There are multiple reasons to think that discrete graphics cards would see a decline a shipments during this time of the year, but they bucked the trend.
There are multiple reasons to think that discrete graphics cards would see a decline a shipments during this time of the year, such as typical seasonality and this being the tail-end of the current generation product cycle for AMD (Radeon RX 7000 series), NVIDIA (GeForce RTX 40 series), and Intel (Arc A-series). However, the latest figures shared by market research firm Jon Peddie Research (JPR) indicate the market experienced a “significant surge” of add-in board (AIB) shipments in the second quarter.What exactly does that translate to? JPR’s auditing shows that total graphics card shipments shot up to 9.5 million units in the second quarter, which is an impressive 9.4% sequential gain and a monstrous 47.
