According to analysts from Jon Peddie Research, sales of dedicated GPUs dropped 14.5% in Q3 2024 from Q2. The market decline, trouncing traditional market behavior of sales increases in the third quarter, is largely due to consumers waiting for Nvidia and AMD's next-gen offerings, both likely to be announced in January 2025.
Discrete graphics cards, referred to as "AIBs" (add-in boards) in JPR's release, are having their worst sales since Q2 2023, which came at the end of a year-long downturn. Q3 2024 AIB shipments reached 8.1 million units, primarily buoyed by 20.1 million desktop PC CPU shipments.
