The cost and availability, as well as the state of the market. The invasion of Ukraine. Inflation. COVID. The price of gasoline and oil. The supply chain. Climate change. Those are some of the news topics driving today’s headlines domestically and abroad. While not as staggering, technology has had garnered a few headlines of late, particularly pertaining to GPUs. Why the … [Read more...] about So, what’s the story with GPUs?
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GPUs, they’re everywhere
…just not for you. Gamers, professionals, and enthusiasts can all be forgiven if they’ve become just a little bit impatient with sky-high prices for graphics boards. The current GPU shortage has been going on for years now, accompanied by conflicting reports and new assurances that the situation has improved. And, in fact, just recently we’ve seen a raft of new … [Read more...] about GPUs, they’re everywhere
CES 2022 highlights: AMD, Intel, Nvidia, Qualcomm
Can you even believe an in-person CES happened? CES 2022 started the year out with a bang, staging an in-person event in that charming little burg in Nevada, However, several dozens of the biggest and smartest companies chose not to go share the air with the unknown, unwashed, and unvaccinated throngs populating the casinos. AMD, Intel, and Nvidia all held virtual … [Read more...] about CES 2022 highlights: AMD, Intel, Nvidia, Qualcomm
Done with ’21, what’s new for ’22
2021 was an uneventful year for GPUs and AIBs. Neither AMD nor Nvidia introduced a new GPU architecture, and only released AIBs based on derivatives of their 2020 GPUs. It will be mid-February before we get the final results, but we estimate the desktop PCs will hit 117 million, notebooks 297 million, workstations 3.5 million, and tablets 170 million units in … [Read more...] about Done with ’21, what’s new for ’22
Benchmarking the Radeon Pro W5700
Performance: relative to its predecessor and the most comparable Nvidia offering. As is our practice when evaluating workstation-class graphics AIBs, we ran SPEC's Viewperf, in this case the newest version 13. Viewperf focuses workload on the graphics AIB, such that the rest of the system isn't (or at least shouldn't often be) the bottleneck. As a result, Viewperf will give a … [Read more...] about Benchmarking the Radeon Pro W5700
JPR report: The GPU market increased year-to-year by 3.4%; sequentially GPU shipments decreased -10%
JPR's Q1’18 Market Watch report on PC GPU shipments is now available. Jon Peddie Research, the industry's market research firm for the graphics industry, has updated it's quarterly Market Watch report. Overall, the report finds the cryptocurrency market is continuing to influence the PC graphics market, though its influence is waning. Market Watch found that year-to-year … [Read more...] about JPR report: The GPU market increased year-to-year by 3.4%; sequentially GPU shipments decreased -10%
Graphics board shipments down 17% in second quarter
Nvidia continues to hold a dominant market share position. Jon Peddie Research (JPR) reports shipments of graphics add-in cards (AIBs) dropped 17.6% year-over-year in the second quarter of 2014. JPR says AIB shipments behaved according to past years with regard to seasonality, but the decrease was more than the 10-year average. On a sequential basis … [Read more...] about Graphics board shipments down 17% in second quarter
Add-in board market up in Q4, Nvidia gains market share
Quarter-to-quarter AIBs shipments increased 3%, and grew 3% year-to-year. Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry’s research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, announced estimated graphics add-in-board (AIB) shipments and suppliers’ market share for Q4, 2013. Quarter-to-quarter, the market grew 3%, compared to the desktop PC market, which increased 4.45%. On a … [Read more...] about Add-in board market up in Q4, Nvidia gains market share
Graphics add-in board market down in second quarter
AMD gained market share even though the total number of boards sold went down. Jon Peddie Research (JPR) says shipments of graphics add-in boards (AIBs) declined 5.4% in the second quarter of 2013, on a quarter-to-quarter (sequential) basis. Year-over-year the drop was almost identical, at 5.2%. The overall PC desktop market declined 3.7% quarter-to-quarter including … [Read more...] about Graphics add-in board market down in second quarter
Graphics add-in board shipments down 6.5% in fourth quarter
Is seasonality coming back to the market? An update from Jon Peddie Research. Overall shipments of graphics add-in boards (AIBs) for the fourth quarter of 2011 came in above the last quarter at 16.1 million units compared to 17.2 million for 3Q11, according to the latest market report from Jon Peddie Research (JPR). The evolution of the graphics market has resulted in two … [Read more...] about Graphics add-in board shipments down 6.5% in fourth quarter