AMD Expected to Reach 40% GPU Market Share in 6 Months

[bustapr]

what is this BS about bad drivers i'm literally ALWAYS reading about for AMD. i've had like one driver problem like 5 years ago, and it was MY fault. i don't understand.

gtx 780 at $500 is an excellent price. but people like the top commenter of course wouldn't mind getting shafted an extra several hundred dollars as long as it has a green logo on it. wait till 290 and 290x aftermarket cards. we'll talk then.

All this driver crap has been going on ever since Toms made the article on crossfire driver a few months back that was before AMD fixed the issues. I swear the comments before that day didnt mention driver issues, but after that they exploded! suddenly everyone has driver problems with AMD.

 

[nukemaster]

Strange seeing as my old 5870 handled AA just fine, in fact many older games that I could force AA on do not seem to force right on my GTX 670. They are old so I do NOT blame Nvidia on this one.

Performance wise, the 5870 was actually a very good card for 4 years I used it for(that is about the longest run I got out of a card before performance started to suck[8800gtx would have had a similar run if it was not for the Vista driver issues]).

 

[lpedraja2002]

I'm surprised AMD doesn't have a 70% market share. They have had the best cards since the HD4870. Even the HD3870 was a better card if you compare it today to the 8800 GT.

AMD catched up with the 4xxx series, they weren't even on par with Nvidia on the 3xxx series, the 8800gt was the champion in its day. Look for the old benchmarks and see the difference.

 

[cats_Paw]

So.. AMD renamed 80% of its products and launched a new product. Not too impressive.
And why are people talking so much about the drivers?
Like there is a rule of thumb to go with...
Each time you buy a new GPU its a lotery, not to mention each new game, so pleaseforget about it already.

Now if we talk about multi GPU configurations.... well maybe there would be some reason to argue.

 

[iatemyelf]

all this talk about nvidia "raping" wallets. do you have any idea what rape is? your analogy is completely ignorant and doesn't even make the slightest bit of sense. if you're willfully handing money over to nvidia, how is that in any way, shape, or form any kind of equivalence or bearing any similarity to rape? even if nvidia was taking money out of your wallet without your permission... we already have words for that: THEFT, ROBBERY, STEALING, etc. if you don't like the price and what it does to your wallet, there's an easy fix for that... DON'T BUY IT.

 

[hakkafusion]

I went from 7950 to gtx670, and I regret it.
amd drivers have had less issues than the nvidia ones in the past year.
I've had a lot of both amd and nv cards before, and at some point, each have their own issues.

 

[Gurg]

Lots of talk about crossfire problems, but the new AMD card does away with crossfire connectors, so it will be interesting to see as time goes on whether the crossfire problem is a thing of the past.

 

[Lessthannil]

Just because YOU don't have a problem with AMD's drivers doesn't mean they don't exist.

 

[bmdc]

I'm currently running Crossfire'd 7950's and getting 80-95 FPS average (according to raptr) on all maps in BF4 at 1080p on ultra. I'm using the latest catalyst drivers (13.11 beta 8) and doing absolutely fine. Scaling is excellent and i've seen a MAJOR improvement over any of the drivers before beta 7. I really dont see any need to upgrade and anyone that says AMD has driver issues is clearly stuck on the green team and hasent used an AMD graphics card in several years. Go check out the BF4 forums if you think Nvidia is better for battlefield players. People are constantly saying dual card systems work better with SLI OFF, and if you look at performance benchmarks AMD is always ahead. I'm not a "die hard" AMD fanboy, I run an i5 3570K @ 4.2ghz. Anyone gaming at 1080p really does NOT need to spend more than $300 for a graphics card to get excellent performance.

 

[xerxces]

I'm currently running Crossfire'd 7950's and getting 80-95 FPS average (according to raptr) on all maps in BF4 at 1080p on ultra. I'm using the latest catalyst drivers (13.11 beta 8) and doing absolutely fine. Scaling is excellent and i've seen a MAJOR improvement over any of the drivers before beta 7. I really dont see any need to upgrade and anyone that says AMD has driver issues is clearly stuck on the green team and hasent used an AMD graphics card in several years. Go check out the BF4 forums if you think Nvidia is better for battlefield players. People are constantly saying dual card systems work better with SLI OFF, and if you look at performance benchmarks AMD is always ahead. I'm not a "die hard" AMD fanboy, I run an i5 3570K @ 4.2ghz. Anyone gaming at 1080p really does NOT need to spend more than $300 for a graphics card to get excellent performance.

AMD is always ahead in benchmarks? Really?

 

[Mousemonkey]

what is this BS about bad drivers i'm literally ALWAYS reading about for AMD. i've had like one driver problem like 5 years ago, and it was MY fault. i don't understand.

gtx 780 at $500 is an excellent price. but people like the top commenter of course wouldn't mind getting shafted an extra several hundred dollars as long as it has a green logo on it. wait till 290 and 290x aftermarket cards. we'll talk then.

All this driver crap has been going on ever since Toms made the article on crossfire driver a few months back that was before AMD fixed the issues. I swear the comments before that day didnt mention driver issues, but after that they exploded! suddenly everyone has driver problems with AMD.

Actually the problems have been going on for ages, it always amuses me that when problems with AMD cards or drivers are posted about on the forums all those that are in this thread saying that problems don't exist are notable by their absence, I guess if you bury your head in the sand for long enough its possible to ignore anything.

