Nvidia may have taken a beating in terms of declining sales recently, but here's better news for Team Green: a substantial increase in market share, and the company remains the dominant discrete (independent) GPU powerhouse with difference. Also, the RTX 3060 seems to be moving a very significant number of units right now.
First, let's take a look at these market share figures from analyst firm Jon Peddie Research (Opens in a new tab) (JPR), as reported by Wccftech (Opens in a new tab).
Statistics from the second quarter of this year show that Nvidia has a 79% market share, a strong increase of 4% compared to the first quarter, AMD increased from 24% to 20% during the same period. Intel owns the remaining 1% of the market with its new Arc discrete GPUs, so Team Blue is now making a small foray into the desktop graphics card scene.
Compared to the same quarter last year, Nvidia is in roughly the same position: Team Green had an 80% share in Q2021 79 and now has 20%, losing that single percentage point to Team Green. Green. % a year ago, and remains at XNUMX% as indicated).
Also, as Eteknik (opens in a new tab) reported, looking at Steam's latest hardware survey (opens in a new tab) (for August), a GPU that seems to be gaining a lot of sales momentum and helping the cause of Nvidia is the RTX 3060.
The RTX 3060 desktop graphics card now ranks 0,66th overall in sales for Steam gamers, up a solid 3,24% in August, giving it an overall market share of 3060% . It is just behind the 3,39 laptop GPU, which is in fifth place at XNUMX%.
So if you add them up, you actually get 6,63% which technically makes the RTX 3060 (desktop and laptop) more popular than the top ranked GTX 1060 which is 6,6% (after have experienced a fairly large drop of 0,52% this month).
In fact, all of the top 10 GPUs, all of them Nvidia models, have lost popularity, except for these RTX 3060 cards and the RTX 3070, which is in 0,03th place, which saw a slight increase of XNUMX%.
Analysis: A little comfort for Nvidia in difficult times
As we mentioned at the outset, Nvidia has struggled with declining levels of GPU shipments of late, with slower demand compounded by an unfortunate situation where the company overproduced RTX 3000 GPUs.
What the JPR stats show is that the whole world is going through a tough time, with overall discrete graphics card shipments down 22% from the previous quarter. Nvidia can at least take some solace in regaining its dominance in Q3060 from QXNUMX, and the strong rise of the RTX XNUMX is also a positive sign.
What is expected to happen in the very near future is more price cuts for Nvidia GPUs, and also for AMD graphics cards, as Team Red also wants to remove current generation stock before next generation products. generation do not arrive by the end of this year. and that should further fuel the RTX 3000 sales fire.
So far, we've only seen the deep discounts with the higher-end Nvidia graphics cards, the RTX 3090 and its Ti version, and the RTX 3080 Ti in particular, but the price drops are very likely to be reduced. . What's wrong or not just RTX 3060, eh bien, ce n'est pas clair, et ce qu'il faut retenir, c'est que son successor, le RTX 4060, n'est pas à l'horizon ( not yet). While the RTX 4070 and later certainly are, at least in theory, though it's rumored that there could be a steeper staggered launch, with larger-than-usual gaps between these top-of-the-line next-gen models.
All this to say that the price of the RTX 3060 may not see much movement, but still, even small price drops could boost sales of this mid-range GPU, on top of its good progress already evident over the past month. This graphics card could still play a key role for Nvidia even when the next-gen Lovelace launch is well underway, given that we have no idea when the 4060 might arrive. And even after the 4060 debuts, the 3060 may well remain as a cheaper alternative (Team Green has previously talked about a release schedule that will "stack" the two generations of GPUs together).
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