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OVERALL DISTRIBUTION OF CARDS

SEP

OCT

NOV

DEC

JAN

DirectX 11 GPUs

28.62%

30.13%

31.09%

31.92%

32.98%

+1.06%

DirectX 10 GPUs

64.25%

62.95%

62.13%

61.10%

60.61%

-0.49%

DirectX 9 Shader Model 2b and 3.0 GPUs

4.62%

4.45%

4.47%

4.45%

4.08%

-0.37%

DirectX 9 Shader Model 2.0 GPUs

1.23%

1.20%

1.10%

1.24%

1.09%

-0.15%

DirectX 8 GPUs and below

1.28%

1.27%

1.21%

1.29%

1.24%

-0.05%

ALL VIDEO CARDS

SEP

OCT

NOV

DEC

JAN

NVIDIA GeForce 9800

5.04%

4.97%

4.75%

4.63%

4.97%

+0.34%

ATI Radeon HD 5770

4.65%

4.38%

4.44%

4.48%

4.36%

-0.12%

NVIDIA GeForce 8800

4.65%

4.36%

4.35%

4.06%

4.10%

+0.04%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

4.21%

4.26%

4.30%

4.02%

3.83%

-0.19%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

3.37%

3.48%

3.55%

3.43%

3.30%

-0.13%

NVIDIA GeForce 9600

3.25%

3.06%

3.10%

3.18%

3.15%

-0.03%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560

1.63%

1.97%

2.42%

2.81%

3.12%

+0.31%

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150

3.12%

3.06%

3.20%

2.96%

3.11%

+0.15%

ATI Radeon HD 4850

2.92%

3.10%

2.92%

2.75%

2.67%

-0.08%

ATI Radeon HD 5850

2.67%

2.71%

2.67%

2.61%

2.58%

-0.03%

ATI Radeon HD 4870

2.92%

2.85%

2.76%

2.57%

2.58%

+0.01%

ATI Radeon HD 5870

2.34%

2.55%

2.33%

2.30%

2.15%

-0.15%

NVIDIA GeForce 8600

2.32%

2.24%

2.11%

2.20%

2.08%

-0.12%

NVIDIA GeForce 9500

2.06%

1.99%

1.95%

2.03%

2.01%

-0.02%

Mobile Intel 4 Series Express

1.62%

1.54%

1.60%

1.66%

1.57%

-0.09%

ATI Radeon HD 6950

0.94%

1.05%

1.10%

1.13%

1.35%

+0.22%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570

0.99%

1.10%

1.26%

1.39%

1.32%

-0.07%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

0.82%

0.96%

1.01%

1.09%

1.22%

+0.13%

ATI Radeon HD 4890

1.50%

1.41%

1.33%

1.28%

1.22%

-0.06%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275

1.34%

1.40%

1.36%

1.20%

1.17%

-0.03%

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570

1.14%

1.21%

1.08%

1.11%

1.16%

+0.05%

ATI Radeon HD 6870

0.97%

0.99%

1.03%

1.09%

1.13%

+0.04%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285

1.37%

1.34%

1.21%

1.17%

1.10%

-0.07%

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M

1.11%

1.03%

1.08%

1.07%

-0.01%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

1.23%

1.21%

1.16%

1.22%

1.07%

-0.15%

NVIDIA GeForce GT 220

1.09%

1.14%

1.08%

1.20%

1.06%

-0.14%

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

0.78%

0.90%

0.94%

0.89%

1.02%

+0.13%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550

0.60%

0.98%

+0.38%

ATI Radeon HD 6850

0.73%

0.77%

0.89%

1.00%

0.98%

-0.02%

ATI Radeon HD 4650

1.07%

0.98%

1.06%

0.97%

0.97%

0.00%

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650

0.96%

0.90%

1.00%

1.01%

0.96%

-0.05%

ATI Radeon HD 5750

1.03%

1.04%

1.01%

0.93%

0.96%

+0.03%

ATI Radeon HD 4670

0.96%

