Things are looking grim in the graphics card market, unless your name is Nvidia. Already a dominant force, and riding high on industrial sales through both the crypto craze and the AI boom, a research firm now says Nvidia has 94 percent of the add-in-board market as of the close of the second quarter 2025. AMD has just six percent, and Intel comes in with effectively zero presence.
According to Jon Peddie Research , AMD is continuing a slide downwards, going from 12 percent of discrete desktop GPUs at the end of Q2 2024, to eight percent in Q1 of this year, to six today. Nvidia’s monopoly on graphics cards is no longer theoretical, it’s inarguable. And it doesn’t look like the trends will be reversing anytime soon, as all of this has happened while AMD was releasing new consumer and pr