Friday, June 4th 2021
AMD Breaks 30% CPU Market Share in Steam Hardware Survey
Today, Valve has updated its Steam Hardware Survey with the latest information about the market share of different processors. Steam Hardware Survey is a very good indicator of market movements, as it surveys users that are spread across millions of gaming systems that use Valve's Steam gaming platform. As Valve processes information, it reports it back to the public in a form of market share of different processors. Today, in the Steam Hardware Survey for May 2021, we got some interesting data to look at. Most notably, AMD has gained 0.65% CPU market share, increasing it from the previous 29.48% to 30.13%. This represents a major move for the company, which didn't own more than 30% market share with its CPUs on Steam Survey in years.
As the Steam Survey tracks even the market share of graphics cards, we got to see a slight change there as well. As far as GPUs go, AMD now holds 16.2% of the market share, which is a decrease from the previous 16.3%. For more details about Steam Hardware Survey for May 2021, please check out Steam's website here.
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Steam Hardware Survey
As the Steam Survey tracks even the market share of graphics cards, we got to see a slight change there as well. As far as GPUs go, AMD now holds 16.2% of the market share, which is a decrease from the previous 16.3%. For more details about Steam Hardware Survey for May 2021, please check out Steam's website here.
104 Comments on AMD Breaks 30% CPU Market Share in Steam Hardware Survey
And like I've said previously time and time again AMD's flip-flopping on naimng convention isn't helping anybody, least of them AMD. It's kinda the opposite of the CPU side of things. There's a premordial constant hype and media coverage around Ryzen processors while for GPUs it's Nvidia said this, people can't buy RTX GPU that and so on.
Nvidia even found a valid tactic of keeping themselves on media limelight with their RTX/DLSS support announcement every few weeks, which I think replaced their AAA Game Ready Driver update they used few years ago.
The 30% wont last, it will hover a bit..
DIY market is a different story. Example for GPUs:
AMD_Stock/comments/ninhal
Just wait for JPR GPU quarterly report for true shipping market share ...
And then this comment.
Mind blowing.
Anyways, the motherboard was an Asus Rog Strix B550-E Gaming (piece of shit as well), tried various BIOS versions at the time, but it kept WHEAing. Also bought different memory as the HyperX Fury kit threw memtest errors all over the place, so i bought a G.Skill 3200 MHz kit instead. But even at non-XMP settings the system would WHEA crash.
The WHEA crashes said "cache hierarchy error" all the time. People told me that's simply a bad CPU, so i send everything back to the store and they refunded everything.
This was back in January this year. So i thought everything over until last week, do i want to try AMD again? Or go with what i'm familiar with? So i ended up getting a 11700 to upgrade my 4770K and i havn't regretted it.
During my thought process i also figured out i don't need the best of the best anymore to play games.
Secondly these numbers are skewed by the fact that these cards do not reach their intended consumer base. In fact since 2013-2014 I don't think there was a single generation of AMD cards that haven't been eaten up to various degrees by miners.So it was defective, not DOA. Well, who knows really, WHEA crashes could be anything.
On Topic, good on AMD, a duopoly sounds much better than a monopoly.
I've bought and "fixed" 7 DOA Ryzen chips for cheap so far with none being dead in any way from a site selling Amazon's returns, DOA GPU have been 100% dead X3 times out of 3.
I ordered a replacement and the next one worked just flawlessly with temperature that are normal. No bios change have been made between testing the 2, i did before on my X570 board. But the new 5800x is now about 70-75° in a all core AVX load for hours. So the first one was just a bad one.
There was an article early that i was really suspicious about claiming that Zen 3 had higher defect rate. Guess they might had issue at some point. This CPU was purchased in Jan so that might have changed.
I am very surprised that there is still no 6*00 GPU in the steam survey because among people i know in RL they are the only GPU they were able to put their hands on in Canada at a "reasonable" price. Same for me, i got a 6800 in december.
Either way I'm waiting, ram has went up $50US for 32GB, vid cards are unavailable, etc. etc. If I have to wait another year, or even 2, fine by me, I should get better value for my money then hopefully, if not, run the system until it dies then replace.
They sell a lot of AMD chips in their current lineup.
you surely like to make other people replies look irrelevantwhat does THAT have to do with @Chaitanya's point