Desktop graphics-card add-in board shipments reached 12.5 million units in Q2 2026, according to Jon Peddie Research. JPR reports a 10% increase from the previous quarter and 6.6% growth from a year earlier.
The year-over-year comparison is straightforward. The quarter-over-quarter figure is not. JPR’s public Q1 release reported 11.8 million AIB shipments, with a more precise 11.82 million figure later in the same article. Moving from either figure to 12.5 million produces growth well below 10%.
GameTechReport checked the two public releases directly. Using the rounded 11.8 million Q1 figure gives growth of about 5.9%. A 10% increase to 12.5 million would instead require a prior-quarter baseline of roughly 11.36 million units. JPR’s public Q2 material does not identify a revised Q1 baseline that explains the difference.
JPR reports 12.5 million AIB shipments in Q2
JPR says the global desktop graphics add-in board market reached 12.5 million units in Q2 2026. The research firm also reports roughly 14 million desktop PC CPU shipments during the quarter and an AIB attach rate of 89%.
The Q2 AIB total was 6.6% higher than a year earlier. JPR also says the quarter broke the usual seasonal pattern: second-quarter AIB shipments are normally lower than Q1, but shipments increased this time.
The 12.5 million shipment total does not depend on the disputed sequential percentage. It shows that desktop discrete-GPU shipment volume increased during a period when graphics-card pricing remained elevated.
JPR’s public Q1 and Q2 totals imply less than 10% growth
JPR’s Q1 release puts AIB shipments at 11.8 million units and later gives a figure of 11.82 million. The direct calculation from the rounded public totals is:
(12.5M − 11.8M) / 11.8M = approximately 5.9%
Using 11.82 million instead produces approximately 5.8%. Both results are materially below the 10% quarter-over-quarter increase stated in the Q2 release.
A 10% rise ending at 12.5 million implies a Q1 baseline of about 11.36 million units. That is roughly 440,000 units below the 11.8 million figure published for Q1.
A later revision to JPR’s underlying dataset could explain the gap, but no such revised Q1 total is provided in the public Q2 article. GameTechReport therefore treats 12.5 million as the reported Q2 shipment total while keeping JPR’s 10% sequential-growth claim separate from the calculation based on its published Q1 figure.
JPR’s Q2 chart puts Nvidia near 90% market share
JPR’s Q2 market-share data shows Nvidia retaining roughly 90% of desktop AIB shipments, with AMD at about 8% and Intel near 2%. JPR says AMD lost 0.16 percentage points from the previous quarter, Intel gained 0.3 points and Nvidia declined by 0.1 point.
Applying the rounded 90% / 8% / 2% shares to 12.5 million shipments gives approximately 11.25 million Nvidia boards, 1.0 million AMD boards and 250,000 Intel boards. These are GameTechReport calculations from JPR’s published market-share data, not manufacturer shipment disclosures or audited sales figures.
GPU shipments rose while RTX 50 retail prices remained elevated
The shipment increase came during a period of high retail GPU pricing. In August, GameTechReport’s RTX 50 pricing analysis found an RTX 5070 median price roughly 64% above Nvidia’s $549 launch price in one US retailer sample.
JPR president Jon Peddie suggested that some buyers may have purchased graphics cards before prices moved higher. That is JPR’s interpretation of the market rather than something the shipment figures can prove. The data establishes the number of boards entering the channel, not the reason each buyer chose to purchase one.
Data sources: Jon Peddie Research Q2 2026 AIB data; Jon Peddie Research Q1 2026 AIB data. Analysis and calculations: GameTechReport.