AMD Ryzen accounts for over 25% of CPUs among Steam users via Steam's Hardware Survey

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Steam's Hardware Survey for September 2020 paints an interesting picture for AMD. The Red Team is pushing some of its most competitive CPUs in years, and while Zen was a slow burn with gamers early on, that doesn't appear to be the case anymore. 

 

The latest Steam Hardware Survey has AMD laying claim to more than 25 percent of the CPU share among Steam's polled user base. The September 2020 numbers come in at 25.75 percent for AMD, to be exact, marking a 0.84% improvement since August. Meanwhile, Intel still holds the lion's share at 74.24 percent, notching a 0.85% decline month-over-month. Still, AMD has seen continued growth among Steam's users for months -- a trend that's unlikely to wane with Zen 3 right around the corner.

 

Quad-core CPUs still hold the majority of the market share on Steam at 45.69 percent. However, quad-cores have been steadily on the decline, giving away market share to hexa-core CPUs over the last several months, as 6-core CPUs now account for 26.39 percent of the CPUs installed among Steam users. 

 

Looking pretty darn good on the CPU side for AMD considering it has only been 4 years since Zen/Ryzen launched. Sadly though, according to these statistics, Radeon isn't doing so well. Only the RX 580 had the ability of making it into the top 10. 

 

Source: https://www.techspot.com/news/86969-amd-now-accounts-over-25-cpus-among-steam.html

[TetraSky]

This is good.

Now if they manage to do with their GPU what they have done with Ryzen, that'd be great.

[Letgomyleghoe.]

Anybody else thought this was some more ryzen 5000 news the moment they read amd?  

[SPARTAN VI]

Good for AMD. Competition is beautiful. Built nothing but AMD machines for friends & family since ~2017.

[Fatih19]

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOO.

[vong]

25% in 3 years. Given how hard of a time AMD is giving Intel right now, it won't be long till they get to 50%.

[WereCat]

6 minutes ago, vong said:

25% in 3 years. Given how hard of a time AMD is giving Intel right now, it won't be long till they get to 50%.

I think that road to 50% will be much slower than was to 25%.

Ryzen was a good reason for many people to finally upgrade for quite cheap and while there are still people that wait for Zen3, it will likely not be such a massive jump in Ryzen users as it was till now.

[nbrowser]

24 minutes ago, TetraSky said:

This is good.

Now if they manage to do with their GPU what they have done with Ryzen, that'd be great.

Well, with the success of the Ryzen platform now...they can put some real capital into GPU R&D...let's see what they can do now!

[StDragon]

24 minutes ago, nbrowser said:

Well, with the success of the Ryzen platform now...they can put some real capital into GPU R&D...let's see what they can do now!

First of all, Steam sucks ass for not putting their stats in CSV format....

 

That said, I was able to pull just DX12 based cards and calculate the total number of AMD cards in use for September 2020. So far, just 10.18%. The RX 590, 580, and 570 alone account for a total of 4.61%. That's not good.

[Dabombinable]

Some of the systems surveyed will have something rather borderline...such as a Duron...POS A8 4555M...or dual Pentium III.

[leadeater]

49 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

dual Pentium III

That's cheating, trying to count as two 

 

Really though I'll tip my hat if there is an active system of that configuration in the survey data lol

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Dabombinable said:

Some of the systems surveyed will have something rather borderline...such as a Duron...POS A8 4555M...or dual Pentium III.

Keep in mind many people may have a secondary laptop with Intel - inflating the percentage of Intel computers per user.

[tim0901]

1 hour ago, WereCat said:

I think that road to 50% will be much slower than was to 25%.

Ryzen was a good reason for many people to finally upgrade for quite cheap and while there are still people that wait for Zen3, it will likely not be such a massive jump in Ryzen users as it was till now.

100% this, for a couple of reasons:

 

1. Many of the people buying Zen 3 will already be AMD users. As the final series of chips for AM4, Zen 3 will be a very enticing upgrade to many current Zen/Zen+ owners, especially those with B450 motherboards.

 

2. Relatedly: AMD pretty much has the enthusiast PC market at this point. What they don't have is the BestBuy PC market - the family PC that the kid games on. Is this due to integrators not choosing their products, or because AMD's branding is atrocious? Lets be real, it's both. There aren't many systems out there with AMD chips in them - TYVM Intel - but we've also heard over and over that AMD systems don't sell nearly as well as Intel ones and so in part I can't really blame BestBuy for making more Intel based systems anyway. They're trying to make money too.

 

People know the i5/i7/i9 naming scheme - they know the Intel logo and jingle - and so they'd rather stick with the brand they know than to trust the guy in the store who they think is trying to scam them. AMD's marketing department need to seriously up their game here - although maybe making sure they have a marketing department would be a safer start (stop advertising with managers through twitter!) - and then maybe they won't have people asking "what's an AMD?" when they walk into the store.

3. Steam is picking up a lot of laptops here, where Intel pretty much still reigns supreme. 4000 series is good, but they're not helped by the lack of good laptop designs for their products or the fact that they're having a massive shortage of chips at the moment. It's practically impossible to buy a Ryzen 4000 series laptop right now, which isn't ideal when you've got an amazing product to sell - just ask Nvidia!.

