AMD Takes Majority Share of Notebook Dedicated Graphics Market

AMD Takes Majority Share of Notebook Dedicated Graphics Market

AMD today announced that according to the latest industry data, over half of notebooks using dedicated (non-integrated) graphics are using ATI Mobility Radeon chips. AMD has an overall 53% share of the notebook dedicated graphics market. The Mobility Radeon HD 4000 series, which includes the HD 4530 and HD 4670, has helped AMD achieve more market share.

AMD Press Release (BusinessWire.com)

 

This is interesting news, considering that I remember a year or two ago most notebooks had Intel or nVidia...not AMD. Looks like nVidia's chip woes are beginning to bite them hard.

What are the percentages of dedicated and integrated in the market?

 

Yeah, nVidia got hit really hard with all the recall stuff in 2008.

 

Well, Intel doesn't make discrete graphics. If integrated graphics were included, Intel would probably have a vast, vast majority (I'm guessing 80%+) since the number of people who need/want discrete graphics in a notebook is still small.

The faulty Nvidia chips definitely help account for this, and also, I think this is probably because there are more cheap ATI discrete graphics chipsets available for notebooks.

I'm loving my ATI Radeon 3650

 

ATI's headstart on their new generation 40-nm, Win7 ready DX11 cards will earn them even more of the market.

 

now for getting some linux drivers

 

Go ATI, may my 4850 live long and prosper

 

This is good. Losing market share means that Nvidia will have to work harder and lower their price.

 

Now ATi needs to release mobility drivers like Nvidia does.
Good for them, though.

 

Is this for real?

Go AMD/ATI! ATI at least hasnt the problem NVIDIA did with the 8400 and 8600 that fried the GPUs...

I rather stick with ATI 4xxx as my GPU...

 

looking forward to 40nm parts from both camps

 

Just take a look at Dell's lineup-

Inspiron 14, 15 & 17 - ATI HD 4330
Studio 15- ATI HD 4570
Studio 17- ATI HD 3650
Studio XPS 16- ATI HD 3670 or 4670

Studio 14z- nVIDIA 9400M G (integrated)
Studio XPS 13- nVIDIA 9400 M G (integrated) or optional 9500M

 

Yeah I think after the 8600 frying fiasco, Dell probably went with ATI this round. Which IMO is a good idea.

As for integrated, Nvidia has the advantage with the 9400m, although ATI is going to release their very own integrated gpu as well pretty soon.

 

This might make it easy for us to see what Dell really thinks of nVidia right now. If the nVidia equipped laptops are quickly re-released as ATI equipped notebooks that might be a very good indication that Dell has no desire to work with nVidia at this time.

 

Hopefully game developers read this too and we start seeing games that actually favor ATI architecture on a more regular basis... Although Nvidia still has majority market share in the desktop GPU category,which is where most PC gamers are.

 

For the last year or so, until the nVIDIA 9400M G was made available, ATI has had the best integrated GPU on the market- the ATI Radeon HD 3200 (or 3100 on some low-end models). But it could only be paired with an AMD processor...which was a trade-off many weren't willing to make.

 

That is the problem with ATI. I they made Intel-supporting chipsets for the coming 4200HD IGP, then ATI would get a much better market share.

For some reason ATI is a very good thing, while mobile AMD is not that much as they tend to get warmer and are behind Intel...(now I wonder about the Tigris platform and the die shrink in AMD...)

 

Nvidia really needs to rehone their image, that feeling where you might get a faulty GPU can linger even past its prime.

 

I like that Nvidia will be forced to adjust quality and prices, but ATI needs to get it's act together with the Mobility driver support, or I'll continue supporting Nvidia's mobile chips.

 

Well, the thing with NVIDIA is that they don't do what ATI has been doing. ATI makes "new" technology, NVIDIA simply overclocks the GPU and renames it.

The 8xxxM to 9xxxM series are the best case. Or for example, what bothers me the most, the 9800M is also called, 8800M, GTS160M GTX260M. So basically you buy an older chip with more shaders and a fancy name that confuses (let the one who names the NVIDIA chips burn!! lol)

On the other hand, ATI made a whole new thing when passing from 3xxxHD to 4xxxHD. Completely new technology, which was far more stable and better suited and give similar performance for a much lower price.

NVIDIA must basically release something that is actually new and not just a rebranded 8xxxM series...

 

Yep, the GTX/GTS series is just pathetic-another rebrand for Nvidia's part and just the old new packaging scheme. Now with ATI set to release DX11 + GDDR5 GPUs, maybe Nvidia oughta think twice before churning out new GPUs in the market.

 

although i have an nvidia gpu, long live ati! nvidia has been fooling us all the time.

 

If only ATi could put out some good workstation cards. Look at all the high end 17" workstations, and all you will find are the Quadro FX2700M and FX3700M. I really would like to go to ATi (as nVidia left a bad taste in my mouth with the whole GPU frying thing), but if it's not in a notebook I want at the power level I need (the V5725 just won't cut it in the 8730w), I'd have no other choice.

 

ATI FireGL V8750 is going to be loaded on the M6400, and supposedly the V5700 is better than the FX770M in some programs according to this review:

But I do hope they make a new Professional GPU based on the 46xxHD series instead of the old 36xxHD ones.

 

Yeah but the 8730w is the most appealing workstation to me. A whole pound lighter than the M6400 and W700. I'll keep my eyes peeled though.

I have no doubt that the V5725 will be able to work well with Autodesk Inventor (the CAD program that I use). But being a gamer, I have doubts of it being able to work on a WUXGA display.

 

V5725? Never heard of that one before, only V5700 and I think a V5750 was available somewhere...

 

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/e...-3740645-3955549-3784202-3999723-3960435.html

The one HP that uses it.

 

OUCH! That is a mess! It is based on the 3670HD for a 17 inch laptop?!?!?! How could they!! lol
I guess professional GPUs are not as "important" not "popular" as consumer DirectX3D GPUs...but an upgrade right away would be largely appreciated, even more since there is a new standard for OpenGL 3.1 is the name...link below

 

As said above. Found the link again.
It is called OpenGl 3.1! Got It all wrong up there. lol
Link is here http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/03/24/opengl.update/
And since this has already been released, maybe a revamp on professional GPUs would come in handy.

For example NVIDIA has the Quadro FXx800 for desktops, but not for laptops. ATI I don't know of any besides the FireGL and FirePro...

 

this is great! nvidia must stop thinking that we are fools and sell same cards under different names...