 

[beayn]

All these people claiming AMD has no driver issues - They may be fine now, but for many years, nearly EVERY game that had a readme.txt file on the disc or install folder listed off several issues with graphics glitches on ATI / AMD cards. That's where they get the reputation. It wasn't any single driver version, crashing issue, or heat problem (both brands have these issues), it was literally a decade or more of graphics glitches in every single game that existed. Combine that with a few driver versions that crash or cause heat issues and you have a reputation that lasts for years.

 

[bernardblack]

AMD's kick ass. I'm still happy with my 6970. I've only owned 4 NVidia cards, in the past...that bullshit with not being able to run AA+HDR, back in 2005-2007 with my Geforce 6800 and 7800's was enough for me. I dropped them and went straight Redeon ever since. Haven't regretted it one bit. I installed a Fermi GTS450 1.5gb for my wife's computer because of the good deal, the first card went south, the replacement card went south and now she's back to running the HD3300 IGP and hasn't failed her since. LOL

 

[bernardblack]

AMD's kick a$$. I'm still happy with my 6970. I've only owned 4 NVidia cards, in the past...that bullshit with not being able to run AA+HDR, back in 2005-2007 with my Geforce 6800 and 7800's was enough for me. I dropped them and went straight Radeon ever since. Haven't regretted it one bit. I installed a Fermi GTS450 1.5gb for my wife's computer because of the good deal, the first card went south, the replacement card went south and now she's back to running the HD3300 IGP and hasn't failed her since. LOL

 

[JackNaylorPE]

Are they counting consoles in this.

yes....unfortunately AMDs share of the discrete GFX card market is still spiralling downward....nVidia's over 50% and AMd's best shoring is the 7850 in 14th place

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/

Mehtinks that's why we saw the 290x release before it was quite ready for prime time. I wuda waited and tempered the sound and temp issues and released w/ less controversy.

 

[Conlan]

As someone who recently purchased 30 shares of AMD, I am quite happy to read this 🙂

 

[kratos2701]

I tell you what is the difference in drivers. When i tried to overclock an AMD card 7870 and something went wrong with the OC the computer crashed, usually freezing ( it didnt bothered me because i thought was normal, because i was experimenting with overclocking). When i replaced with gtx 670 i was very surprised to see that nvidia drivers dont crash your computer when the overclocking fails, they just restart themselves. I was very pleasantly surprised

 

[Conlan]

Lol-"AMD has never had driver issues" as Battlefield 4 launches with driver problems specific to AMD...

To be fair though, Battlefield 4 has had problems specific to everything imaginable since launch. I wouldn't blame AMD for any incompatibilities, simply because with all that is wrong with BF4 at this point, it's probably DICE's fault.

 

[Cicero Brown]

This site is super. I've been looking for information on GPU Market Share. Your site will be bookmarked for future reference.

 

[somebodyspecial]

AMD's kick ass. I'm still happy with my 6970. I've only owned 4 NVidia cards, in the past...that bullshit with not being able to run AA+HDR, back in 2005-2007 with my Geforce 6800 and 7800's was enough for me. I dropped them and went straight Redeon ever since. Haven't regretted it one bit. I installed a Fermi GTS450 1.5gb for my wife's computer because of the good deal, the first card went south, the replacement card went south and now she's back to running the HD3300 IGP and hasn't failed her since. LOL

This has little to do with AMD or NV usually. Neither makes their own cards (aside from a few pro models maybe). Drivers are AMD/NV's problems, where your card deaths are likely a manufacturer/component problem. Buy a better brand next time A great deal isn't always great and is sometimes sold cheap just to dump crap on unsuspecting customers.

Many CF AMD users would disagree with your assessment (eyefinity users too right now, and still xp users). I don't think phase 2 fixes dx9 etc crap either but we'll see. You're hating chip designers instead of card manufacturers. I think many would say AMD is putting them through BS and has for about 2yrs. The difference is, this CF, Eyefinity, DX9/xp users screwed, not optimizing for new game releases sometimes for months, etc crap REALLY is AMD's fault (DRIVERS), not any card makers problem. No card maker can fix this AMD stuff and NV can't fix a faulty card maker's product either. Again, speaking generally as Bumpgate may have been at least partially NV's fault but we really can't say without access to all the statistics or law docs in the cases, backroom deals to cover, TSMC involvement etc. Also NV claimed OEM's ignored their thermal recommendations, with HP (IIRC) basically acknowledging this by covering ~$100mil of the problem our of their own pocket. You don't do that if you aren't at least partially to blame right? I don't give up that amount for nothing. Why extend warranties to 3yr and not sue NV? Some was your fault? maybe.

 

[englandr753]

I purchased the EVGA 8800GTX ACS3 card when it came out or 600.00 and never regretted it until I dropped in two more and had to have a floor fan to keep from melting from the heat. I still have that original card in another system and sold off the other two. The single card was a great experience but SLI was a nightmare. Not from a performance standpoint but simply from the heat those cards put out in a 3 way setup.

I've had three XFX 6950's since they came out and flashed to 6970's but I've only ran in 6970 mode to test. Still until this day I am very pleased with these 3 cards and don't even have the need to set to 6970's mode. I will used these for a while longer until either Nvidia or AMD put out a single card that has something to offer to upgrade to. I haven't had any driver issues with either Nvidia or AMD in ages.