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AMD dominates the discrete graphics market
ANALYSTS at Mercury Research have released figures showing that AMD is continuing to dominate the discrete graphics market and took pole position for the second quarter running.
The report, the PC graphics market share update, tells us that AMD is taking large strides in the market and added some 5.6 percentage points to its market share in the last quarter alone. This, Mercury added, has taken it up to a 61.9 per cent share of the market.
Much of the strong performance is due to the strength of the firm's DirectX 11 capable notebook discrete products, which fortunately for us, AMD was glad to wax lyrical about.
"AMD is the clear leader in DirectX 11 graphics technology with more than 25 million DirectX 11-capable units shipped to date, and the Mercury Research results are indicative of our continued focus on delivering compelling graphics technology to both notebook and desktop markets," said Matt Skynner, corporate VP and general manager of the GPU Division at AMD.
"With the successful launch of the award winning AMD Radeon HD 6800 series graphics cards, shipping in volume on the day of launch, AMD is in a very strong position moving into the last quarter of 2010."
We have requested a copy of the report from Mercury. µ
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the steam survey is about units currently in use.
market-share is about units being sold now.
having more units currently in use doesn't make nVidia any money.
having the larger market-share does provide money for ATI.
so i'd rather have the market share, having more units in use comes later as a result of that.
ATI should dominate the market. ATI's approach has been to do things easier and for the user. Unlike nVidia who does it for profit, seemingly only.
And for the Steam data, it's highly outdated using information gathered over years. It will never give a snapshot of data currently or for any time. nVidia held a LOT of the market for the longest time. Mainly due to consumer ignorance of what they were buying in their machines. ATI finally figured out how to work with OEM makers, and now has a lot more offerings from them.
unfortunately for your thinking only a small percentage of the computers to the actual sales of desktop and even smaller for the laptops actually get steam installed on them. so what is being referred to is actually correct more ati cards are used in machines now. now what steam shows is nvidia has alot more older cards in the wild than ati, the most popular card on steam is the ati 4800 series cards if you look at the chart the most popular nvidia is the 8800 series and in case you didn't know that card is getting close to five years old ati has more new cards in the popular spots than nvidia which their fermi hasn't even broke 1% yet the closest is then 460 @ .97% and the 470 & 480 hasn't broke .5% yet. there isn't a 5000 series ati below 4% and thats just in the over all rankings since the beginning. if you look just at the direct x 11 category nvidia holds a puny 17.96% and ati has the other 82.04% which means less than 1 in 5 gamers have a fermi. do yourself a favor actually read about something before you talk less you may sound stupid
All recent (like in the last year) GPUs are DX11 capable... check your Steam HW survey in that category. 82% of all DX11 GPUs used on Steam are AMD.
You're talking about a minute subset of discrete users there. Steam downloaders are pretty much gamers first and foremost, their systems aren't going to have dedicated GPUs for HTPCs, rendering etc. Any slice of the pie can be viewed and, if you ONLY look at that "slice", skew the stats. It's only when you look at the overall pool of data that you'll see the actual truth.
Not taking sides but the article isn't about Steam's gamer survey, it's about Mercury Research's quarterly survey.
You realize that Steam survey is only of gamers on their network. I game with both my desktop and laptop with nVidia at this time (both being midline cards that are a few generations old) and am not part of the Steam network, most gamers aren't and even more so, most people aren't. The only point for the Steam survey is to show what gamers use on their network currently. This survey does not take in account current sales, it is more of a historical showing for gamers only on the Steam Network. It is comparing apples to oranges.
This survey is far more accurate as a whole to the current market and what is selling out there. For what this survey is supposed to report it is far more accurate then a survey from Steam and the Steam survey has no bearing whatsoever to the results of this survey.