[JPR] YoY Graphics Card Sales Continue to Decline, Marketshare by Supplier

[Techhog]

I think this forum is actually far more balanced towards AMD GPUs than the public at large. Outside this forum most people really only know GeForce. AMDs branding is and has always been kind of idiotic. GeForce sounds cool and powerful. Radeon sounds like something that will literally hurt you, like give you cancer or something. Who knows how many sales have been lost due to that silliness alone. But AMD keeps doing it. A10 and FX are unsearchable terms. i7, i5, i3, pentium, and even celeron are searchable terms. Sure you might get some BMW products mixed in with your results, but by and large when you search for these terms you tend to get intel products. When you search for AMD A10, the first thing that happens is the search engine autocorrects "AMD" to "AND". lol. And the A10 yields a whole bunch of ARM products, usually cheap chinese tablets.

I started typing "amd" into Google, and one of the suggestions was "amd a10." Typing "i3" only produces one result for Intel on the first page.

 

[MrTeal]

I started typing "amd" into Google, and one of the suggestions was "amd a10." Typing "i3" only produces one result for Intel on the first page.

You should probably use AMD A10 and Intel i3, or just A10 and i3. The former gives all relevant results for both, while the latter gives crappy results for both.

You could argue that AMD's results are better though, since the Thunderbolt II is way more interesting than a small BMW.

 

[Piroko]

You guys realize that google tracks your search history? I don't get a single mention of Intel on the first page if i search "i3", only lots of BMWs. A private page gets me one Intel related link on position 7.

 

[poofyhairguy]

But they do not. Any reputable site shows 380 outperforming the 960. Look at 950/960 outselling 380 by a lot and how far behind they are:

hmmm...Good point.

 

[sm625]

Try amazon.com or slickdeals or bradsdeals

 

[AtenRa]

You guys realize that google tracks your search history? I don't get a single mention of Intel on the first page if i search "i3", only lots of BMWs. A private page gets me one Intel related link on position 7.

Yea, i was going to say im missing something here.

 

[railven]

You guys realize that google tracks your search history? I don't get a single mention of Intel on the first page if i search "i3", only lots of BMWs. A private page gets me one Intel related link on position 7.

Well aware of that, why I used Internet Explorer on the work PC. Since it goes through a proxy and the history cache is cleaned daily.

If you didn't get that www.a10.com website, I dunno what to say. "i3" first hit was Intel, but image search was BMW and second hit was BMW.

Also, first hit was sponsored, so perhaps Intel is paying more than BMW for search hits. Haha.

 

[railven]

I think this forum is actually far more balanced towards AMD GPUs than the public at large. Outside this forum most people really only know GeForce. AMDs branding is and has always been kind of idiotic. GeForce sounds cool and powerful. Radeon sounds like something that will literally hurt you, like give you cancer or something. Who knows how many sales have been lost due to that silliness alone. But AMD keeps doing it. A10 and FX are unsearchable terms. i7, i5, i3, pentium, and even celeron are searchable terms. Sure you might get some BMW products mixed in with your results, but by and large when you search for these terms you tend to get intel products. When you search for AMD A10, the first thing that happens is the search engine autocorrects "AMD" to "AND". lol. And the A10 yields a whole bunch of ARM products, usually cheap chinese tablets.

Wanted to respond to this post but work called. This place is definitely balanced in the AMD vs Nvidia side of things. At least I always felt that way, why I would post regularly here.

Name wise, though, Radeon is by far the better name in my opinion. It always reminded me of Raytheon (living in Massachusetts, it's a common name/business). GeForce, well I never understood what that meant. Someone once told it was basically G-Force, ie the physics calculation. If so, okay, makes even less sense than Radeon for graphics card names haha.

Anyways, regardless what I think, just from talking to my personal PC friends, AMD/ATI was definitely not winning any popularity contest. Of the 5-6 heavy PC gamers, only I rocked Radeons. I think AMD dropping the ATI name sort of hurt them (GPU/Radeons) more as AMD (the name/brand itself) had fallen into a cliche of "value-brand."

Now you got consoles that are already been panned for being slow tied to AMD hardware. The excuse of "it wass cheaper" keeps coming up. When the console peasants start slamming the hardware of 2-year old consoles, welps there goes any street cred you might have built up.

 

[SamuelBui]

Prices for Nvidia cards have been creeping down, GTX980 TI can be bought for under $600 and GTX980's at $450. Nvidia cards also have a game bundle. Coupled with the incoming holidays, AIB's are likely to keep prices down and volume high.

On another note, price drops are a good sign that Pascal's introduction is close. Hopefully Q1 2016.

I wonder prices for Nvidia cards has fallen yet? To run Jigsaw planet games, i really need it.

 

[sm625]

so amd actually gained 0.8% haahah not even 1% at least it didn't lose any.

I prefer to think of it in terms of how much AMD has gained back what they lost over a year. In a quarter, they gained back maybe 12% of what they lost over the last year. Dead cat bounce.

 

[AtenRa]

High-end add-in boards shipments increased in Q1 2016, while all else declined

https://www.jonpeddie.com/publications/add-in-board-report

Q1 2016

 

[AtenRa]

Also,

The AIB is here to tell ya, I’m not dead yet

https://www.jonpeddie.com/back-pages/comments/the-aib-is-here-to-tell-ya-im-not-dead-yet