when AMD grabbed the headlines with the new drivers.
Thats what they are doing anyway, the 8### series is just a tweaked 7### series, its the same for Nvidia, the 7## is a tweaked 6## series.
Its not going to be until late 2014 at the earliest before we see a new 20nm GPU, tho not from AMD if this keeps up, or anyone if Nvidia decide its no longer worth selling a piece of hardware for £400 that they could be selling for £3000 as a sever / compute unit instead.