[PlayStation 2]

How much of that AMD percentage is not Ryzen?

[Rafale19]

Let's go AMD 

[tim0901]

2 minutes ago, handymanshandle said:

How much of that AMD percentage is not Ryzen?

Every Ryzen desktop CPU has had a base clock of 3GHz or higher (afaik), so at most their older, non-Ryzen cpus will account for about 4% of the overall total. That will be an overestimate though that includes some Ryzen based laptops.

[PlayStation 2]

2 minutes ago, tim0901 said:

Every Ryzen desktop CPU has had a base clock of 3GHz or higher (afaik), so at most their older, non-Ryzen cpus will account for about 4% of the overall total. That will be an overestimate though that includes some Ryzen based laptops.

Just noticed in the Hardware survey that 0.87% of GPUs surveyed by Steam happens to be the Radeon Vega 8 iGPU, so I guess ~0.87% of the CPUs surveyed have to be things with the Vega 8 iGPU. 

Which actually bodes pretty decently for substantiating a small percentage of Steam users using Ryzen.

[RejZoR]

3 hours ago, WereCat said:

I think that road to 50% will be much slower than was to 25%.

Ryzen was a good reason for many people to finally upgrade for quite cheap and while there are still people that wait for Zen3, it will likely not be such a massive jump in Ryzen users as it was till now.

Not necessarily. Especially not in enterprise space. A lot of companies was waiting there for Zen based CPU's to prove themselves as there you don't just jump to brand new unproven tech. Now that Zen is very mature, you can expect even larger adoption. Especially because that's the segment where MOAR CORES means even more. And when you have thousands of CPU's in server clusters, cost matters too as they are slightly cheaper than Intel offerings.

 

Also wait for Ryzen 5000 series. Zen 3 is going to be a massive jump again after Zen 2 already being a significant upgrade. Even more people will follow.

[WereCat]

13 minutes ago, RejZoR said:

Not necessarily. Especially not in enterprise space. A lot of companies was waiting there for Zen based CPU's to prove themselves as there you don't just jump to brand new unproven tech. Now that Zen is very mature, you can expect even larger adoption. Especially because that's the segment where MOAR CORES means even more. And when you have thousands of CPU's in server clusters, cost matters too as they are slightly cheaper than Intel offerings.

 

Also wait for Ryzen 5000 series. Zen 3 is going to be a massive jump again after Zen 2 already being a significant upgrade. Even more people will follow.

I'm talking about Steam users and not enterprise 

[RejZoR]

6 minutes ago, WereCat said:

I'm talking about Steam users and not enterprise 

It's not much different. Also there are a lot of people who are still holding on to 4970k and the likes CPU's that still work and are kinda getting obsolete now. Those people, if AMD keeps up the pace will go with AMD when upgrade is due for them. I'm also on aging 5820k and I sort of have plans to go with Ryzen 5000 series next year. Or whenever they get released. And that's all the percentage that's not captured by AMD yet. Mobile is also getting stronger on their end and you'll also see more and more Ryzen CPU's there. For as long as AMD can keep up the current pace, they will get to 50% and even past that unless Intel distrupts this somehow.

 

And yes, successful enterprise does help hugely. It's the brand image as well as just income. It's enterprise where the big money is. And then that helps R&D that also ends up in consumer products.

[Dabombinable]

4 hours ago, leadeater said:

That's cheating, trying to count as two 

 

Really though I'll tip my hat if there is an active system of that configuration in the survey data lol

My Abit VP6 with 2x Pentium III 1000 and 4x512MB of perfectly matched SDRAM.

  

3 hours ago, RorzNZ said:

Keep in mind many people may have a secondary laptop with Intel - inflating the percentage of Intel computers per user.

This tablet with a Core M3-6Y30.

 

[porina]

6 hours ago, RorzNZ said:

Keep in mind many people may have a secondary laptop with Intel - inflating the percentage of Intel computers per user.

A more interesting question is how does the Steam Hardware Survey work now? In the past, it would occasionally ask if you want to participate, and only if you said yes, would your data get sent. Have they changed that so every Steam install is now monitored?

[TVwazhere]

Okay but side note

Which one of you nerds doesn't have a mic? 

 

Give that 45% of all CPU's are still 4 cores, I expect this for fall with relation to AMD % share going up, as a majority of older 4 core units are likely Intel (2700k, 4790k, 6700k, etc)

[X-System]

6 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

Okay but side note

Which one of you nerds doesn't have a mic? 

 

Give that 45% of all CPU's are still 4 cores, I expect this for fall with relation to AMD % share going up, as a majority of older 4 core units are likely Intel (2700k, 4790k, 6700k, etc)

I don't have a mic and I don't need it.

[Gegger]

much interestings, nice to more competition

 

46 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

-probably unnecessary snippy snap but why not-

 

*slowly raises hand*

 

kroambox with linux no likes audio jack and no onboard mic