0.94%

0.95%

0.84%

0.92%

+0.08%

ATI Radeon HD 4350

0.92%

0.83%

0.80%

0.86%

0.86%

0.00%

NVIDIA GeForce 9400

0.82%

0.87%

0.85%

0.87%

0.83%

-0.04%

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

0.82%

0.76%

0.86%

0.82%

-0.04%

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M

0.78%

0.79%

0.71%

0.78%

0.82%

+0.04%

ATI Radeon HD 5670

0.68%

0.76%

0.74%

0.85%

0.82%

-0.03%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

0.74%

0.70%

0.73%

0.67%

-0.06%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295

0.75%

0.63%

0.58%

0.53%

0.65%

+0.12%

NVIDIA GeForce 8400

0.70%

0.64%

0.57%

0.58%

0.64%

+0.06%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

0.78%

0.68%

0.67%

0.61%

0.58%

-0.03%

ATI Radeon HD 6970

0.60%

0.57%

-0.03%

ATI Radeon HD 3200

0.62%

0.57%

0.54%

0.71%

0.57%

-0.14%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

0.60%

0.65%

0.62%

0.55%

0.54%

-0.01%

ATI Radeon HD 3870

0.56%

0.61%

0.55%

0.53%

+0.53%

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650

0.55%

0.53%

-0.02%

NVIDIA GeForce 8500

0.63%

0.67%

0.60%

0.58%

0.53%

-0.05%

Other

25.78%

25.83%

25.70%

25.49%

24.79%

-0.70%

DIRECTX 11 GPUS

SEP

OCT

NOV

DEC

JAN

ATI Radeon HD 5770

16.26%

14.53%

14.28%

14.03%

13.23%

-0.80%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

11.78%

11.55%

11.43%

10.73%

10.00%

-0.73%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560

5.69%

6.54%

7.80%

8.81%

9.47%

+0.66%

ATI Radeon HD 5850

9.34%

9.00%

8.58%

8.16%

7.84%

-0.32%

ATI Radeon HD 5870

8.16%

8.48%

7.50%

7.22%

6.51%

-0.71%

ATI Radeon HD 6950

3.28%

3.50%

3.53%

4.08%

+0.55%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570

3.47%

3.65%

4.05%

4.35%

4.02%

-0.33%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

2.85%

3.19%

3.24%

3.41%

3.69%

+0.28%

ATI Radeon HD 6870

3.39%

3.28%

3.31%

3.43%

3.43%

0.00%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

4.29%

4.02%

3.73%

3.82%

3.23%

-0.59%

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

2.74%

2.98%

3.04%

2.79%

3.10%

+0.31%

ATI Radeon HD 6850

2.54%

2.55%

2.87%

3.12%

2.97%

-0.15%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550

1.21%

1.65%

1.60%

1.86%

2.96%

+1.10%

ATI Radeon HD 5750

3.60%

3.44%

3.24%

2.90%

2.91%

+0.01%

ATI Radeon HD 5670

2.39%

2.51%

2.37%

2.65%

2.50%

-0.15%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

2.59%

2.45%

2.24%

2.28%

2.03%

-0.25%

ATI Radeon HD 6970

1.52%

1.58%

1.63%

1.89%

1.72%

-0.17%

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650

1.68%

1.61%

1.76%

1.71%

1.61%

-0.10%

ATI Radeon HD 6700 Series

0.39%

0.74%

0.77%

0.89%

1.36%

+0.47%

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470

1.22%

1.29%

1.15%

1.10%

1.28%

+0.18%

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430

1.03%

1.02%

1.07%

1.19%

1.27%

+0.08%

ATI Radeon HD 5450

1.50%

1.67%

1.39%

1.41%

1.24%

