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Q3 2018 goes down as worst third quarter for graphics cards add-in boards
The add-in board market decreased in Q3'18 from last quarter, while Nvidia gained market share. Over $2.5 billion dollars of AIBs shipped in the Q3 quarter.
Jon Peddie Research has released its quarterly Add-in-Board report on world-wide AIB shipments used in desktop PCs for Q3'18.
Quarter-to-quarter graphics board shipments decreased by 19.2% and decreased by 36.1% year-to-year.
The market shares for the desktop discrete GPU suppliers shifted in the quarter, Nvidia increased market share from last quarter, as well as market share year-to-year.
"The third quarter is normally the strongest from the previous quarter. This quarter it was down -19.2% from the last quarter," said Dr. Jon Peddie, President of JPR. "That is below the ten-year average of 14.9% and was caused by too much inventory in the channel due to a misjudgment on the strength of the crypto-mining demand."
Since 1981, 2,083 million AIBs have been shipped. For the year $4.4 billion of AIBs have been sold.
Add-in boards (AIBs) using discrete GPUs are found in desktop PCs, workstations, servers, rendering and mining farms, and other devices such as scientific instruments. They are sold directly to customers as aftermarket products, or are factory installed by OEMs. In all cases, AIBs represent the higher end of the graphics industry with their discrete chips and private, often large, high-speed memory, as compared to the integrated GPUs in CPUs that share slower system memory.
The PC AIB market now has just two chip (GPU) suppliers which also build and sell AIBs. The primary suppliers of GPUs are AMD and Nvidia. There are 48 AIB suppliers, the AIB OEM customers of the GPU suppliers, which they call "partners."
In addition to privately branded AIBs offered worldwide, about a dozen PC suppliers offer AIBs as part of a system, and/or as an option, and some that offer AIBs as separate aftermarket products. We have been tracking AIB shipments quarterly since 1987-the volume of those boards peaked in 1999, reaching 114 million units. This quarter 9.9million shipped.
Discrete GPUs are the heart and soul of add-in boards (AIBs) and Jon Peddie Research's Add-in-Board Quarterly Report covers the market activity of PC-based graphics for Q1'18.
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#5611884 Posted on: 11/29/2018 07:15 PM
Well, let's see...the low end GTX1060 3GB I paid $169 for (and that was too much) a year ago has been $400-550 for most of that year since. I can't imagine why folks are not just scooping them up.
I am surprised the sales didn't drop by more like 80%
Well, let's see...the low end GTX1060 3GB I paid $169 for (and that was too much) a year ago has been $400-550 for most of that year since. I can't imagine why folks are not just scooping them up.
I am surprised the sales didn't drop by more like 80%
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#5611894 Posted on: 11/29/2018 07:35 PM
The next two quarters should be even worse - the mining boom didn't top out until Q1 this year. Second-hand markets are flooded with used GPUs and there's nothing new from AMD or Nvidia that's worth buying right now. It's going to be a rough few months for GPU makers.
The next two quarters should be even worse - the mining boom didn't top out until Q1 this year. Second-hand markets are flooded with used GPUs and there's nothing new from AMD or Nvidia that's worth buying right now. It's going to be a rough few months for GPU makers.
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#5611905 Posted on: 11/29/2018 07:59 PM
If fanatics boycotted, prices would reduce. But we have a community that does not care about the market, they want to buy expensive GPUs, after all, that way your penis grows in the benchmarks. Pathetic.
If fanatics boycotted, prices would reduce. But we have a community that does not care about the market, they want to buy expensive GPUs, after all, that way your penis grows in the benchmarks. Pathetic.
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#5611919 Posted on: 11/29/2018 08:33 PM
No surprise at all. It was mostly old hardware overpriced due to miners (and lack of competition at the high end) and the only new hardware we did get was also overpriced, where it's major selling point (raytracing) turned out to be a disappointment.
No surprise at all. It was mostly old hardware overpriced due to miners (and lack of competition at the high end) and the only new hardware we did get was also overpriced, where it's major selling point (raytracing) turned out to be a disappointment.
