August started on a bad note for Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) as the company lowered its 2019 earnings. However, August is ending on a positive note. A Jon Peddie Research report showed that AMD’s discrete GPU market share rose by 940 basis points sequentially to 32.1% in the second quarter.

A separate JPR report showed that AMD’s second-quarter GPU (graphics processing unit) shipments rose 9.8% sequentially. On the other hand, NVIDIA’s (NVDA) GPU shipments remained flat while Intel’s GPU shipments fell 1.4%. This was the first time in five years that AMD’s overall GPU market share surpassed NVIDIA.

The JPR data includes both discrete and integrated GPUs. Even in integrated GPUs, the data includes GPUs used in PCs and crypto mining and excludes those used in game consoles and servers. Before we dig deeper into the market share data, let’s look at some GPU basics.