3 Out of 4 PC Gamers Own an NVIDIA GPU, AMD/NVIDIA Market-Share Graph Shows

[DKT27]

Beyond3D’s member ‘dbz‘ has shared an interesting graph, showing the percentage of purchased NVIDIA and AMD graphics cards over the past few years. As dbz wrote, this graph was made from aggregated quarterly reports, mainly from Mercury Research with fillers from JPR where Mercury’s figures were unavailable.

“Most should be verifiable via a quick search. Some of the older figures were collected via Business Week and the WSJ (amongst other publications) for 1995-2003 – most of which I’ve truncated from this graph since most of the graphics vendors from those years are now defunct/no longer making discrete graphics boards.”

This is a really interesting graph and shows NVIDIA’s dominance.

It will be interesting to see whether AMD will be able to recover with its new GPU that will be hopefully announced in the next coming months. Early reports claim that AMD’s R9 390X will be a really powerful card.

One thing is certain: an NVIDIA monopoly won’t benefit PC gamers. So here is hoping that AMD comes back with a punch.

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[software182]

Always green side overhere

[VileTouch]

and for a good reason too. NVIDIA cards ARE better than the equivalent ATI counterparts. (fanboys love to compare different generations of cards based on the price)

[eXentios]

I've been always green and will be.

Riva TNT, GF2, GF3, GF4 Ti4600-Ultra, Fx5900-Ultra, 7600GS, 8800 GTS512, 9600GT, GTX 650Ti, GTX 960, who's next?

[DKT27]

I personally have used AMD mostly but have been impressed with nVidia when I got my hands on one for some time.

Having said, AMD has done to graphics what no one else has. They brought us the excellent API which the next DirectX is going to be based on. Not only that, they will probably be the first one to implement 3D stacked memory on their next flagship graphics cards, known as HBM.

I find both AMD and nVidia equal in many terms and excellent in their own expertise.

I've been always green and will be.

Riva TNT, GF2, GF3, GF4 Ti4600-Ultra, Fx5900-Ultra, 7600GS, 8800 GTS512, 9600GT, GTX 650Ti, GTX 960, who's next?

Would like some personal opinion on the 960. How is the card. Does it lag at full HD. Do you think 2GB or 128bit width is enough. Which one did you bought. Anything else which you want to mention about.

[212eta]

NVIDIA, here, too.

[eXentios]

Would like some personal opinion on the 960. How is the card. Does it lag at full HD. Do you think 2GB or 128bit width is enough. Which one did you bought. Anything else which you want to mention about.

Hi, first of all I'm not a hardcore gamer.

It was time to do an upgrade and the budget was:

250,00 € for a graphics card and

110,00 € for a psu (http://xfxforce.com/en-us/products/ts-series-full-wired/ts-series-850w-psu-core-edition-p1-850s-nlb9)

Said that, here we go.

- It's a nice and short card (8.47"x4.77"x1.61"Inch / 21.52 x 12.12 x4.09 Centimeter);

- Very quiet, max TDP 120W;

- @ full HD it does the job very well, no hiccups or lag;

- 2GB and 128-bit Memory Interface do a decent job, but as always, much is better, but that would be out of my budget.

As I'm an Asus big fan for years, well, better say addict to (all my MB and graphics are Asus) I bought an Asus STRIX-GTX960:

http://www.asus.com/us/Graphics_Cards/STRIXGTX960DC2OC2GD5/

Some readings:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-geforce-gtx-960-launch,28435.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-gtx-960,4038.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/zotac-geforce-gtx-960-amp-edition-graphics-card,4109.html(see Load Temperature)

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/evga-super-super-clocked-gtx-960,4063-3.html(see Load Temperature)

http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-960/performance

http://benchmarkreviews.com/24899/asus-geforce-gtx-960-strix-video-card-review/

http://techreport.com/review/27806/five-geforce-gtx-960-cards-overclocked

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=GeForce+GTX+960

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2015/01/22/nvidia-geforce-gtx-960-review-feat-asus/3

http://www.legitreviews.com/asus-strix-gtx-960-video-card-review_157721

http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/asus-geforce-gtx-960-strix-2-way-sli-review,1.html

http://www.silentpcreview.com/Asus_Strix_GTX_960

http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/pc-components/graphics-cards/asus-strix-gtx-960-oc-edition-1286338/review

http://www.game-debate.com/hardware/?gid=2818&graphics=GeForce%20GTX%20960%20Asus%20Strix%20DirectCU%20II%20OC%202GB%20Edition

http://techgage.com/article/asus-strix-edition-geforce-gtx-960-graphics-card-review/

My opinion is, this is a nice and well balanced graphics card for the segment/budget.

I'm planning within 3 or 4 months buying another to put in SLI mode, let's see...

Cheers,

[eXentios]

Another fine review about Asus STRIX-GTX960:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/asus-geforce-gtx-960-strix-oc-edition,4151.html#mainSection

[DKT27]

Yup. Thanks for all the info.

About the review on Tom's Hardware, the fifth comment made by panathas is interesting, I remember them mentioning this problem previously. I think it needs to be looked into.

[dcs18]

Personally, prefer AMD over nVIDIA - have my personal reason, for that (not a Gamer, though.)

[player]

Personally, prefer AMD over nVIDIA - have my personal reason, for that (not a Gamer, though.)

for what? Bitcoin mining?

i hope no non-disclosure agreement again this time.

[dcs18]

Personally, prefer AMD over nVIDIA - have my personal reason, for that (not a Gamer, though.)

for what? Bitcoin mining?

The number of services that nVIDIA resorts to, is stupendous (to a non Gamer, like me.) <_<

i hope no non-disclosure agreement again this time.

NDA - for using a brand of graphics cards? :tehe:

[player]

a note for myself... possible issue dcs18 was talking about: GeForce Experience Beneficial or Major Security Flaw?