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Jon Peddie Research reports the direct shipments and vendors' share growth for the global PC-based graphics processor unit (GPU) market. In the fourth quarter of 2025, it reached 756 million units, whereas PC CPU shipments increased to 66.8 million units.
Overall, GPUs will have a compound annual growth rate of 2.4% to 2029 and reach an installed base of 2,867 million units at the end of the forecast period. Over the next 5 years, the penetration of discrete GPUs (dGPU) in the PC will be 25%.
Year-to-year total GPU shipments, including all platforms and all types of GPUs, decreased -3.3%, desktop graphics increased by 1.1%, and notebooks decreased by -5.2%.
As indicated in the following chart, AMD's overall GPU market share increased 2.6% from last quarter, Intel's market share decreased -1.2%, and NVIDIA's market share decreased -1.4%.
Overall, CPU unit shipments increased 2.7% from last quarter; AMD’s increased 11%, and Intel’s decreased -1.1%.
The third quarter is traditionally flat to up from the previous quarter. This quarter's GPU shipments were down from the 10-year average of 4.7%.
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