Nvidia is rapidly closing in on complete control of the graphics card market for PCs, with a recent report showing that the company holds more than 90% of the market. Graphics cards have historically been one of the most important components of a PC build for gamers, vital to achieving top performance in modern games. The graphics card industry has typically seen a select few manufacturers as some of its biggest players, with companies like Nvidia, AMD, and Intel vying for control. Now, Nvidia looks to emerge as the victor of the graphics card war.
Nvidia has become a mainstay of the PC gaming community, with the company typically seen as one of the best graphics card manufacturers in the business. The company has seen exponential growth throughout the years since its founding in the early 1990s, quickly becoming a multi-trillion-dollar leader in the PC hardware industry. Nvidia’s RTX line of GPUs is often among the most popular options for many gamers looking to upgrade their PC’s graphical capabilities, officially rolling out the RTX 50 series in early 2025. A new report now suggests that Nvidia has nearly edged out all of its graphics card competition.
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Nvidia Controls 90 Percent of the Graphics Card Market
A report from tech marketing firm Jon Peddie Research confirms that Nvidia boasts a significant majority in the graphics card market. New information reveals that Nvidia supplied more than 90% of the graphics cards in the PC industry throughout the fourth quarter of 2025. The report suggests that AMD experienced a significant drop throughout the year, with only a 5% share of the graphics card market in Q4 2025, marking a sizable decrease from its 15% share in Q4 2024. Intel’s share of the graphics card market also remained light throughout 2025, only boasting 1% of the market.
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Nvidia’s dominance over the graphics card market comes as the company has been at the forefront of a rising trend. Nvidia has been an industry leader within the AI market, supplying key infrastructure for data centers and reporting record-breaking revenues in Q1 2025. Nvidia entered into a landmark partnership with one of its biggest competitors in late 2025 as well, investing $5 billion USD in Intel’s common stock as part of the agreement. Nvidia’s prolonged success also joins the company in navigating the ongoing RAM shortages plaguing the tech industry.
Q4 2025 Graphics Card Market Share
- Nvidia: 94%
- AMD: 5%
- Intel: 1%
The effects of the RAM shortage have been wide-reaching already, as manufacturers and video game studios scramble to respond. Sony recently shared a reassuring statement about its current supply of RAM, confirming that the company has enough in stock to maintain its PS5 production through the 2026 holiday season. The RAM shortages and subsequent price spikes have prompted some retailers to look to address thefts and scalping, with Costco removing RAM chips from its display PCs. Projections from chip manufacturer Micron have shared a bleak outlook for the RAM situation, suggesting that the shortage will likely last beyond the end of 2026.
Shortages of RAM chips have seen Nvidia make some changes of its own to address the ongoing issues. Nvidia confirmed in early January that it is ending production of the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti graphics card as a result of the RAM shortages, with the 5060 expected to follow shortly after. Leaks have also suggested that Nvidia may be resuming production on one of its older GPUs, with rumors about the RTX 3060 being brought back to market in Q1 2026. Nvidia looks to adjust and adapt to the RAM shortages, aiming to maintain its near-complete dominance of the graphics card market.
Source: PCWorld
