Nvidia is blowing away AMD for GPU sales right now

Date:
Fri, 06 May 2022 11:13:53 +0000

Description:
If Neweggs top selling GPUs are anything to go by over in the US, AMD is having a seriously tough time of it.

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Nvidia is totally ruling the GPU roost over AMD right now, at least going by Neweggs ranking of graphics card sales, with Team Green dominating its rival to a seemingly unprecedented extent.

Toms Hardware pointed out that the top 10 best-selling graphics card listed by the US retailer are GeForce models at the time of writing.

In fact, the entire top 20 models are all Nvidia products, with one exception
an AMD entry at number 15, which is the MSI Mech Radeon RX 6600. To frame that another way, 95% of the top 20 graphics cards are made by Nvidia, and those are all Ampere (RTX 3000) GPUs, except for the RTX 2060 at number 17.

Whats also interesting to note is that the top dog sellers are quite
expensive Nvidia GPUs, namely the RTX 3070 Ti , a trio of models of which
hold the top three positions, and theyre followed by a 3060 Ti, then an RTX 3050 an affordable option, of course but at number six theres an RTX 3080 Ti.

Theres a bit of an oddity here given that the RTX 3060 Ti at number 4 is actually a tad more expensive than the RTX 3070 Ti in second place (both are Gigabyte cards), but the latter has had a big price cut to $700 , and the former is only being offered by a third-party seller now, so presumably
Newegg was selling it a good chunk cheaper until very recently when it ran
out of stock. Analysis: A real head-scratcher, make no mistake

This is certainly a surprising situation. Nvidias dominance in desktop GPUs
is well-established if you look at any report, mind its generally at around the 80% market share level , or high 70s but Team Greens ownership is taken to new levels at Newegg currently.

So whats going on here? Of course, Nvidia graphics card prices have been dropping recently , and there are some compelling looking deals right now as
a result but AMDs price tags have also been heading downwards, and equally there are some tempting price reductions for Team Red , too.

That RX 6600 which is the only AMD GPU to make the cut for the top 20 is
not far off its MSRP now, and is just over 10% cheaper than the most affordable RTX 3060 in Neweggs rankings at the time of writing with both of those cards being fairly even in overall performance terms, as we observed in our review . Indeed, that RX 6600 doesnt cost much more than the RTX 3050
much higher up in the list (youre looking at 10% more for the AMD GPU).

Were really not sure why AMDs RX 6000 products are being kept out of the top 20 so convincingly right now. Toms suggests this could be down to Nvidia mindshare, but as noted already, Team Green has always had that advantage
and there are no real reasons why anything would have changed in that regard all that much in recent times.

Perhaps there has been some serious pent-up demand for beefier Nvidia RTX
3000 models, and with pricing finally starting to normalize, those buyers are making a move. Although that still doesnt explain the extent of Nvidias domination here, even further down the pricing tiers, and all-in-all, this is a bit of a head-scratcher.

Naturally, we cant put too much stock in a single source this is just a snapshot of the market from one retailer, after all but one thing it might point to, perhaps, is more compelling price cuts from AMD to get back into
the game a bit more. Particularly as new RDNA 2 refreshes are rumored to be due imminently , including the RX 6950 XT, which should knock down the
pricing of the existing graphics cards that these revamped models will be a step up from (namely the RX 6900, 6700 and that 6600).

All of this should be good news for gamers looking for GPU prices to come
down further still... Maybe jabs like Nvidia having at pop at AMDs graphics drivers have more effect than you think



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