-0.17%

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

1.36%

1.19%

1.24%

1.28%

1.23%

-0.05%

ATI Radeon HD 5970

1.19%

1.20%

1.07%

1.11%

0.97%

-0.14%

ATI Radeon HD 5830

1.31%

1.22%

0.92%

0.93%

+0.01%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465

0.90%

0.85%

0.88%

0.92%

+0.04%

ATI Radeon HD 5570

1.05%

0.84%

1.01%

1.09%

0.81%

-0.28%

NVIDIA GeForce GT 440

0.38%

0.48%

0.55%

0.44%

0.73%

+0.29%

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5730

0.61%

0.44%

0.60%

0.45%

0.52%

+0.07%

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

0.36%

0.35%

0.44%

+0.09%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

0.32%

0.41%

0.39%

+0.39%

ATI Radeon HD 6670

0.31%

+0.31%

Other

1.64%

1.91%

1.78%

2.18%

2.29%

+0.11%

DIRECTX 10 GPUS

SEP

OCT

NOV

DEC

JAN

NVIDIA GeForce 9800

7.84%

7.89%

7.64%

7.58%

8.20%

+0.62%

NVIDIA GeForce 8800

7.24%

6.93%

6.99%

6.64%

6.76%

+0.12%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

6.55%

6.77%

6.92%

6.58%

6.31%

-0.27%

NVIDIA GeForce 9600

5.06%

4.86%

5.00%

5.20%

5.20%

0.00%

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150

4.86%

5.15%

4.84%

5.13%

+0.29%

ATI Radeon HD 4850

4.55%

4.93%

4.70%

4.50%

4.41%

-0.09%

ATI Radeon HD 4870

4.55%

4.53%

4.44%

4.21%

4.27%

+0.06%

NVIDIA GeForce 8600

3.61%

3.56%

3.40%

3.60%

3.43%

-0.17%

NVIDIA GeForce 9500

3.21%

3.17%

3.14%

3.32%

3.32%

0.00%

Mobile Intel 4 Series Express

2.52%

2.44%

2.57%

2.72%

2.60%

-0.12%

ATI Radeon HD 4890

2.33%

2.24%

2.14%

2.09%

2.01%

-0.08%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275

2.09%

2.22%

2.19%

1.96%

1.93%

-0.03%

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570

1.78%

1.92%

1.74%

1.82%

1.91%

+0.09%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285

2.14%

1.95%

1.92%

1.81%

-0.11%

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M

1.73%

1.76%

1.66%

1.77%

1.76%

-0.01%

NVIDIA GeForce GT 220

1.70%

1.81%

1.74%

1.96%

1.75%

-0.21%

ATI Radeon HD 4650

1.66%

1.56%

1.71%

1.59%

1.60%

+0.01%

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650

1.49%

1.42%

1.62%

1.66%

1.58%

-0.08%

ATI Radeon HD 4670

1.49%

1.50%

1.53%

1.37%

1.52%

+0.15%

ATI Radeon HD 4350

1.43%

1.31%

1.29%

1.40%

1.41%

+0.01%

NVIDIA GeForce 9400

1.28%

1.38%

1.37%

1.42%

1.37%

-0.05%

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M

1.22%

1.26%

1.14%

1.28%

1.35%

+0.07%

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

1.27%

1.21%

1.39%

1.41%

1.35%

-0.06%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295

1.16%

1.00%

0.94%

0.87%

1.08%

+0.21%

NVIDIA GeForce 8400

1.08%

1.01%

0.91%

0.96%

1.06%

+0.10%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

1.21%

1.08%

1.07%

0.99%

0.96%

-0.03%

ATI Radeon HD 3200

0.97%

0.91%

0.87%

1.16%

0.94%

-0.22%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

0.94%

1.04%

0.99%

0.90%

0.89%

-0.01%

