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JEMC said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

The problem this year (well, last year) is that the new Radeons came late and due to the enormous demand on all their products (CPUs, GPUs and Consoles), can't nearly fulfill all of them. Consoles go first due to not delivering here would be a contract breach, and due to the limited capacities at TSMC, there's not much volume left for the CPUs and the GPUs.

The CPUs had the advantage that they came a bit earlier and that they are also needed in the very lucrative server market, meaning GPUs really just get the leftovers in terms of production capacities right now, and as such can't produce nearly enough to cover demand, even though it's quite lower than for NVidias GPUs. In fact, NVidia going for Samsung 8nm instead of TSMC could mean they dodged quite a bullet here in terms of production capacity, as while Samsung's capacity is also stretched, it still allowed for more than would have been possible with TSMC now.

Launching their products two months after the competition had a sure impact, but we're not talking about the sales of the last year but the whole PC add-in board ecosystem. That 9% fall is not only because Navi 2x, but because AMD GPUs are losing appeal, probably because Nvidia leads and brings new features that puts AMD at a disadvantage.

Fun fact: AMD actually increased the amount of GPUs sold.

The problem is that 2020 due to the lockdowns the total PC sales went up a lot, and NVidia took the lion's share of that increase.

Navi 2x is actually countering the appeal  argument since they are much more appealing already than anything they had since Hawaii or Fury. But before they only had the leftover Polaris and Vega, which are very outdated, and Navi, which didn't come with a high-end and couldn't quite keep up with NVidia in performance per watt and didn't come with Raytracing, making it still an inferior product even though it was a massive improvement over Vega.

I'm also not sure if AMD was affected with short supplies before in their GPUs; I saw the Sapphire and Powercolor cards (the only ones I would buy since they are by far and large above the fray) often going out of stock for some periods of time. Considering that the Zen 2 Ryzen 3 were very hard to find and AMD extending  production of Zen/Zen+ chips, I'm fairly sure AMD already in early 2020 had supply issues, and it only got worse for them from there.

Long story short, don't overdramatize the drop in market share as only a small part of it is due to product quality, and that one has improved a lot since then.

Edit:

I'm quoting Conina here from his steam thread:

Conina said:

So after some strange December data (f.e. the CPU charts and the huge RTX Turing jump from 12 to 17 percentage points), most charts are back to November levels (plus expected Ryzen gains):

They also changed some December data afterwards (f. e. Turing now shows 16% instead of 17% for December):

RDNA2 and RTX 3070 GPUs are still not shown... but the later released RTX 3060 Ti???

Even if RTX 3060 Ti and RTX 3090 numbers were added, there are probably a lot of new GPUs (RDNA 2 + RTX 3070) hidden in the "other" group, falsely counted as "DirectX 8 GPUs and below":  

As you can see, AMD actually marginally increased it's market share from 10.42% to 10.60% in 2020, and that's beside NVidias total dominance in laptop GPUs and the fact that Navi 2x is still missing in the charts due to still being somewhere in the DX8 group right now

Last edited by Bofferbrauer2 - on 06 March 2021