Nvidia dominating over the last 10 years? AMD hits a new low with 10% market share.

After the recent news that AMD’s GPU market share hit a new low of 10%. Having following the GPU industry over the past 25+ years this the first time I have seen ATI/AMD hit this low, which is sad. But it goes back to my point that isn't it obvious that 10 years of nVIdia dominance has finally come to it’s logical conclusion? If we go back the last 10 years and count the wins vs losses it’s apparent that nVidia has more wins that losses. 10 years ago nVidia launched the GTX 680, AMD countered with the HD 7970 Ghz Edition. It was a toss up between the two with AMD offering 1GB more than the 2GB 680. So, that’s a draw between the two. After the launch of the R9 290X, AMD took back the performance crown with it beating the original Titan at half the price of a Titan. Ironically that was the last High End AMD GPU I had with the XFX R9 390X Double Dissipation. Then I would say nVidia took the next 3 wins with Maxwell, Pascal and Turing all beating AMD’s high end. Not saying AMD didn’t have good GPU’s. The RX 580 was good against the GTX 1060 6GB (coming from 1060 6GB owner and after switching to nVidia 5 years ago), the RX 5700/ XT did good against the RTX 2070 and RTX 2060. But still lost out to the high end, the RTX 2080 Ti or even the 2080. It wasn’t until RX 6900XT that AMD really tied nVidia with it beating the RTX 3090 in Rasterization but losing it to the RTX 3090 in Ray Tracing (that’s something I am readily willing to admit as someone who got a RTX 3090). So, another draw. I am going to wait until to see where the RX 7900 XTX and the 7900 lands as it’s been only two and a half weeks. Apparently, AMD is having it’s engineers work over the holidays as there seems to be some bugs and since it’s AMD’s first Muti-die chip but it looks like it beats the RTX 4080 in Rasterization but loses in Ray Tracing and loses by a lot to the RTX 4090.

According to TechpowerUp though the 7900 XTX can overclock much higher up to 3.0 GHz and can get closer to the RTX 4090. It may be that AMD is waiting for driver fixes (and tweaks to release something like a RDNA 3+ like they did with the original Zen+) next year to get closer to the RTX 4090 and much less price.

Regardless, I am seeing 2 Draws, 1 Wins and 3 Loses for AMD over the past 10 years. So, it’s clear that nVidia is the undisputed winner over the past 10 years. No?