ATI Radeon HD 3870

0.88%

0.98%

0.89%

0.83%

0.88%

+0.05%

NVIDIA GeForce 8500

0.99%

1.07%

0.97%

0.96%

0.88%

-0.08%

ATI Radeon HD 3650

0.76%

0.72%

0.70%

0.73%

0.84%

+0.11%

Intel HD Graphics

0.60%

0.63%

0.66%

0.72%

0.82%

+0.10%

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200

0.72%

0.67%

0.65%

0.72%

0.73%

+0.01%

NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M

0.66%

0.63%

0.74%

0.71%

0.72%

+0.01%

NVIDIA GeForce 9800M

0.55%

0.63%

0.66%

0.61%

0.71%

+0.10%

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470

0.75%

0.72%

0.69%

0.80%

0.69%

-0.11%

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M

0.59%

0.50%

0.64%

0.62%

0.65%

+0.03%

Mobile Intel 965 Express

0.62%

0.61%

0.57%

0.54%

0.64%

+0.10%

ATI Radeon HD 3850

0.73%

0.66%

0.57%

0.67%

0.64%

-0.03%

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650

0.62%

0.64%

0.61%

0.58%

0.61%

+0.03%

NVIDIA GeForce 8400M

0.67%

0.57%

0.59%

0.62%

0.59%

-0.03%

ATI Radeon HD 2600

0.57%

0.61%

0.64%

0.67%

0.59%

-0.08%

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M

0.44%

0.47%

0.44%

0.47%

0.54%

+0.07%

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240

0.40%

0.44%

0.47%

0.46%

0.49%

+0.03%

ATI Radeon HD 4770

0.42%

0.49%

0.40%

0.39%

0.48%

+0.09%

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

0.54%

0.51%

0.54%

0.39%

0.48%

+0.09%

NVIDIA GeForce G210

0.35%

0.36%

0.37%

0.36%

0.46%

+0.10%

NVIDIA GeForce 210

0.39%

0.42%

0.41%

0.44%

+0.03%

ATI Radeon HD 3450

0.34%

0.46%

0.41%

0.53%

0.43%

-0.10%

ATI Radeon HD 2400

0.32%

0.37%

0.40%

0.43%

0.41%

-0.02%

NVIDIA GeForce 310M

0.30%

0.36%

0.43%

0.41%

-0.02%

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670

0.36%

0.42%

0.48%

0.41%

-0.07%

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

0.45%

0.48%

0.56%

0.44%

0.41%

-0.03%

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4300

0.35%

0.39%

0.43%

0.41%

0.37%

-0.04%

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120

0.32%

0.30%

0.41%

0.36%

+0.36%

NVIDIA GeForce 9300M

0.41%

0.37%

0.39%

0.47%

0.35%

-0.12%

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M

0.40%

0.37%

0.34%

-0.03%

ATI Radeon HD 4830

0.35%

0.42%

0.39%

0.40%

0.32%

-0.08%

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600

0.32%

+0.32%

NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M

0.33%

0.34%

0.36%

0.31%

-0.05%

Other

7.86%

7.22%

7.09%

7.70%

6.76%

-0.94%

DIRECTX 9 SHADER MODEL 2B AND 3.0 GPUS

SEP

OCT

NOV

DEC

JAN

NVIDIA GeForce 7600

10.16%

11.65%

10.11%

10.12%

11.59%

+1.47%

NVIDIA GeForce 6100

9.43%

10.08%

10.22%

10.76%

10.40%

-0.36%

NVIDIA GeForce 7300

8.14%

8.99%

7.70%

8.26%

8.15%

-0.11%

NVIDIA GeForce 7900

5.55%

4.47%

5.29%

6.34%

6.43%

+0.09%

NVIDIA GeForce 6600

6.27%

5.61%

4.88%

5.29%

6.36%

+1.07%

ATI Radeon X1950

6.22%

5.49%

7.05%

6.63%

6.06%

-0.57%

NVIDIA GeForce 7800

4.04%

