Hi,
iansjack wrote:
A survey on a site devoted to gaming determines that many computers have discrete graphics cards. Now there's a surprise!
But I would also be interested to know where the 3% figure comes from. I'd be very surprised if it is correct. As well as desktops a lot of laptops have NVidia graphics.
I suspect that the true figure is somewhere between that pulled out of thin air and that from a biased survey.
The true figures depend on what type/s of systems you're looking at and what time period your looking at. Until these things are defined nobody can agree on any statistics.
For "all computers of any kind sold in the last 6 months" (including systems embedded in things like vehicles, microwave ovens, networking routers, etc; and smartphones, game consoles, desktop, small and large servers, ...) I wouldn't even know where to start, but I'd be tempted to suspect "there is no video at all" has the largest share (and I'm not sure if "nothing" counts as documented or undocumented
).
For "all laptop/desktop 80x86 PCs sold in the last ~12 months" it's not too hard to find statistics showing Intel's integrated video at about 70%, NVidia at around 16% and AMD at about 13%; where (due to Ryzen) it'd be reasonable to expect AMD's share to increase a little in the next few years. For "laptop/desktop 80x86 PCs sold in the last 10 years" I'd expect Intel's share to be lower (maybe 50%?).
Cheers,
Brendan