PC GPU Shipments Declined 38% In Q4 2022, NVIDIA Retains Top Spot With AMD At 9% And Intel At 6%

Updated 3-6-2023, 1.34 PM GMT +5: This story was updated to reflect the correction issued by JPR on Intel's market share being over counted on the PC client side. Shipments for Aurora GPU were erroneously recorded as part of their GPU shipments. You can read more about the error over here.

The latest GPU market summary for the fourth quarter of 2022 has been released by Jon Peddie Research which shows NVIDIA leading the dGPU market share while Intel & AMD retain a similar share.

According to JPR's report, the global PC GPU market which includes all kinds of graphics processing units hit 64.2 million units in Q4 2022 but declined by -35% (Yearly) and -15.4% (Sequentially). These losses can be attributed to various reasons such as the rising cost of PC components & inflation too which has been affecting consumers globally.

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The current trajectory shows that GPU shipments will grow by 0.19% between 2022-2026, hitting an installed base of 3.013 Billion Units while discrete GPUs are expected to occupy 32% of the market share held within the segment. As for the segment-specific share, desktop GPUs were down by -24 percent while notebook GPUs declined by -43%. This is mentioned as the largest decrease since it peaked in 2011.

GPUs have been a leading indicator of the market because a GPU goes into a system before the suppliers ship the PC. Most of the semiconductor vendors are guiding down for the next quarter, an average of -6.44%. Last quarter, they guided an average of -0.21%, which was too high.

Jon Peddie, president of JPR, noted, "This quarter's total graphics processor shipments (integrated/embedded and discrete) decreased an astounding -15.3% from the previous quarter, contributing to a decline in the historical 10-year average rate of 6.8%. A total of 64 million units were shipped in the quarter, which was a decrease of -38.5 million units from the same quarter a year ago, indicating the GPU market is negative on a year-to-year basis.

via Jon Peddie Research

Coming to the overall PC market share hold, AMD's share increased by 0.4%, Intel's share declined by -1.1% and NVIDIA's shares increased by 0.68%. Intel still retains a 71% market share within the overall GPU segment with NVIDIA coming in at the second place at 17% and AMD at 12% market share. The discrete GPU market share declined to 13 million units but NIDIA retained its >80% market share. Intel maintained its 6% share and AMD retained 9% market share in terms of shipments.

Besides the GPU market share, JPR also shared CPU share statistics. The CPU market also declined to 54 million units (84 million units last year). Desktop CPUs amounted to 37% while Notebook CPU amounted to 63% of the market share.