Despite the fact that at present the market of graphics solutions is far from the former glory, the second quarter was quite successful, showing an increase of 3%. According to Jon Peddie Research, all in the second quarter, manufacturers sold 15.86 million cards, it is 15% less compared to the same period in 2008, but given that, in comparison with the previous quarter drop on last year's smaller and better results for the second quarter results of the first quarter of this year, we can assume that the market for graphics cards has already begun to slowly but steadily recovering.. Analysts say that sales of video cards have greatly influenced the problems the company TSMC, which was able to ship the producers are not enough 40 nm graphics chips.

As for the battle between nVidia and AMD, in a report Jon Peddie noted that the share of ATI with 31% in the first quarter rose to 35% in the second quarter, respectively, nVidia has lost the few per cent, its share fell to 64%. The balance of power in the third quarter is unlikely to change, but the results of the fourth quarter is entirely dependent on new solutions that support DirectX 11, namely on their performance, quality, and, of course, the timing of market introduction.