PC graphics cards are booming, but only Nvidia is gaining market share
Unusually high demand in the second quarter of 2025 continues to fill Nvidia's pockets, AMD Radeon slumps even further and Intel can't seem to get a foothold.
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Donald Trump is causing a surge in demand, but this will probably only last for a short time: Market researchers report 27% more graphics cards sold in the second quarter of 2025 than in the first quarter. Nvidia in particular benefited from this with GeForce GPUs.
Jon Peddie Research (JPR) attributes the boom to concerns about price increases, for example due to customs duties. The number of desktop PCs sold also rose by 21.6 percent.
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PC sales normally fall in the second quarter of each calendar year. People tend to save money for vacations, spend more on hardware in the fourth quarter, and some also in the third quarter if they have schoolchildren.
JPR had already noticed unusually strong demand for gaming GPUs in the first quarter of 2025.
Compared to the previous year, the sales figures look less rosy: according to JPR, the number of desktop PCs sold fell by 4.4 percent, although the forced switch to Windows 11 is imminent.
Nvidia dominates
The market share of Nvidia GeForce graphics cards rose to 94 percent, while that of AMD Radeon fell by half year-on-year to just 6 percent. Intel's "Arc" series is not gaining momentum, JPR cites 0.0 percent.
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