Jon Peddie Research (JPR) released its Q3 2008 figures for the GPU market today. Despite the slowing economy, the GPU industry continues to grow. This has been a general trend for the tech industry throughout 2008, and may reflect the international nature of the business. The United States accounts for a tremendous percentage of worldwide IT spending, but the big growth markets for the likes of Intel, AMD, Dell, and HP are in the Asia-Pacific region or the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) countries.
According to JPR, over one third of all PCs shipping today feature more than one GPU. That fact is helping to push the number of GPU's shipped to record numbers, but it doesn't mean everyone is jumping on the SLI bandwagon. More often than not, a dual-GPU computer will be a system with seperate integrated and discrete solutions, though both AMD and NVIDIA have taken steps to combine the performance of the two. Total GPU shipments for the third quarter in 2008 was some 111 million units, up 22.5 percent from the 91 million units shipped in Q3 2007.
One reason may be the increased performance requirements of Vista, a lot of people would be going for a good graphics card. nVidia™ FTW! Thanks for this article.
My Computer
At a glance
Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 x64, Windows Vista...Intel Core™ 2 Duo E4300 @1.80GHz (Overclocked...2.5 GB 633 DDR2nVidia™ GeForce™ 8800GTX
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
My PC/BG01
OS
Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 x64, Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 x86, Fedora 9 i386, Ubuntu 8.04 x86_x64
CPU
Intel Core™ 2 Duo E4300 @1.80GHz (Overclocked to 2.2GHz)
Motherboard
Biostar T-Force 945P
Memory
2.5 GB 633 DDR2
Graphics Card(s)
nVidia™ GeForce™ 8800GTX
Sound Card
AC'97
Monitor(s) Displays
HP w17e Widescreen 17" (Lame, I know)
Screen Resolution
Native: 1440x900 Set: 1600x900
Hard Drives
1 x 80GB 7200RPM Hitachi Desktar, 1 x 200GB 7200 RPM Seagate Barracuda, 1 x 320GB 7200RPM Hitachi Desktar
PSU
650W SATA PCI-E PSU w/ blue LED 120mm fan
Case
X Blade blue lights, 12cm back, intake, side 8cm Plexiglass
Cooling
12cm back w/ blue LEDs, front 9cm intake, side 80mm blue LED
Keyboard
Stock HP
Mouse
Logitech M-BD58
Internet Speed
Supposed to be 10 mbps, but crawling at 96 kbps Limewire=1kb
Other Info
DVD-RW-DL-LiteScribe UltraSpeed DVD Drive, Ultra Speed CD-RW Drive
On the subject of the GPU market...just moved up to BFG 260GTX....wow.
It's welcoming news to read this article, for people like me who continue to purchase their products and drive up GPU market's R&D industry
1XSamsung DVD burner SH-S223Q/BEBN SATA
1XSamsung DVD burner SH-S223L/BEBN SATA
1XLG GGW-H20L Blu-Ray burner
4XCooler Master 120mm Blue LED SickleFlow 2000 RPM
1XBelkin UPS F6C1500TWRK) backup power supply
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