3.68%

3.94%

4.30%

4.49%

+0.19%

NVIDIA GeForce 6200

3.63%

4.10%

4.64%

3.31%

4.11%

+0.80%

ATI Radeon X1600

4.20%

3.80%

4.00%

3.37%

3.74%

+0.37%

ATI Radeon X1300

3.53%

3.74%

3.82%

3.08%

3.22%

+0.14%

NVIDIA GeForce 6800

3.27%

2.90%

2.64%

3.66%

2.99%

-0.67%

ATI Radeon 3100

2.70%

2.84%

2.64%

3.20%

2.92%

-0.28%

NVIDIA GeForce 7950

2.75%

3.44%

3.06%

2.50%

2.54%

+0.04%

NVIDIA GeForce 7100

2.95%

3.02%

2.94%

2.85%

2.17%

-0.68%

ATI Radeon X1650

2.44%

2.60%

2.64%

2.15%

1.80%

-0.35%

ATI Radeon X1550

0.93%

0.91%

1.18%

1.57%

1.72%

+0.15%

ATI Radeon X800

2.85%

2.05%

2.88%

2.09%

1.65%

-0.44%

NVIDIA GeForce Go 7300

1.40%

1.45%

1.41%

1.16%

1.57%

+0.41%

NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900

0.67%

0.78%

1.06%

1.34%

1.57%

+0.23%

ATI Radeon X1900

1.66%

1.27%

1.47%

1.28%

1.35%

+0.07%

NVIDIA GeForce 6150

1.19%

1.03%

1.41%

1.40%

1.27%

-0.13%

ATI Mobility Radeon X1600

0.88%

1.03%

1.41%

1.22%

1.12%

-0.10%

ATI Mobility Radeon X1400

1.30%

1.63%

2.17%

1.10%

1.12%

+0.02%

NVIDIA GeForce Go 7150M

0.67%

1.15%

1.12%

0.81%

1.05%

+0.24%

NVIDIA GeForce Go 7950

0.57%

0.60%

0.65%

0.58%

0.97%

+0.39%

NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400

1.09%

0.78%

1.06%

0.70%

0.97%

+0.27%

NVIDIA GeForce 7500

0.41%

1.03%

0.76%

0.64%

0.75%

+0.11%

NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600

1.66%

1.15%

1.35%

1.40%

0.67%

-0.73%

ATI Mobility Radeon X1300

0.48%

0.60%

+0.60%

NVIDIA GeForce 7025

0.88%

0.97%

0.71%

0.41%

0.60%

+0.19%

ATI Mobility Radeon X2300

0.93%

0.42%

0.65%

0.93%

0.52%

-0.41%

ATI Radeon X700

1.56%

1.39%

0.76%

1.10%

0.52%

-0.58%

ATI Radeon X1800

0.73%

0.66%

0.58%

0.52%

-0.06%

ATI Radeon 2100

0.41%

0.60%

0.52%

0.52%

0.00%

NVIDIA GeForce 7650

0.52%

+0.52%

Other

2.59%

3.20%

3.00%

3.37%

3.44%

+0.07%

DIRECTX 9 SHADER MODEL 2.0 GPUS

SEP

OCT

NOV

DEC

JAN

Intel G33/G31 Express

23.15%

17.63%

21.53%

17.54%

22.91%

+5.37%

ATI Radeon 9600

9.14%

10.49%

11.24%

10.65%

13.41%

+2.76%

Mobile Intel 945GM Express

8.56%

9.15%

9.09%

10.86%

9.50%

-1.36%

Mobile Intel 945 Express

11.28%

7.37%

10.77%

13.15%

8.38%

-4.77%

Intel 82945G Express

7.39%

9.60%

8.13%

6.89%

7.26%

+0.37%

ATI Radeon X600

4.67%

4.91%

6.22%

6.05%

6.98%

+0.93%

ATI Radeon X300

8.75%

8.26%

7.66%

7.10%

5.87%

-1.23%

ATI Radeon 9550

5.64%

7.14%

7.18%

5.64%

5.03%

-0.61%

ATI Radeon X550

3.50%

3.79%

2.87%

3.55%

4.19%

+0.64%

SiS Mirage 3 Graphics

1.17%

2.23%

1.88%

2.23%

+0.35%

Mobile Intel 82915GM/GMS

2.33%

1.56%

1.44%

2.09%

2.23%

+0.14%

ATI Mobility Radeon X300

1.34%

1.91%

1.68%

+1.68%

ATI Radeon 9500/9700

1.12%

+1.12%

Intel Q35 Express

1.12%

+1.12%

Intel 82915G Express

3.50%

2.01%

2.87%

3.34%

1.12%

-2.22%

VIA/S3G UniChrome Pro IGP

2.01%

1.20%

1.12%

+1.12%

ATI Mobility Radeon X600

1.12%

1.12%

+1.12%

Other

5.84%

3.13%

5.98%

5.43%

4.75%

-0.68%