Nvidia and AMD are shipping fewer GPUs as retailers sit on inventory

Nvidia and AMD are still dealing with the fallout of the cryptocurrency fad of 2017. The video-card companies rushed to fulfill demand in early 2018 just as the market for crypto-mining was about to collapse. And that has left the supply chain flooded with graphics cards, according to intelligence firm Jon Peddie Research. And that means that retailers are ordering fewer GPUs even through the end of the year.

Jon Peddie Research tracks GPU shipments from AMD, Nvidia, and Intel. And it notes that all three companies saw a 2.65-percent decline in shipments from Q3 2018 to Q4 2018. AMD was down 6.8 percent, Nvidia was down 7.6 percent, and Intel was down 0.7 percent.