NVIDIA Market Share Hammered By ATI
Posted by: [NT] on: 08/15/2003 06:34 PM [ Print | 11 comment(s) ] · 1360 views
A report from Mercury Research on the third quarter 2003 graphics market, indicates that ATI has gained market share at the expense of its fierce enemy, NVIDIA.
The report forecasts that 48.9 million graphics chips were shipped in Q2, a figure that's down five per cent from the previous quarter but 16% up year on year.
Intel as well as ATI were winners. ATI gained 1.6% to hold 21 per cent of the total graphics chip market, Intel gained five per cent and held 32%, while NVIDIA lost market share by 4.5% to 27%.
The market share gap between ATI and NVIDIA is now only six points, the smallest in the last six quarters.
Source : The Inquirer
The report forecasts that 48.9 million graphics chips were shipped in Q2, a figure that's down five per cent from the previous quarter but 16% up year on year.
Intel as well as ATI were winners. ATI gained 1.6% to hold 21 per cent of the total graphics chip market, Intel gained five per cent and held 32%, while NVIDIA lost market share by 4.5% to 27%.
The market share gap between ATI and NVIDIA is now only six points, the smallest in the last six quarters.
Source : The Inquirer
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Devourer Unregistered |
#46318 Posted on: 08/15/2003 08:29 PM
This isn't news untill Digitalwanderer posts here. :P |
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shaderboy Unregistered |
#46319 Posted on: 08/15/2003 08:34 PM
Go to rage3D he already has !! Its well deserved, they have improved a lot since the 9700 was launched. |
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BigBerthaEA Unregistered |
#46320 Posted on: 08/15/2003 09:00 PM
I cannot argue with that....ATI is doing all the right things... |
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intellimoo Unregistered |
#46331 Posted on: 08/15/2003 11:12 PM
SO hard to believe when ati writes an extremely inferior Windows driver for their stuff. Guess people care more about 5 fps more in games than crashing every 10 minutes doing just normal things like when NOT running games.. lol |
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shaderboy Unregistered |
#46333 Posted on: 08/16/2003 12:07 AM
Comments like that are what is holding ATI back. I run multiple machines with ATI cards and none of them have trouble, even those that are overclocked. Face it ATI are better than they used to be and the catalyst drivers are very good. Yes lots of issues are listed with each driver release, but this is because they are telling you what is wrong, which is more than can be said for the other IHVs who tell you nothing. |
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El_Coyote Senior Member Posts: 555 Joined: 2002-12-18 |
#46340 Posted on: 08/16/2003 01:26 AM
soo ati makes bad drivers? find me just one recent driver review that supports your claim. |
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BetrayerX Unregistered |
#46342 Posted on: 08/16/2003 04:20 AM
You OBVIOUSLY haven't tried a 9x00 on your life....don't post this senseless rethoric. |
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BetrayerX Unregistered |
#46343 Posted on: 08/16/2003 04:27 AM
Replying to intellimoo of course. I'll post some evidence...software that run fine on my machine. HomeWorld Cataclysm NOLF2 RTCW UT2003 Unreal 2 Cinema 4D Vue DSprit Quake 3 Bid for Power Medal of Honor ORB Warcraft3 + Frozen Throne Jedi Knight 3 All benchmark stuff. Splinter Cell Wolverines Revenge Dunno what else ...I install and uninstall a lot of things around....no bugs... |
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digitalwonderer Unregistered |
#46353 Posted on: 08/16/2003 03:48 PM
Actually this report is over 2 weeks old and has been pretty thoroughly dissected over at B3D already. Mercury Research is a paid consultancy group, and they used shipped products rather than sold products for their numbers. (nVidia ships 10k 5200 to BestBuy with the agreement they'll buy back any unsold ones. Assume BestBuy sells half of 'em, then they return 5K to nVidia who refunds what they paid for 'em. Mercury would count that as 10k cards when in reality only 5k cards are sold.) I'm kind of surprised that Mercury gave them that unfavorable of a report, ATi is totally dominating the mid & high level. Next product cycle they'll be dropping their R3xx technology into their low-end line up too and I don't expect the 5200 to be QUITE as popular when that happens.  (And it should be happening within about a month.  )
In other news, it's Saturday morning and I'm feeling good.  |
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digitalwonderer Unregistered |
#46354 Posted on: 08/16/2003 03:50 PM
You're just being nice 'cause I'm thinking of picking up Tiger Woods 2004 and getting back into golf gaming. (I must be getting older, I'm thinking of starting up virtual golfing... ) |
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BigBerthaEA Unregistered |
#46360 Posted on: 08/16/2003 06:12 PM
No, actually I am just stating what is very obvious to many people. Has nothing to do with you unfortunately. |
