By Mark Hachman
Publication Date: 2026-03-05 18:13:00
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In summary:
- PCWorld reports that Nvidia now controls over 90% of the PC graphics card market as of Q4 2025, with AMD’s share plummeting below 10%.
- This dramatic shift reflects consumer preference for Nvidia’s offerings like the popular RTX 5070, while Intel maintains virtually no presence in discrete graphics.
- Despite annual growth in add-in card shipments, Q4 2025 saw sequential declines due to rising memory costs and tariffs affecting the market.
When we think of the PC graphics-card market, we usually think of three players: Nvidia, AMD, and to a lesser extent, Intel. Those days are over.
According to market data released by Jon Peddie Research for the fourth quarter of 2025, AMD’s market share in the PC graphics-card market has plunged to well under 10 percent. Intel is virtually non-existent. The remainder — over 90 percent — is now supplied by Nvidia.
The JPR report complements a second report issued earlier this week that included integrated PC graphics, which also highlighted the rise of graphics cores flowing into the workstation and data center. Overall, total add-in card shipments increased by 36 percent year-over-year. But the new data, from the fourth quarter of 2025, also showed a sequential drop in card shipments of 11.5 percent from the third quarter.
That’s unusual, since the fourth-quarter holiday sales season is when sales typically hit their highest point. JPR attributed the sequential drop to…
