Market research firm Jon Peddie Research today announced the fourth quarter of 2017 global GPU graphics market report, mining has become an element that can not be ignored, but also make AMD made a lot of money.
Quarter GPU shipments worldwide fell 4.8% year on year, but subdivided into various sections, the only increase is the desktop discrete graphics, but an increase of 9.7%, mining and eating chicken apparently contributed.
JPR also pointed out that, More than 3 million graphics cards were bought by miners in 2017, worth a total of about $ 776 million , An average of more than 250 US dollars each, are in the high-end cards, and certainly AMD graphics accounted for the majority.
Desktop integrated graphics fell 8.3% year-on-year, led the overall desktop fell 2.1%, after all, set significantly larger than the significant independence.
Notebook, the overall decline of 6.5%, of which alone was down 5.6%, set fell 6.8%.
Intel still occupies market share 67.7% Far ahead, but fell 0.7 percentage points year on year, chain also less 0.4 percentage points.
NVIDIA 18.4% In the second place, an increase of 0.9 percentage points over the same period of the previous year but a decrease of 0.9 percentage points from the third quarter.
AMD was up 1.2 percentage points from a quarter-over-quarter to 14.2%, noting enough for the RX Vega series and lacking in other new products, obviously thanks miners.
