NVIDIA Has Held GPU Market Dominance Over AMD & Intel For The Last Two Decades; Giving Competitors No Space
Should NVIDIA be called an AI firm or a consumer GPU firm? The latest compilation by 3DCenter shows that Team Green has held dGPU market dominance for the past two decades, leaving AMD no margin.
Before AI, NVIDIA Was All About Consumer & Professional GPUs; Still Holds The Same Status Yet Dynamics Are Now Different, AMD Share At New Low
When we talk about NVIDIA, especially in the modern day, many of the newcomers in the industry believe that Team Green has been an AI-focused firm since the start, and only real enthusiasts are aware of the tales of NVIDIA and the GPU segment.
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What started with NVIDIA's GeForce FX series of desktop GPUs has now turned into a platform that has not only dominated the desktop GPU markets but has also proven to be massive competition for the likes of AMD. Based on data shown by 3DCenter, NVIDIA has managed to dominate the GPU market share since 2002, and the trend continues to be the same.
Looking at the figures over more than 20 years, we can't get into specific numbers, but in general, the trend clearly shows that NVIDIA has maintained its hype since the time it formally entered the markets.
The competition was indeed strict in the initial years, back when AMD introduced the Radeon X100 series, which managed to narrow down the gap in market share due to the debut of technologies such as HDR rendering and CrossFire support, but since then, it's all NVIDIA, and even now, the firm is quite dominant when it comes to consumer adoption, despite putting dGPU as a secondary priority.
The pivotal moment for NVIDIA and its huge market share was during the crypto-mining hype, as we see market share figures soar up to 80% in that timeline.
Since the GeForce RTX 30 series GPUs at that time were in high demand by miners, NVIDIA capitalized on this massively, whilst AMD didn't manage to get the spotlight. Since then, we
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