This is reported by the next report by Jon Peddie Research on the segment of discrete video cards. The corresponding products in the second quarter were sold 9.5 million copies for a total of more than $ 3.5 billion. It is easy to determine that the average selling price of a video card approached $ 369. The balance of power has changed over the year as follows: NVIDIA increased its market share from 68 to 78%, and AMD reduced from 32 to 22%. The study authors expect Intel to return to the discrete graphics market by the end of the third quarter. Let’s clarify that we will probably talk about the entry-level products of the DG1 (Xe-LP) series, which will be used only in notebooks.

In a sequential comparison, the video card market grew by 6.6%, which is quite impressive against the background of the traditional 6% decline in sales volumes for this period. At the same time, the market for ready-made computers has consistently declined by 9%, so it is appropriate to talk about a wave of modernization of existing desktop systems, which covered the market constrained by self-isolation in the second quarter. Few people needed a new desktop computer in these conditions, but many wanted to raise the performance in games by replacing the video card.

Statements from AMD and NVIDIA representatives suggest that the discrete graphics card market will continue to grow in the third quarter. New graphics processors will be released – in any case, there is no doubt about NVIDIA’s plans in this regard, although a few days of sales in September are unlikely to greatly affect the statistics of the entire quarter. According to experts at Jon Peddie Research, virtual reality devices continue to attract users, but this has almost no effect on the statistics of sales of video cards. Cybersport disciplines have a much greater impact.