Video cards up nearly 40% last year.

[Wreckage]

http://www.hardocp.com/news.html?news=MjM2NjksLCxobmV3cywsLDE=

 

[n7]

The results that i would actually like to see is which cards were actually selling.

(As in price brackets.)

 

[Cheex]

Its Oblivion's fault.....😉

 

[schneiderguy]

:thumbsup: Nice to see that nvidia or ATI probably wont go out of business anytime soon 🙂

 

[NanoStuff]

Hard to compare it to consoles. It does say workstation market, not gaming.

 

[Wreckage]

Originally posted by: NanoStuff
Hard to compare it to consoles. It does say workstation market, not gaming.

With all the hype the 3 consoles got over the holiday, it's nice to see video cards are still selling well. DX10 and Vista should only make things better.

 

[NanoStuff]

Again, workstation market, not gaming 🙂 It's hardly surprising workstation video card sales are going up, they have been going up since they existed.

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: n7
The results that i would actually like to see is which cards were actually selling.

(As in price brackets.)

a few more details from the original source:
Graphics cards up 37.3% in 2006 ... ZDNet research

The workstation market showed continued strength, with vendors shipping roughly 623 thousand workstations, accounting for about $1.5 bln in revenue. YTY quarterly volume was up 17% and revenue up 10.5%, Jon Peddie Research says. Results for the closely coupled professional graphics market were similarly stronger, with units up 37.3% to 869.1 thousand and revenue up 15.4% to $284.1 mln. Dell held on to its top position as workstation vendor, with a 41% market share (units). And Intel stayed dominant as the primary platform supplier, represented in roughly 92% of machines shipped. ATI?s share of workstation graphics hardware declined in Q3 to 19.1%, down from 24.4% in the previous quarter, while Nvidia (77.8%) retained dominance in the market. The drop begged the question as to if - and how much - AMD?s Q3 acquisition of ATI adversely affected the latter?s market position.

this appears to only refer to Pro and workstation gfx 😉

 

[Arcada]

Originally posted by: schneiderguy
:thumbsup: Nice to see that nvidia or AMD probably wont go out of business anytime soon 🙂

Fixed.

 

[CorCentral]

You can see that the retail gaming stores provide more to the console than the Pc in the last 2 years or so.

One "TINY" section is all the pc gets anymore!
Hell, the GBA has a bigger damn section in those stores than the pc!


Go video cards!