Despite Advanced Micro Devices' (AMD) strong Vega release, it still lost to its main graphics processing unit (GPU) competitor NVIDIA, as the third quarter reports of 2017 have shown NVIDIA's major leap ahead of AMD.
Jon Peddie Research has now published the shipment results of the third quarter of the year for the GPU market, where NVIDIA's shipments have increased aggressively by 29.53 percent from the second quarter of the year. Meanwhile, AMD has only gained 7.63 percent from the previous quarter, and while it is still an increase, it was not enough to beat NVIDIA, even with AMD's new flagship Vega GPUs in the scene.
Meanwhile, Intel, another competitor of NVIDIA in a different market has also gained 5.01 percent since the previous quarter. By comparison, the two companies have gained little compared to NVIDIA, who is now the reigning manufacturer of GPUs. The increase in shipment volumes was also attributed to both gaming and cryptocurrency mining.
While the shipment numbers are a different story especially when compared to the market shares, NVIDIA's has also increased by about three percent, while both Intel and AMD have lost 0.2 percent and 2.8 percent respectively from their own markets.
This data does not seem to bode well for AMD, as their most recent lineup of Radeon RX Vega GPUs were supposed to have traded blows with NVIDIA's flagship GPUs, not only in terms of performance but also sales. Sadly, it seems that the new AMD GPUs have disappointed users. AMD will have to step up their game next year should they want to be able to keep up with their main GPU competitor. That remains to be seen with their new and upcoming generation of GPU.
This relatively minuscule increase in the shipment of AMD GPUs was also quite puzzling, according to TweakTown, as a lot of cryptocurrency miners favor AMD video cards for their mining activity. This year has also born witness to the massive shortage in supply of AMD Radeon GPUs due to cryptocurrency. That, however, did not seem to help AMD shipment and market numbers.
