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Heinz68
08-27-09, 06:46 AM
The report is about Discrete Graphics Card, 4% is nice but still long way to go. Ideally i would love to see the market share close to 50/50. I'm sure NVIDIA has some different ideas. :) Next year we will see Intel's Larrabee and that will change the situation a lot I think.

Jon Peddie (http://jonpeddie.com/press-releases/details/jon-peddie-research-more-positives-than-negatives-in-q209-for-the-graphics-/) Research Press Releases
The quarter finally shows some AMD headway in market share

Since the summer of ’08, AMD’s Radeon-brand graphics AIBs began giving market leader Nvidia a much tougher run for its money. Despite its renewed competitiveness, however, AMD hadn’t yet seen a sustained growth in market share, as Nvidia adamantly refused to give up any volume, aggressively cutting prices as necessary to avoid a loss in share.

But as prices settled out and AMD got its RV770 GPU (and subsequent derivatives RV730, RV790, RV740) in place across the Radeon line-up, the company did finally see a meaningful tick up in market position. JPR’s tabulations show AMD’s unit share rising from 31% in the first quarter to 35% in Q2’09, with Nvidia declining four points to 64%.

K007
08-27-09, 08:04 AM
christ...64% for nvidia....

noko
08-27-09, 10:11 AM
It may well be 50/50 after Christmass for new sells unless Nvidia can have their next generation out. Nvidia earned that 64% but will need to keep progess moving to maintain it. Now Nvidia has surprised the industry a number of times, for example the 8800 series which blew the socks off of ATI delayed and yet delayed generation. Had everyone fooled that it was not a unified shader archetecture etc.. LOL, anyways at this time it doesn't look too promissing for Nvidia next generation for this year from what I can see so hopefully Nvidia pulls another Nvidia otherwise it may get rough for them.

Maverick123w
08-27-09, 10:16 AM
I'll probably buy a 5870 this year just because I can't wait much longer after I finish my phenom build. Hopefully I don't regret the choice.

Intel17
08-27-09, 09:21 PM
If nVidia doesn't have something competitive out by the christmas season, I'll definitely go with the 5870.

LordJuanlo
08-28-09, 04:25 AM
Good news that ATI has recovered some market share, as Heinz said the ideal situation for consumers would be a tie, but this won't happen soon.

For my next gfx upgrade (DX11), if both ATI and nVidia offer similar performance, my choice will depend:

If someone releases a 1080p 120hz monitor (Asus (http://www.mtbs3d.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3965)?) I will probably go back to nVidia this time, just for 3D Vision. If such monitor is not released, or if I don't like it, I may stay with ATI another year.

I haven't run into major issues with my Radeon card and I like to support the weakest competitor, if their products are good enough. I love competence.