News - NVIDIA shipping twice as many discrete graphics cards as ATI?

[HEXUS]

Mercury Research numbers reveal all.

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[kalniel]

We wonder if the market-share stats will change, and if so by how much, when the new, high-end parts hit the shelves this summer.

It won't. High end parts don't contribute much to market share - cheap and cheerful laptop chips count for most of it I expect, despite it supposedly being discrete (that just means the chip is dedicated to GPU).

nVidia pumped out huge numbers of G8x and G9x chips.

[Stringent]

Shipped does not equate to purchased either.

[bradyjames]

I was surprised by these figures. To me the discrete propositions from AMD and Nvidia have seemed to be pretty well balanced over the last year or so. I wonder how much the lack of support for DX10.1 has hurt AMD - that was the one thing that might have given a significant technical advantage to them.