AMD retakes GPU sales Q2 2013
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Darren Hodgson
CPC_RedDawn
Icanium
Amazing they could accomplish this with no cards in Steams top ten.
PhazeDelta1
Not everyone takes those hardware surveys.
schmidtbag
icedman
Good for AMD ive always used NVidia since a bad experience with an agp radeon I got, But because of NVidia being overpriced my next card will definitely be AMD
sykozis
Redemption80
People only say that if they think a PC should only be used for gaming and nothing else, then those same people complain when non gamers start ditching PC's for tablets.
At the moment my next GPU will be an AMD one, but i still don't think this article accurately reflects the PC gaming market right now.
If AMD keeps the support and the bundles up then in the future then it might do, but right now i still think Nvidia is the dominant vendor when it comes to PC gaming.
sykozis
schmidtbag
17seconds
I definitely put more credence into the Steam survey because you KNOW those are gamers. No sense in counting those e-mailing senior citizens. On Steam, looking at DirectX 11 cards, i.e newer generation cards, Nvidia represents more than half of PCs, while AMD is barely a third.
So anyone complaining about Nvidia's horrible prices needs to understand they are selling their mid to high end GPU's at a rate of almost 2 to 1 over AMD..... at those terrible high prices. AMD, on the other hand, is selling theirs on the cheap, because they have to, to sell cards and compete. All you have to do is go back to the introductory price of the 7970, $550US, to know that if AMD could charge more, you better believe that they would.
sykozis
17seconds
Just because every gamer doesn't use Steam or even agree to participate in the survey doesn't mean that the overall ratio is off. There is nothing to indicate that the ratios are inherently biased for or against AMD or Nvidia. For example, there is nothing to indicate that more Nvidia owners use Steam and are therefore overrepresented; or that more AMD users refuse to participate in the survey and are underrepresented. The ratios are accurate, Nvidia is outselling AMD by nearly 2 to 1 in the DirectX 11 gaming video card segment, and prices reflect that.
Chillin
I'm curious, does the AMD iGPU systems count towards them as it does for Intel? If so, that could help explain some the difference. I'm curious to know what the discrete market share numbers are.
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Good on ya AMD! keep it up.
IcE
sykozis
DSparil
I think this is a clear reflection of AMD including great gaming bundles with their cards. NVIDIA just cannot compete with that atm.
Anarion