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 pro-level cards at competitive prices to counter Nvidia’s moves.
Keep in mind that these numbers are specifically for desktop PCs with add-in boards, not counting those relying on integrated graphics (which is a big chunk of them, and basically all smaller designs like “mini PCs”). The only good news if you’re trying to get one of those highly in-demand RTX 50-series cards is that at least some of them seem to be available at retail prices after half a year of waiting.
AMD is doing better on the CPU side of things, as PC Gamer notes. Jon Peddie also reported that AMD gained ground against Intel, with big blue dropping from 76 percent of the market in Q2 2024 to 67 percent at the end of Q2 2025. Strong performance from Ryzen chips, both with laptops that take advantage of its powerful integrated graphics and on the desktop with the cache-boosted X3D series, is helping out a lot.
And it’s not all doom and gloom, as AMD reports strong demand for its newest Radeon cards. It could be simply from the rising graphics card market (up 27 percent just this quarter, according to the same reports). But without a pretty major shift — say, expanding ROCm support to Windows? — it seems like AMD is destined to remain a secondary player in graphics cards for the time being.
