AMD/NVIDIA's sales of Q4 graphics cards fell last year: inventory problems can be alleviated in the second half of the year

  The statistical agency Jon Peddie Research released the latest graphics card market report and predicted that the oversupply situation will continue until this summer. In the fourth quarter of 2018, total GPU shipments fell by 2.65% qoq and 3.3% year-on-year. Among them, Intel had the lowest drop, only 0.7%, AMD reached 6.8%, and NVIDIA reached 7.6%.

As a result, AMD's market share fell slightly by 0.6%, NVIDIA fell slightly by 0.82%, Intel was "sitting the benefits of the fishermen", but increased by 1.4%.

Compared with a year ago, desktop graphics sales plummeted 20%, and notebook graphics increased 8%.

Although NVIDIA is still constantly updating its graphics cards, including the GTX 1660 Ti, it will soon come with GTX 1660/1650, but for consumers, the purchase of old cards such as GTX 10 and AMD RX 4xx /5xx/Vega is a good time in the first half of 2019.

Recently, RX Vega 56 and RX 590/580 have recently started to cut prices at different levels, which may be a helpless move for AMD to further joke inventory.

On the NVIDIA side, last quarter's revenue fell 24% year-on-year, and profits were sharply reduced by 49%. The stock price was also plunging, and it has been shackled for half a year. For the new quarter, NVIDIA expects revenue to remain flat, but it will fall again compared to $3.21 billion in the same period last year, and revenues for the entire 2019 are likely to fall by 15-20%.