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GPU sales grew a staggering 20 percent by the end of 2020, driven by games caused by a pandemic, a new mining crackdown, and high demand for laptops, according to a new report from Jon Peddie Research.
But there is a light at the end of the tunnel – for gamers, at least. The GPU-based crypto-currency temptation, which is on the existing cards limited by speed and locust mercy, is probably going wrong.
Jon Peddie of JPR, which has been following the graphics market for more than three decades, said the new Ethereum variant is likely to kill the cost – effectiveness of using GPUs.
“Ethereum, the most suitable coin for GPUs, will go into version 2.0 very quickly, making GPUs useless,” he explained. “It would be very foolish to invest in a high-powered, power-consuming AIB [add-in-board, in this case a discrete graphics card] for crypto mining today. “
However, the demand for gaming PCs and GPUs caused quite impressive growth in 2020, JPR said. Much of the growth is expected to have begun in 2020 in the third quarter, during the traditional back-to-school shopping season. With many students still attending virtual classes, computers were even hotter materials than they were earlier in the year, when the pandemic shutdown first put people inside.
That strong third quarter created a move going into the fourth quarter. Citing growth percentages rather than unit sizes, the research firm said the fourth quarter saw a 20.5 percent increase in GPU units. AMD and Intel took the biggest advantage – their GPU loads increased 6.4 percent and 33.2 percent, respectively. Total GPU units shipped for the whole of 2020 increased 12.4 percent year over year.
JPR doesn’t say for sure how many or what type of GPU was removed, but it seems that AMD and Intel ‘s graphics corals connected to the companies’ mobile CPUs make up the biggest chunk. . Nvidia’s unique GPU makers declined 7.3 percent in the same quarter, another indication that AMD / Intel’s integrated graphics led the rise.
Don’t feel too sorry for Nvidia, though. The company certainly saw its unique graphics market share grow to 82 percent for the last quarter of 2020, compared to its 73 percent share in Q4 2019.
Intel does not yet have a presence in real graphics alone, so those numbers mean that AMD has seen its share decline to 18 percent, from the 27 percent share it held in the fourth quarter. end of 2019.
All enthusiasts are selling graphics cards separately – none of this goes with mobile graphics. JPR is expected to take a more focused look at board insert sales soon, so keep an eye out for that.
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