Graphics card market growth up year-over-year to the tune of 101 million units in Q3 2021
According to a new report, graphics cards are in demand. Huh.
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Theglobal chip shortagehas had all kinds of ramifications for the world at large. Entire industries, such as the smartphone and automotive spaces, haveclashed in order to secure chips. The United States and China continue towage war on each otherin the tech sector to influence chip production and disrupt each other’s supply chains. And, more important than any of that other stuff, PC gamers have been deprived of graphics cards with which to play the award-winning Square Enix title Marvel’s Avengers.
It’s not as though graphics cards don’t exist right now. They do, and are selling in record numbers at all-time high prices. It’s just that there aren’t enough of them to go around. It’s estimated that25% of that problemis due tocrypto enthusiastsand scalpers. However, even if gamers can’t get thebest graphics cards, the shipment figures don’t lie: NVIDIA and AMD are making bank.
According to a report from Jon Peddie Research, GPU shipments are up 12% year-over-year, though they’re down 18.2% from the heights of last quarter. Q3 2021 saw the GPU market’s growth boom to 101 million units. Intel retains 62% of the market, while NVIDIA holds 20% and AMD hangs onto 18%.
Also worth noting is that CPUs performed similarly in Q3 2021, seeing a 9% year-over-year shipment increase alongside a 23.1% quarter-to-quarter decrease.
JPR’s Jon Peddie highlighted the pandemic’s effect on these somewhat out-of-the-ordinary figures. “Covid continues to unbalance the fragile supply chain that relied too heavily upon a just-in-time strategy,” he said. “We don’t expect to see a stabilized supply chain until the end of 2022. In the meantime, there will be some surprises.”
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