Desktop Graphics Cards: Intel Back to One Percent Market Share
Intel is regaining market share in PC graphics cards but continues to occupy a niche. AMD is also seeing a slight upturn.
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In the third quarter of 2025, AMD, Intel, and Nvidia collectively sold around 12 million desktop graphics cards. This is according to an estimate by market observer Jon Peddie Research (JPR).
It credits Intel with a small success: nominally, the company is back to one percent market share. However, JPR appears to have rounded up generously. In the second quarter, Intel had a barely measurable market share of 0.0 percent, according to an earlier report. In the third quarter, the manufacturer is said to have gained 0.4 percentage points.
Applied to the approximately 12 million graphics cards, Intel likely sold just under half a million graphics cards for desktop PCs. In absolute terms, this would represent one of Intel's best quarters. At the end of 2024, the market share was higher at at least 1.2 percent, although the market was significantly weaker there with 8.4 million sales.
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Nvidia Unchallenged at the Top
Meanwhile, Nvidia remains the market leader with a 92 percent market share, or around 11 million GeForce graphics cards sold. Quarterly revenue is enormous at nearly 4.3 billion US dollars, but GeForce GPUs continue to represent only a niche for the company due to the AI boom. Nvidia generates 12 times more revenue from server hardware.
AMD's market share increases by 0.8 percentage points to around 7 percent. This puts the company between 800,000 and 850,000 Radeon models sold.
JPR notes that PC manufacturers likely bought graphics cards in a panic in the second quarter to get ahead of impending US tariffs. Therefore, the current growth of 2.8 percent for a traditionally strong third quarter is below average.
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