Intel can break out the champagne! Well, not exactly, but it's still a significant threshold in a highly competitive market.
It's true that such information may seem a little ridiculous, given the low figure of 1%. Nevertheless, it can also be seen as a (very) small victory for Intel, which is returning to the dedicated graphics card market after an absence of over 10 years. Old-timers will remember the Larrabee project, announced by Intel in 2008, which ended in a fiasco and the outright cancellation (in 2010) of what was to ensure Intel's future in GPUs.
Since 2022, Intel has been back with dedicated graphics cards that don't aim to compete with AMD's or NVIDIA's top-of-the-range products. Rather, the ARC range is seen as a means of convincing users with smaller budgets. Alas for Intel, the sauce didn't take: three years after launch, Intel has only managed to reach the 1% market share threshold.
Intel finally appears on the dGPU sales chart © Jon Peddie Research
The figure is provided by Jon Peddie Research, an institute familiar with market studies on IT components in general, and CPUs and GPUs in particular. In the case we're interested in today, it's the GPUs that are in the spotlight, and more specifically, those that power our dedicated graphics cards. Intel is finally achieving a significant share, while NVIDIA seems to be on the back foot. AMD seems to be regaining strength, but we shouldn't overdramatize the situation for NVIDIA either.
In fact, the GeForce developer still has a 92% market share - down from 94% in the previous quarter - and is even up year-on-year. In the third quarter of 2024, NVIDIA held "only" 90% of the graphics card market, while AMD had 10%. Finally, it's important to bear in mind that these figures only concern the dedicated graphics card market. CPU-integrated graphics solutions are therefore not taken into account here: a market in which NVIDIA doesn't carry much weight.
