One of the things that the computer industry is measured by is how many GPUs ship. The more GPUs that ship, the more computers ship. All computers have a GPU of some sort inside them today. The latest figures from Jon Peddie Research for Q3 2009 have been released.

The GPU market grew an impressive 21.2% compared to Q2 2009. AMD was the biggest gainer for the quarter with growth of 30% followed by Intel who grew 21% for the quarter. NVIDIA grew only 3.3% during Q3.

Intel shipped the most GPUs at 63 million total and overall 119.45 million GPUs were shipped for the quarter. Intel has the most market share with 52.7%, NVIDIA is second with 24.9% and AMD is third with 19.8% of the market.

JPR