[EDIT]hmmm.....whats going on at AMD? (and history of 3Dfx Rampage)

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Its really gonna make a lot of hard ons soft when the next quarterly gpu sales report comes out.

There is not much chance that AMD gained all this market share their fans keep broadcasting to no end. There is now mounting and mounting data which suggest that there is not a big polaris surge. The uptick reported, it was for chip sales and not for individual cards sold to customers. So, it seems more like amd market share increase was just chips that went to vendors to fill the channels. There is pretty good reason to believe that Nvidia has continued to sale gpus at a decent rate. That the sales are strong and not in decline. For amd to be gaining market share, Nvidia would have to be losing it. Steam survey shows very little polaris adoption. AMD quarterly results are not supportive of amd gaining marketshare. Then there is this nvidia quarterly result, which is just another indication.

I think we will not see an amd claw back when gpu market share data comes out. Its probably gonna reflect a drop. If it does, there will be little doubt that the increase reported last quarter was not this big jump in cards being sold but just a result of polaris chips moving out to fill up channels and store shelves.

How long can AMD run on fumes like this? V