useless info, no? intel has 80% because most use old CPUs/systems. Give us a statistic which only shows CPUs from 2016 and forward. I doubt it will be 80% for intel.

Yogi:

If you look through the hardware survey the vast majority of Intel CPU's are less than 4 cores and the majority have < 3Ghz base(?) frequency. Which tells me they're either laptops or older (2+ generations) desktops

You clearly didn't look through the survey. Just over 50% of intel CPU's are 3ghz or above and over 50% have 4 or more cores. Btw... i thought AMD was crushing Intel these past 6 months and was expected to hit 30% market share? https://i.imgur.com/utw5rCF.png

nvm

StevieSleep:

If you're in the market for a new PC the best choice for a good price all rounder is definitely AMD, unless you're into high refresh gaming where Intel is still king. Unfortunately this doesn't tell us something we don't already know. Intel has dominated the market for the past 5-6 years, with only the recent year with ryzen having AMD to offer something of value. You don't turn the lake into beer with only a few pints. Give it some time and stuff will even out. On a side-note, stuck with 2500k for 5 years or so cause there wasn't much reason to upgrade, even 7600k was only a marginal improvement. Bought a 1700 at launch and now i'm itching to buy a 3800x or maybe 3850x if rumours are to be believed. Intel did not offer anything interesting for 5 years. Since ryzen AMD is already offering something good within the second "tick"

I agree! AMD has a wide open field now to play in. Core count, speed, price. they have it all. I hope they don't go the intel route and hold back on us. I feel that they started doing just that with Zen+. Maybe the motherboard design is holding Zen back. I'm sure Zen can do a lot more than what we are being sold. How much more i'm not sure. With Zen and Zen+ AMD has proven to me they have what it takes to surpass Intel in every way. But should they beat them silly all at once? Let's listen to the board and shareholders.

waltc3:

I'm actually surprised at the people who quote the Steam survey religiously. It's not an automatic survey, it's 100% voluntary--and I for one haven't indulged it for many years, it just never occurs to me--and it's a long, long way away from being inclusive of either Intel's or AMD's cpus in use globally. Steam does not survey your hardware without asking for permission first--never has--and I am sure I'm not the only person who declines that invitation. As paranoid as people have become about "sharing info" on the 'net, it's probably a sizable, significant number who do not allow themselves to be counted. Also, It's when they *break it down* by separate cpus and by separate gpus that you can see how silly the whole thing is, imo--it almost says the *opposite* of the aggregate numbers. Aside from everything I've mentioned, this is the kind of thing that also happens with the Steam survey: https://segmentnext.com/2018/05/03/steam-hardware-survey-fixed/

I agree! I refuse to use VPN's due to the risk of hackers stealing all the VPN user's data. I'm sure it's already happening. I don't worry to much however. Most of the data I put out into the web is fake data. Some of the information A VPN needs to operate can't be faked that easy. So I just don't use them and watch what I share. Steam hardware info can be taken with a grain of salt. Old hardware is rampant on steam. I understand why. I would focus only on hardware that is a year old. Even then it's not truly accurate.

Steam added all of China to the survey with a crap ton of low core low end Intel cpu’s to the mix. Remove China from the data and you get a much clearer overall market picture. I agree with above the cheap laptop numbers are what are shoring up the Intel #’s here.

Andrew LB:

You clearly didn't look through the survey. Just over 50% of intel CPU's are 3ghz or above and over 50% have 4 or more cores. Btw... i thought AMD was crushing Intel these past 6 months and was expected to hit 30% market share? https://i.imgur.com/utw5rCF.png

Crush... how? Even with 1st Ryzen I wrote simple, but painful reality. From revenue alone, AMD does not produce enough of chips to seriously harm intel. If AMD took 30% of market share for given quarter from intel, they would have quite some revenue and that's not the case. But at least AMD has space to grow into. And this remains true with 7nm. Production capacity allocated to AMD will not be large enough to harm intel even if AMD made vastly superior CPU.

Andrew LB:

You clearly didn't look through the survey. Just over 50% of intel CPU's are 3ghz or above and over 50% have 4 or more cores.

My bad I meant to say 4 or less cores. But I still stand by the <3Ghz. If my mental arithmetic is correct that's 45% of intel CPU's are faster