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#5611924 Posted on: 11/29/2018 08:39 PM
not surprising in the least.
while 4k tv's have finally taken off, 4k gaming has not due to expense.
add to that that the game developers are gimping many games instead of pushing the envelope. in the past i've bought at least two gpu's because of game req's.
there hasn't been a game in the last two or more years where the xx70/ x80 has been a minimum requirement. instead we get bad console ports to pc or pay for beta testing games that aren't ready for prime time.
and Nvidia certainly knows this. i'm picking on them simply because of the rtx series and their prices for them. they know fanboys and competitive gamers will buy at any price point.
not surprising in the least.
while 4k tv's have finally taken off, 4k gaming has not due to expense.
add to that that the game developers are gimping many games instead of pushing the envelope. in the past i've bought at least two gpu's because of game req's.
there hasn't been a game in the last two or more years where the xx70/ x80 has been a minimum requirement. instead we get bad console ports to pc or pay for beta testing games that aren't ready for prime time.
and Nvidia certainly knows this. i'm picking on them simply because of the rtx series and their prices for them. they know fanboys and competitive gamers will buy at any price point.
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#5611935 Posted on: 11/29/2018 09:12 PM
The prices are fucking ridiculous! That's why.
The prices are fucking ridiculous! That's why.
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#5611936 Posted on: 11/29/2018 09:14 PM
No, no ... it's the entitled gamers at fault once again
Well, guess who's to blame for that, with cards that never have been so expensive in the time I can remember.
No, no ... it's the entitled gamers at fault once again
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#5611938 Posted on: 11/29/2018 09:21 PM
I've been in the market for two new graphics cards for two years now. First the 1080ti was impossible to find, then it was close to the 2080ti release, now that thing is $1500.
How can they cry about low sales when they doubled the price?! I'm not paying 3 grand for two graphics cards!
I've been in the market for two new graphics cards for two years now. First the 1080ti was impossible to find, then it was close to the 2080ti release, now that thing is $1500.
How can they cry about low sales when they doubled the price?! I'm not paying 3 grand for two graphics cards!
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#5611955 Posted on: 11/29/2018 10:44 PM
Nvidia rolled the dice and lost, so now we have to pay for their mistakes by purchasing high-end gaming cards for $1,500.
Nvidia rolled the dice and lost, so now we have to pay for their mistakes by purchasing high-end gaming cards for $1,500.
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#5611958 Posted on: 11/29/2018 11:05 PM
I bet Nvidia and AMD are praying for another surge of demand for crypto currency...
I bet Nvidia and AMD are praying for another surge of demand for crypto currency...
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#5611996 Posted on: 11/30/2018 01:30 AM
Agreed with the exception that we do NOT NEED to purchase $1500 GPUs. Only who wants to be milked.
Nvidia rolled the dice and lost, so now we have to pay for their mistakes by purchasing high-end gaming cards for $1,500.
Agreed with the exception that we do NOT NEED to purchase $1500 GPUs. Only who wants to be milked.
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#5612015 Posted on: 11/30/2018 02:50 AM
I imagine that inflated prices on high end and midrange GPUs has caused people to opt to use integrated graphics. I personally find cards so expensive, I cannot justify an upgrade.
Agreed with the exception that we do NOT NEED to purchase $1500 GPUs. Only who wants to be milked.
I imagine that inflated prices on high end and midrange GPUs has caused people to opt to use integrated graphics. I personally find cards so expensive, I cannot justify an upgrade.
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#5612025 Posted on: 11/30/2018 03:51 AM
I expected this at current pricing and lack of useful innovation. At this time to get a 2070 which is almost equivalent to a 1080 in terms of performance costs an extra 200$ which doesn't make sense, does that mean when the 2060 drops I can pay the same as my 1080 did and get a downgrade?
I expected this at current pricing and lack of useful innovation. At this time to get a 2070 which is almost equivalent to a 1080 in terms of performance costs an extra 200$ which doesn't make sense, does that mean when the 2060 drops I can pay the same as my 1080 did and get a downgrade?
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#5612026 Posted on: 11/30/2018 04:01 AM
"The volume of those boards peaked in 1999, reaching 114 million units. This quarter 9.9 million shipped."
What they're overlooking - duh - is that today each board does maybe 50x more! And this guy is a PhD?
"The volume of those boards peaked in 1999, reaching 114 million units. This quarter 9.9 million shipped."
What they're overlooking - duh - is that today each board does maybe 50x more! And this guy is a PhD?
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Well, guess who's to blame for that, with cards that never have been so expansive in the time I can remember.