Nvidia Dominates GPU Shipments With 94% Share

An anonymous reader shares a report: The total number of GPUs sold for the second quarter of 2025 hit 11.6 million units, while desktop PC CPUs went up to 21.7 million units, according to a Jon Peddie Research report. This is a 27% increase in graphics card shipments and a 21.6% jump in CPU shipments from the last quarter, which is a change from the usual drop in deliveries we've seen in recent years.

"AIB prices dropped for midrange and entry-level, while high-end AIB prices increased, and most retail suppliers ran out of stock. This is very unusual for the second quarter," said Jon Peddie Research president Dr. Jon Peddie. "We think it is a continuation of higher prices expected due to the tariffs and buyers trying to get ahead of that."

As for the three major GPU manufacturers, Nvidia still has the lead, taking in 94% of the market -- an increase of 2.1% over the previous quarter -- while AMD is at a distant second place with 6%. This is still a much better position than Intel, though, whose market share is so small it did not even register on the chart.

Yes, so?

[gweihir]

Still not going to buy from those scammers.

Except none of them are actually being utilized...

[PubJeezy]

Except none of them are actually being utilized in any productive way. They're a scam company and they're simply side-selling their product to other corporate customers. Taxpayers are the ones actually paying for this unproductive crap.

It just game out that almost half of Nvidia's sales are going to two customers building data centers. These data centers are being built with massive amounts of tax breaks and govt subsidies. So the govt gives Microsoft a bunch of free money to buy crap. They spend it on GPU

Re: Except none of them are actually being utilize

[walbourn]

The AI datacenter buildout is being done almost exclusively with private equity. The federal government isn't funding it. Besides unless it ends up in Trump's pocket, the federal budget is being gutted.

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[siege72]

I was going to reply to your points, but then I realized this is a Gish Gallop.

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[PubJeezy]

It's called supply-chain-holism. It's how adults need to communicate nowadays. All business is essentially being done by vertical monopolies or corporate cartels. The idea is that NVidia really really wants to talk about their sales but they don't want to talk about who's buying them or what they're doing with them. That's because the answers are that they're essentially buying them from themselves and using them to create false scarcity.

Big tech cartels buying from other big tech cartels in order to creat

Surreal market dominance

[sodul]

I'm a bit baffled that there is so little market share for other players. AMD is only 6% and Intel is insignificant? It's like saying Toyota has 94% market share because their cars are so much better than everyone else. Is this all for the AI bubble, where Nvidia has the better software frameworks, akin the roads are made of Toyota only so you need to buy a Toyota if you want to go anywhere? What about video games market, which is the original market for Nvidia? I would assume that AMD has more than a tiny

Re: Surreal market dominance

[walbourn]

The vast majority of those cards are not being used as video cards. AMD and Intel still make those.

Which is why I'm boycotting Nvidia

[2TecTom]

There's little need for newer Nvidia GPUs in competitive gaming anymore, we all run with our graphics settings tuned to performance mode anyways. All that eye candy doesn't help. Ray tracing is still basically unusable in many games as well. The price of the new cards is prohibitive and exploitive and the market is hostile to average consumers, my solution is to boycott the high end and look for deals in the middle and the used marketplace, for instance, just look at RTX 3090 prices. That a four year old ca