Gartner: Worldwide PC Shipments Increased 9.3% in Q4 2025 and 9.1% for the Full Year

Worldwide PC shipments totaled 71.5 million units in the fourth quarter of 2025, a 9.3% increase from the fourth quarter of 2024, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc. For the full year, worldwide PC shipments totaled more than 270 million units, a 9.1% increase from 2024.

“The PC market maintained healthy growth in the fourth quarter of 2025, largely driven by robust consumer demand and business demand fueled by the Windows 11 upgrade cycle,” said Rishi Padhi, Research Principal at Gartner. “Demand softened by the end of the quarter as price pressure and promotions offset earlier price increases on high-end GPUs and AI PCs, resulting in stable or slightly lower average selling prices.”

There were no major changes in the top six vendor rankings worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2025, with the top three vendors – Lenovo, HP Inc. and Dell – increasing their market share year-over-year.

“Tariff volatility, anticipated memory price hikes in 2026, and rising costs associated with Windows 10 Extended Security Updates prompted businesses to prioritize replacing hardware,” said Padhi. “Another factor for growth in 2025 was vendors focused heavily on promoting AI PCs to capture replacement demand. However, most AI PC features, such as local inference, have yet to deliver significant productivity gains compared to cloud-based AI solutions. As a result, many organizations are upgrading primarily to future-proof their fleets, rather than to realize immediate business value from AI capabilities.”

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