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Steam Hardware Survey Shows Impressive gains for AMD
There are some interesting movements to see in the Steam hardware survey, AMD is on the move with Ryzen, as numbers are rising in statistically significant numbers. A bit expected as recent earnings indicated already that their sales are on the rise.
The Steam hardware survey shows all relevant technical data from DX adoption to GPU but also market share of processors. The numbers are big, and for anything to move statistical, numbers need to be even bigger.
When you compare the data with a couple of months ago, AMD has risen in double numbers on the Windows platform, AMD is now touching nearly 16% market share in April, that was a 8% back in January. This new data all is pretty much excluding the new Ryzen 2000 release. It is good to see AMD take back what was once theirs.
Also interesting is the GPU side of things, here AMD gained share as well. It moved from nearly 11% upwards to 15%. Nvidia drops a bit, but that likely this all is related to GPU shortages due to the crypto mining craze in the past half year.
On that topic, the Steam numbers obviously only reflect the PC gaming side of sales and market share. How the dynamic is with cryptoming sales in effect, we do not know.
The survey also shows a strong increase in the Windows 10 64-bit adoption rate, 53% of the users has got it installed. Most people still have a four-core processor, however, that is on the decline by 8% in just one month. The majority of people have a GeForce GTX 1060 is dedicated graphics card and 61% of the Steam'ers game at a resolution of 1920x1080.
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#5579528 Posted on: 08/30/2018 11:13 AM
A single core CPU is still the least stutterous unit for pure gaming. :p
A single core CPU is still the least stutterous unit for pure gaming. :p
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#5579763 Posted on: 08/30/2018 09:31 PM
I think the steam survey only pops up in a few scenarios. If you reformat/reinstall or if the steam program detects a new hardware ID, so if this is correct anyone popping in new hardware will receive a message to do the survey again.
So Ryzen would need new mobo, new ram and of course new cpu. So basically anyone who jumped on to AMD platform and use steam would get the survey.
I think the steam survey only pops up in a few scenarios. If you reformat/reinstall or if the steam program detects a new hardware ID, so if this is correct anyone popping in new hardware will receive a message to do the survey again.
So Ryzen would need new mobo, new ram and of course new cpu. So basically anyone who jumped on to AMD platform and use steam would get the survey.
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#5579838 Posted on: 08/31/2018 12:45 AM
Why dig up this 4 month old thread? The info Hilbert posted is outdated and not reflective of the current trends.
If you look at the numbers today, you'll find:
nVidia: 76.35%
AMD: 13.91
and on the CPU front:
Intel: 84.8%
AMD: 15.2%
Looks like all those articles about Ryzen dominating the market belonged at CNN, since CNN synonymous with 'fake news'
Why dig up this 4 month old thread? The info Hilbert posted is outdated and not reflective of the current trends.
If you look at the numbers today, you'll find:
nVidia: 76.35%
AMD: 13.91
and on the CPU front:
Intel: 84.8%
AMD: 15.2%
Looks like all those articles about Ryzen dominating the market belonged at CNN, since CNN synonymous with 'fake news'
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#5579922 Posted on: 08/31/2018 08:35 AM
I think the steam survey only pops up in a few scenarios. If you reformat/reinstall or if the steam program detects a new hardware ID, so if this is correct anyone popping in new hardware will receive a message to do the survey again.
Doesn't work like that, as i have upgraded my computer many times in the last 3-4 years and upgraded OS's and reformatted and haven't had a survey in that timeframe.
I think the steam survey only pops up in a few scenarios. If you reformat/reinstall or if the steam program detects a new hardware ID, so if this is correct anyone popping in new hardware will receive a message to do the survey again.
Doesn't work like that, as i have upgraded my computer many times in the last 3-4 years and upgraded OS's and reformatted and haven't had a survey in that timeframe.
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Yeah, that's not looking that great for AMD if that "new" survey is correct