The first quarter is usually one of the slowest quarters when it comes to GPU sales and the Q1 2014 is not an exception either, but, according to Jon Peddie Research, this quarter showed that Intel managed to gain some market share, Nvidia stayed flat and AMD lost some of its GPU market share.


The Q1 2014 was not great for any of aforementioned companies as the shipments were down by 11.6 percent compared to the last quarter and by 4 percent compared to the same quarter last year.

AMD took the biggest hit as its overall GPU shipments were down by 18.2 percent when compared to the last quarter while Intel's and Nvidia's shipments also dropped by 7.9 percent and 10.4 percent, respectively.

Despite the drop in shipments, Intel's market share rose from 65.1 percent up to 66.8 percent, sequentially, while it held 60.8 percent of the market share last year. Nvidia pretty much remained flat with 16.6 percent of market share sequentially while it held 18.2 percent last year. AMD lost quite a bit of the market share as it held 20.6 percent last year, 18.3 percent in the last quarter and now holds 16.7 percent.

The low results are pretty much what everyone expected for the first quarter as that is when retailers try to unload the stock that did not managed to sell during the holiday season.



Source: JonPeddie.com.