Since the launch of the i740 in 1998 and the failure of the independent display, Intel has been low-key in the field of high-performance gaming graphics cards for 24 years, allowing AMD and NVIDIA to dance a duet.But the situation is different this year. The first wave of Intel Arc game graphics cards has been released, and this time it will become Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
The timing for Intel to join the game graphics card market is also delicate, because the current market has begun to change from the exaggerated price increase in the past two years to the price decline stage. The prices of AMD and NVIDIA graphics cards are all declining. The price is not far away.
What kind of changes will Intel Arc graphics cards bring to the battlefield? It is still difficult to conclude, but industry sources believe that the addition of a third GPU manufacturer will exacerbate the downward trend in prices, that is, the price of graphics cards will continue to fall.
Intel previously mentioned that its GPU shipments this year are expected to be around 4 million. Although most of them may belong to mobile terminals, this is not a small number. JPR data shows that the annual global shipments of GPUs are between 40 million and 40 million. About 50 million, which has increased a lot in the past two years because of the mining boom.
Of course, in the desktop market, it is still a bit difficult for Intel to shake the position of AMD and NVIDIA. Graphics card performance, driver optimization, brand manufacturer cooperation and game manufacturer support still take time to accumulate, and it will take a few years to see results. .
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