Friday, July 7th 2017
Steam Survey Update: It's All About Quad-cores, NVIDIA and Windows 10
An update to the Steam survey results is always worth noting, especially with the added, tremendous growth Valve's online store service has seen recently. And it seems that in the Steam gaming world at least, quad-core CPUs, NVIDIA graphics cards, and Windows 10 reign supreme.
Windows 10 64-bit is the most used operating system, with 50.33% of the survey. That the second most used Windows OS is the steady, hallmark Windows 7 shouldn't come as a surprise, though it does have just 32.05% of the market now. OS X has a measly 2.95% of the grand total, while Linux comes in at an even lower 0.72%. While AMD processor submits may have increased in other software, it seems that at least in Steam, those numbers aren't reflected, since AMD's processor market share in the survey has decreased from 21.89% in February to just 19.01% as of June, even though the company's Ryzen line of CPUs has been selling like hotcakes. Quad-core CPUs are the most used at time of the survey, at 52.06%, while the next highest percentage is still the dual-core CPU, with 42.23%.
On the graphics cards side of the equation though, AMD seems to be in a pretty considerable losing streak when it comes to the Steam hardware survey. The red company has fallen from a 26.2% market share in January 2016 to a much lower 20.5% in June 2017; it seems Polaris' price-point and lower cost of entry for FreeSync did little to convince users to migrate to the red team. Perhaps the lack of a halo product doomed AMD from the start?
There are a total of 19 NVIDIA video cards taking up the top spots in the Steam hardware survey before the first AMD video card series - the HD 7700 - makes an appearance with its measly 1.21% market share. Of the top 19 NVIDIA graphics cards, the GTX 1060 takes the top spot, with 6.29% market. Other 1000 series graphics cards from NVIDIA in the top 19 spots include the GTX 1070 (5th place with 3.60%), the GTX 1050 Ti (6th, 2.80%), the GTX 1050 (13th place, 1.74%) and the GTX 1080 (14th, 1.73%).
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Steam Hardware Survey
Windows 10 64-bit is the most used operating system, with 50.33% of the survey. That the second most used Windows OS is the steady, hallmark Windows 7 shouldn't come as a surprise, though it does have just 32.05% of the market now. OS X has a measly 2.95% of the grand total, while Linux comes in at an even lower 0.72%. While AMD processor submits may have increased in other software, it seems that at least in Steam, those numbers aren't reflected, since AMD's processor market share in the survey has decreased from 21.89% in February to just 19.01% as of June, even though the company's Ryzen line of CPUs has been selling like hotcakes. Quad-core CPUs are the most used at time of the survey, at 52.06%, while the next highest percentage is still the dual-core CPU, with 42.23%.
90 Comments on Steam Survey Update: It's All About Quad-cores, NVIDIA and Windows 10
You are really suffering from misplaced information. Many on here, including me, are either running primary or secondary systems for gaming with regularity that have only 4 cores, or, (gulp), i3's with HT. Without issue or stutter.
For non-gaming sure, a lot of uses will slow down with an i3 or i5, but not gaming. To claim a need for 6 core CPU's for gaming is merely for epeen/ maybe overcompensating for RL?
Meanwhile, most watched games on Twitch. They all need beefy GPUs and 6 core CPUs to run at 60fps. A 300€ 4 year Desktop/laptop can run this stuff with ease. So I guess is not a surprise if steam tell us GT730m gt940, gtx650, intel hd5000 are on the most used GPUs. These games are the"PC gaming", this is where all the PC gaming money/revenue/userbase is at. It isn´t on some random Ubisoft/EA crappy console AAA port wich you can run with a GTX1080ti at 4k and ultra eye-candy settings, after paying thousands to get dat "master race experience" by applying brute force on console assets (and always bad optimized for pc). That type of experience is not only crazy expensive, but it is used by a NICHE. Keep that in mind.
Source: techspot reviews here is bf1
www.techspot.com/amp/review/1267-battlefield-1-benchmarks/page4.html
I wouldnt go less than a quad for gaming if i could help it. If not, you do what you need to do. :)
I've been told I have been wrong about Ryzen IPC deficits and I accept that I was wrong. What Ryzen needs to really beat Intel is higher clock speeds. Being stuck at below 4 GHz while Intel CPUs are clocking as high as 4.5 GHz (even 4.8 GHz) is what's really hurting AMD Ryzen. If AMD can somehow pull a rabbit out of their hat next year and bump the clock speeds up into the 4.5 GHz range then it will be able to truly go toe-to-toe with Intel's latest offerings.
7700k are very commonly found at 5ghz. So...yeah. :)
Anyway, it's enough to mention, the IPC deficit, sure! ;)
Whats an internal throttling wall? It typically hits a thermal wall, right?
Re 5ghz.. just updating your statement. :)
www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0
Yet, we don't see AMD revenue from CPUs jumping by a factor of 2 (or more), so it would seem that they're not selling as many CPUs as they used to. Essentially, they're loosing the mass market of cheap CPUs, replacing it with a fairly rare high-end product.AMD cards are available - they're just very expensive, so not a very sensible choice for gaming right now.
With 8 core CPU.
So.
Overwatch is optimized for 6 threads.