As demand for personal computers softened in recent quarters, CPU sales declined in Q4 2022, and GPU shipments also declined as most client systems now feature integrated graphics. John Peddy Research estimates that a total of 64.2 million discrete and integrated GPUs were sold in the last quarter, down 15.4% sequentially and down 38% year-over-year.
Jon Peddie Research reports that Intel and AMD shipped about 54 million CPUs for client PCs in Q4 2022. The market research firm also estimated that about 7.43 million discrete graphics cards for desktops were sold in the fourth quarter.
Note that Nvidia only introduced its very expensive GPUs in Q4 with the GeForce RTX 4080 and GeForce RTX 4090 while AMD announced its Radeon RX 7900 XT/XTX boards later in the quarter. The number of discrete desktop GPUs did not increase significantly from the previous quarter.
It’s worth noting that notebook GPU shipments fell 43% in Q4 2022, while desktop GPU sales fell 24% quarter-on-quarter, according to JPR.
Intel’s CPU and GPU sales fell the most in Q4 2022 (no surprise, since the company is the number one processor supplier in the world), but the world’s largest with 71% market share. We maintained our position as the largest GPU vendor. Nvidia put him in second place with his 17% share, while AMD’s share remains at around 12%, a historically low level for the company. On the other hand, AMD and Nvidia were able to gain slightly more share from Q3 at the expense of Intel.
“Total graphics processor shipments (integrated/embedded and discrete) this quarter saw a staggering -15.3% decline from the previous quarter, compared to an average shipment rate of 6.8 over the past decade,” said Jon Pedy, president of JPR. “Total shipments for the quarter were 64 million units, down 38.5 million units from the same period last year, indicating a negative year-over-year GPU market.”
