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Re:Why Nvidia Keeps Winning: The Rise of an AI Giant by chmod775 on Saturday July 08, 2023 @05:28AM (#36642800)
> In fact, gaming laptops outsell gaming desktops 2:1 now.

This doesn't show what you think it does. The majority of desktop gaming PCs are self built and won't show up in that statistic.

Additionally GPUs are the most commonly upgraded component during the lifetime of a built.

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Re:Why Nvidia Keeps Winning: The Rise of an AI Giant by senttoschool on Monday July 10, 2023 @02:25AM (#36662800)
>This doesn't show what you think it does. The majority of desktop gaming PCs are self built and won't show up in that statistic.

It probably does. I never paid for the report but I assume IDC collects data on DIY desktop towers and make an educated guess.

Regardless, gaming laptops sells far more than DIY computers.

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Re:Why Nvidia Keeps Winning: The Rise of an AI Giant by chmod775 on Monday July 10, 2023 @02:05PM (#36670444)
In 2020 Nvidia + AMD sold 41.5 million desktop GPUs.[1] That doesn't add up at all with 16.7 million desktop PCs.

[1] Second graphic: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-maintains-lead-as-s...

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Re:Why Nvidia Keeps Winning: The Rise of an AI Giant by senttoschool on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @08:11AM (#36679869)
Discrete GPUs can go into old desktop PCs. That's my guess.

And it's not clear what % of them were used for gaming vs crypto mining.

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