It’s been more than a decade since PC GPU sales have dropped by this much. There is no immediate improvement in sight, although GPU manufacturers have their components sold elsewhere.

Just as Intel sits down for a piece of the pie, the GPU market plummets. After all, sales of GPUs especially for laptops and desktops are experiencing an enormous slump compared to the previous year. According to Jon Peddie Research, sales in the final quarter of 2022 fell 38 percent overall: 24 percent for desktops and 43 percent for laptops. The decrease is mainly due to the general decline in PC sales. After all, the total volume of devices sold is lower and Peddie also includes integrated GPUs in the numbers.

Intel Champion

Intel is and remains the market leader. After all, most computers sold are laptops with an Intel CPU and no additional GPU, so the integrated graphics on the processor act as a graphics card. Intel has a market share of 71 percent.

Nvidia is the second largest player with seventeen percent, followed by AMD with twelve percent. That’s notable since AMD can rely on both discrete GPU sales and the graphics component in its APUs for the numbers. The numbers show so clearly that Intel is the lord and master when it comes to selling discrete graphics chips.

We can also see this in the decline, which at Nvidia is the lowest at 11.7 percent compared to the previous quarter. At AMD, the decline is 12.7 percent, Intel has to swallow 16.5 percent. The result is impressive: In absolute terms, the market saw a slump of 38.5 million fewer GPUs shipped compared to the previous year. It’s also been eleven years since GPUs have performed so poorly. Forecasts for the next quarter aren’t much better right away.

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That doesn’t mean GPU manufacturers are in sacks and ashes. JPR’s numbers only indicate GPUs in computers. The situation in the server market is very different. There, the rise of AI is leading to a growing demand for powerful GPUs to support training and inference.