Pantalaimon
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AMD started out with 100% of DX11 market share, since for 6 months they were the only company with DX11 hardware.
And the way percentages work, if nvidia and AMD sell equal amount of cards, nvidia will still be gaining as long as AMD retains more than 50% market share.
Anyways, they bragged about it because it was true, but recall that they said market share, not "percent of cards sold this month". the difference is huge.
ATI press release says they have shipped 25 million DX11 chips since launch, which according to them is 90% market share in DX11. That would mean NVIDIA has shipped about 2,8 million. This was in mid October.
According to Q3 shipment numbers, NVDIA shipped 16.7 million chips in Q3 (desktop + mobile) vs ATI's 16.95 . So even if NVIDIA had shipped all their DX11 chips during Q3 to get that 2,8 million (which they did not unless you think NVIDIA didn't ship any DX11 chips during Q2), it would still means that Fermi is quite behind the HD5XXX series during Q3 in shipped units.
