JPR: Q1 2023 Sales Lowest in Decades

[Sandy Bridge]

Article: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/jpr-q1-2023-aib-report-jpr

 

At 6.3 million units, GPU sales in Q1 were the lowest in decades.  How many decades, I'm not entirely clear on, but more than 2 full decades at any rate.

 

I can't say I'm surprised.  Putting aside politically-motivated and thus differing interpretations of macroeconomic conditions, there are a lot of reasons:

 

 - Everyone already bought a GPU in 2020 or 2021 and they aren't obsolete yet

 - Unless you really care about the fanciest graphics, 4K gaming, or VR, the need for more graphics speed is not as great as it was in the '90s and 2000's.

 - Prices are still high for this time in the GPU lifecycle, if not as outrageous as they had been

 - AMD and nVIDIA may have Osbourned their midrange and high-volume cards by releasing the next-gen high end, while still dragging their feet on releasing the midrange.

 

On the plus side, Intel had its highest number of sales in decades, at about 250,000 units.

 

Anyone thinking of buying soon?  Waiting for the next-gen to finally hit midrange in volume, or a target price to be reached?  Or really just not care because what you have is already good enough?

 

I'm in the "what I've got is good enough" category.  Back when I thought I'd rebuild my desktop, I was likely not going to refresh my old RX 480 right away, it just wasn't as obsolete as I would expect for its age.  Although I would've been more tempted at today's prices than I was by the prices last fall.

[kojack]

have intel deep six'ed their entire graphics card plans?  Or have they just stop selling their own branded version.  They had alot of promise for creatives like myself.  

[jaybee83]

On 6/8/2023 at 8:51 PM, Sandy Bridge said:

Article: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/jpr-q1-2023-aib-report-jpr

 

At 6.3 million units, GPU sales in Q1 were the lowest in decades.  How many decades, I'm not entirely clear on, but more than 2 full decades at any rate.

 

I can't say I'm surprised.  Putting aside politically-motivated and thus differing interpretations of macroeconomic conditions, there are a lot of reasons:

 

 - Everyone already bought a GPU in 2020 or 2021 and they aren't obsolete yet

 - Unless you really care about the fanciest graphics, 4K gaming, or VR, the need for more graphics speed is not as great as it was in the '90s and 2000's.

 - Prices are still high for this time in the GPU lifecycle, if not as outrageous as they had been

 - AMD and nVIDIA may have Osbourned their midrange and high-volume cards by releasing the next-gen high end, while still dragging their feet on releasing the midrange.

 

On the plus side, Intel had its highest number of sales in decades, at about 250,000 units.

 

Anyone thinking of buying soon?  Waiting for the next-gen to finally hit midrange in volume, or a target price to be reached?  Or really just not care because what you have is already good enough?

 

I'm in the "what I've got is good enough" category.  Back when I thought I'd rebuild my desktop, I was likely not going to refresh my old RX 480 right away, it just wasn't as obsolete as I would expect for its age.  Although I would've been more tempted at today's prices than I was by the prices last fall.

 

keep holding out as much as possible, teach those greedy bastards a lesson that we will not take such ridiculous pricing (says the guy with a 4090 build lulz)

 

1 hour ago, kojack said:

have intel deep six'ed their entire graphics card plans?  Or have they just stop selling their own branded version.  They had alot of promise for creatives like myself.  

 

nope, still alive, but they axed it down going forward. for battlemage itll likely just be 1 sku in the midrange. but thats a good strat if u ask me, let them find their proper footing first, get the drivers fully ready, finetune hardware efficiency and then move slowly up n down the stack for future gens.

[kojack]

1 hour ago, jaybee83 said:

 

keep holding out as much as possible, teach those greedy bastards a lesson that we will not take such ridiculous pricing (says the guy with a 4090 build lulz)

 

 

nope, still alive, but they axed it down going forward. for battlemage itll likely just be 1 sku in the midrange. but thats a good strat if u ask me, let them find their proper footing first, get the drivers fully ready, finetune hardware efficiency and then move slowly up n down the stack for future gens.

Yes, the hyperencode was an awesome feature that I was looking at. it crushed everything for creative workloads because of it.  Not the "best" at gaming but thats only a 1 percent use case for my pc.