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JEMC said:

Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

Well remember that we had plenty of reports that suggested Radeon was stock piling cards with to the delay. So idk if the shipment numbers will actually increase significantly or not. If anything, the bump in % before Q1 for Radeon might have been them shipping all those cards to retailers. Hard to say though but regardless, we will see in the coming months how it all shapes up.  

I think the bump AMD had in Q4'24 was because Nvidia was so scared to launch the Blackwell GPUs with Ada cards still on shelves (Iwonder why...) that they dried up the market, leaving users almost no choice but to buy AMD cards.

Since the chart is shipments, I also think that most of the shipments for the 9070(XT) actually happened already in late 2024. AMD wasn't shipping many RDNA 3 cards anymore, either, so I think most of that spike was for the then-imminent launch of the 9070(XT). Remember that AIBs were ready for launch only to be told by AMD to wait for 2 more months.