AMD’s remarkable rise in recent months is still in fine fettle. The latest discrete GPU market share analysis indicates AMD’s share of the graphics card market has increased all the way up to 34.2% during Q2 2016. That’s still only just over a third, but it’s a significant increase on the 26.2% share seen during the last quarter of 2015.

Evidently those low priced Polaris graphics cards are doing the trick, helping AMD to arrest a downward spiral which has been happening since Q4 2011, the last time AMD’s market share managed to equal Nvidia’s.

Market analyst David Wong said “According to Mercury Research, AMD’s unit share of the discrete GPU market increased from 26.2% in the December 2015 quarter to 29.4% in the March 2016 quarter. AMD’s discrete GPU market unit share increased 4.8pp sequentially to 34.2% in the June 2016 quarter.”

Despite those massive gains though, things aren’t looking too shabby for Team Green either. Nvidia might be handing over more of the graphics card market to AMD, but gaming graphics cards and revenue continue to show good growth. Estimates put Nvidia’s GPU revenue up between 17-25% year on year.

That’s not all either, because the same market analyst also predicts AMD’s share is going to grow yet further during the second half of 2016 and through until 2017. This is down to a high volume of Polaris-powered Radeon graphics cards and the imminent first generation of 14nm Vega 10 GPUs.

On the up and up for AMD then, but can it can keep this success going? Do you believe can be repeated in the struggling CPU sector when Zen finally arrives? Let us know!