Graphics card sales are in a major slump, at least going by the latest figures from an analyst firm which keeps regular track of the GPU world. The headline stats for Q3 2022 from Jon Peddie Research (JPR) make for pretty miserable viewing, with sales of both integrated (on processors) and discrete (standalone) GPUs falling to 75.5 million units. That’s down a towering 25.1% compared to the same quarter in the previous year (and it’s a slump of 10.5% when stacked up against the previous quarter of this year, Q2 2022). Desktop graphics card shipments dropped by 15.4% year-on-year, and the picture was worse with laptop GPUs falling by 30%, to make for the “biggest drop since the 2009 recession” as JPR observes. So, this is the worst slump in 13 years, in other words – nasty indeed. Breaking things down to individual GPU makers and overall market share, AMD was worst hit with its share of 20% of the market in Q2 2022 falling to 12% in Q3, which is an alarming drop. Nvidia also lost