Deze post begint helemaal verkeerd, met een verkeerde assumptie dat de R9 2xx serie populair is. Deze serie is in het verleden matig populair geweest (maar niet zo populair als de Kepler-serie van Nvidia), maar sinds de launch van de Maxwell 2.0 serie van Nvidia wordt de populariteit van de R9 2xx serie in rap tempo minder. Iedere maand holt de market share verder achteruit: dit wordt soms ook wel de AMD Market Share Crash genoemd (
http://www.overclock3d.ne...ut_of_4_use_nvidia_gpus/1) En nee, dit is geen normale gang van zaken omdat Nvidia op dit moment de nieuwste kaarten heeft. In het verleden zagen we (vrijwel) nooit zo'n rappe achteruitgang van market share nadat de concurrent een nieuwe line-up had.
Lees ook eens het volgende artikel:
Is Nvidia becoming the Intel of Graphics Cards? (geschreven op 27 februari 2015)
http://www.fool.com/inves...el-of-graphics-cards.aspx
"According to the Steam Hardware and Software Survey,
the GTX 970 is used by more Steam users than any AMD family of GPUs, gaining this lead in the five months since its release. "
"An AMD GPU doesn't show up on the survey until the 14th spot, behind eight NVIDIA GPUs and five Intel CPUs with integrated graphics.
The AMD R9 200 series, which is AMD's latest high-end family of GPUs, is the 48th most popular graphics card."
"The launch of the GTX 970 and 980 certainly contributed to the massive market share gains NVIDIA has enjoyed in the past two quarters. But this kind of thing didn't happen following other major product launches in the past. Instead, NVIDIA's market share stayed roughly the same at around 60%.
Part of this can be explained by the
temporary demand created by cryptocurrency miners at the end of 2013 and the beginning of 2014. AMD's GPUs are more efficient for mining cryptocurrency, and this helped drive GPU sales for AMD at the time.
This demand is now gone, though, and that means a big market has dried up for AMD. "
"Another component is that
AMD has likely fallen behind technologically. The company has been
slashing its research and development spending for years, and NVIDIA now outspends AMD despite the latter's far broader portfolio of products. NVIDIA's Maxwell graphics architecture is extremely efficient, and AMD still doesn't have an answer."
"AMD has a lot riding on its upcoming GPUs. There have been plenty of rumors regarding the cards, but they still haven't been officially announced by the company. The high-end versions will reportedly use a new kind of high-bandwidth memory, giving them an advantage at high resolutions.
Whether this leads to higher sales, given the tiny fraction of gamers currently using 4K displays, remains to be seen."
"Originally, it was expected that AMD's new cards would be built on a 20nm process, but it's now rumored that both NVIDIA and AMD are skipping 20nm completely. This means any efficiency gains will need to come from AMD's new graphics architecture. This could prove to be a problem, as a new rumor suggests that only the highest-end variants from AMD will be built on a new architecture, with the rest using the current one. What this means if true is unclear, but it does seem strange, and it will make it much more difficult to compete with NVIDIA's midrange Maxwell offerings."
"The company's PC segment is losing money as it continues to bleed market share to both Intel in CPUs and NVIDIA in GPUs, and the game consoles are the only thing keeping the company afloat."
Ik zou op dit moment in ieder geval niemand aanraden om shares van AMD te kopen. De populariteit van de AMD R9 2xx kaarten valt vies tegen, ook al worden ze hier op tweakers nog vaak aangeraden.