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GPU shipments fall Q1 '08

By | May 2, 2008, 12:04pm PDT

According to Jon Peddie Research, GPU shipments this quarter fell by levels not seen since 2005.

The report shows that GPU shipments fell by 5.6% compared to Q4 07. However, on a positive note, shipments are up 20% compared to Q1 07.

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Intel continues to lead the field thanks to its grip on the integrated graphics market. Good news for AMD in that shipments are up, but the company still lost ground to rival nVIDIA.

According to Jon Peddie Research, we should keep a close eye on Q2 sales given that ATi and nVIDIA both have no new GPU revisions planned for that period.

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RE: GPU shipments fall Q1 '08
McGiver2K7 5th May 2008
Doesn't anyone know that GPU's are getting ready to become obsoleted by the next step in Graphical advancsement? Could that be what is behind this misleading numbers game that got me to read this in the first place? Go figure.....
S. Layman
ATI may look better in some artificial benchmarks, but it seems nVidia does better in real world tests. You recently whined about how your crossfire configuration with ATI only got about 25 frames/second with Crysis set to "high" - and I pulled off the same frame rate with a single GeForce 9600 at the same settings. nVidia was the first manufacturer with DirectX 10 support, and they've been leading the pack ever since.

Sorry, but ATI's cards are still struggling to meet the demands of high end games. Until they can come out with cards that will compete with nVidia's newest 9 series, they'll stay behind.

Intel, of course, leads in regular systems where the customer doesn't care about games, so they'll keep their lead. But if you look at the gaming market instead of the general population, the numbers change significantly towards nVidia and ATI, because Intel doesn't do very well with gaming.

Interesting, though, as I type this: It appears that Intel is actually behind as far as ZDNet audience goes. I guess most of us are gamers as well as techies happy.
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Not only that...
Kaiwai 4th May 2008
But many people like me have chosen to go for Nvidia because they support alternative operating systems like Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris the best. AMD had their chance - they continually snubbed the opensource community - and it isn't until their ship is sinking that they finally off a few morsels to the opensource community. If AMD went bankrupt tomorrow, I don't think a single person would actually give a toss.

There are gamers, but also there are end users such as I who nvidia bank on to purchase their high end GPU's to make the margins. Too bad ATI hasn't woken up yet. Nvidia is taking share from the top, Intel from the bottom, and Ati is being strangled in the middle.
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i get 29 FPS with my 8800GTX with crysis on high settings. and i only have a q6600.
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Consoles
Marcos El Malo 5th May 2008
Consoles, consoles, consoles, consoles! [throws chair]
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Misleading numbers....
BillDem 5th May 2008
What they don't take into consideration is how few of those Intel GPU units actually get used. They are dumped onto a huge number of motherboards, but people frequently disable the built-in Intel graphics and use an nVidia or AMD GPU instead.
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RE: GPU shipments fall Q1 '08
McGiver2K7 5th May 2008
Doesn't anyone know that GPU's are getting ready to become obsoleted by the next step in Graphical advancsement? Could that be what is behind this misleading numbers game that got me to read this in the first place? Go figure.....
S. Layman

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