AMD Breaks 30% CPU Market Share in Steam Hardware Survey

[Midland Dog]

This is good news, but yeah, no Radeon 6000 series at all is very weird ... Especially because Ampere is better for mining. Ampere has been present on Steam HW Survey for months and months (since last year, all models are now present - except 3080 Ti obviously)

Can TSMC deliver at all? Or what is wrong .. I guess Nvidia went with Samsung for this exact reason. TSMC is simply too busy fulfilling orders from alot of different brands, Apple always get priority and this won't change and maybe they are also prioritizing console APUs over desktop chips, who knows

AMD missed a golden oppotunity tho - It looks like Nvidia shipped 100:1 Ampere vs RDNA2

people will say that doesnt matter but with the current pricing, thats a whole lot of money rdna2 didnt make

 

[mechtech]

@The red spirit You really need to read up a lot more, as you are clearly missing a lot of things that are involved when companies buy each other, especially with regards to government regulation, anti-competitive rules etc.
Also, some nations simply don't allow foreign takeover of local companies, or larger than a certain percentage of foreign ownership.

Oh and Geode was National Semiconductor and Cyrix, AMD got involved three years later.


I guess that's what happens when you're the best at what you're doing and everyone wants to make their products with you.

And/or no other options......................

 

[TheLostSwede]

And/or no other options......................

Well, there are other options, just not as cutting edge...

 

[demian_vi]

Says who? Do you actually know this, or are you making assumptions?
Also, do you know that the console SoCs are coming out of AMD's allocation at TSMC, or does Sony and Microsoft have their own allocation with TSMC?
The media is reporting it as AMD allocation, but since we don't have any business insight here and neither do they, we don't know how it works.
And why would AMD focus on Apple? They use a bunch of old hardware and there's no shortage on those nodes as such.
Sorry, but unless you have some actual facts here, this is just assumptions that you guys are making.

The point is, this is a Steam survey about PC hardware, it has nothing to do with consoles.


Define a lot. Those are all fairly low volume products, with the possibly exception being the MacBook Pro.

everyone here is just assuming, noone actually knows what happens behind closed door at AMD, TSMC etc
I don't think ever posted proof of what they are saying

 

[HenrySomeone]

It did work when it didn't WHEA Crash after an hour or so, it got to a good 70-75C during gaming, while my 11700 only reaches 50-55C.

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.

11700 at current prices is a very good choice, but maybe it would be even better to wait a couple more months for Alder Lake considering you already lasted 8 years with your 4770k...