In Q3 2016 “Nvidia increased everything in Q3 2016. Total GPU shipments up a whopping 20.4%, from last quarter” said Jon Peddie Research in its report on the PC GPU market. Although the market was up, from sales to gamers and data centres, but it was down on Q3 sales in 2015. PC suppliers are seeing growth in gaming desktops and notebooks, JPE said, and hope this will offset the slowdown in overall PC shipments. While they are high ASP systems, the two segments combined can only contribute a few million unit shipments a year, less than the decline of the total PC market.
JPR estimates this difference between the console & PC markets
Overall, the market for desktop graphics decreased by 4%, but notebooks were up 3%, so in total, GPU shipments increased by 0.3%.
Looking by brand, AMD increased 15% Nvidia increased 39% and Intel, increased 18% from Q2.
- AMD’s overall unit shipments increased 15.38% quarter-to-quarter, Intel’s total shipments increased 17.70% from last quarter, and Nvidia’s increased 39.31%.
- The attach rate of GPUs (includes integrated and discrete GPUs) to PCs for the quarter was 146% which was up 14.96% from last quarter.
- Discrete GPUs were in 34.84% of PCs, which is up 7.06%.
- The overall PC market increased 8.09% quarter-to-quarter, and decreased -5.37% year-to-year.
- Desktop graphics add-in boards (AIBs) that use discrete GPUs increased 38.16% from last quarter.
- Q3’16 saw a decrease in tablet shipments from last quarter and saw notebook sales out sell tablets for the first time in three years.
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