When it comes to share of the consumer discreet graphics card market, AMD is being overpowered by rival Nvidia.

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According to a chart from an internal Nvidia report on market share for the two companies, Nvidia controls a whopping 82% of the graphics card market, with AMD continuing to lose ground. AMD cards now hold an 18% slice of the graphics card pie.A representative from Mercury Research, a PC semi-conductor and components market research firm confirmed the numbers with us, saying the numbers in the report represent raw numbers from the firm.All is not lost for AMD, however. While its share of the desktop market has been declining for some time, Mercury Research issued a release showing AMD made gains in the mobile discreet graphics segment."AMD continued its share gains that began last quarter" for its mobile GPUs, according to Mercury Research, and its share is higher than the same period the year previous.At E3 this year, AMD unveiled its 300 series Radeon graphics cards , including two cards aimed at the burgeoning 4K market, the R9 390 and 390X.Nvidia recently released a new midrange card, a GPU we called amazing in our review of the Nvidia GTX 950.

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