The latest Steam study on hardware and software has been published. It gives us an overview of the type of hardware used by PC gamers. It seems that AMD and Nvidia have enough to be happy, although the situation is less optimistic for Intel.
Earlier this year, we had reported how Steam Hardware research had shown that Intel was increasing its dominance in the processor market, while AMD was experiencing difficulties, but the most recent research on Steam Hardware dating back to August 2019 shows that AMD has reversed its fate, with the number of users of AMD processors. growing - at the expense of Intel.
AMD recently released its Ryzen 3000 series of processors which have received rave reviews (despite controversy over their inability to achieve promised boost speeds), which has likely allowed AMD to rebound from the ground lost by Intel, the proportion of people with AMD processors increased by 0,96% over the previous month, Intel's share fell by the same amount.
This is certainly encouraging for AMD, although the company still has a long way to go because, despite the decline in market share of Intel processors in Steam players, it still dominates with 81.04% of the market, compared to 18% for AMD.
However, even with its dominant position, this month's change is something Intel won't want to become a trend for.
Nvidia's RTX graphics cards on the rise
On the graphical side, Nvidia continues to dominate, the 10 most popular GPUs that belong to the Green Team. The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 remains the most popular GPU used by Steam gamers, followed by the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti and the GeForce GTX 1050.
However, what should really please Nvidia is that its recent range of RTX graphics cards is slowly but surely gaining popularity, with the GeFroce RTX 2070 being the most popular RTX card, with an increase of 0.19% last month.
The RTX 2060 and RTX 2080 have also posted winnings that Nvidia will be pleased with, showing that gamers are gradually turning to their new cards.
AMD has managed to reach number 11 only with its most used card, the Radeon RX 580, which also saw a modest increase in its market share with 0.07%.
Although the Steam Hardware & Software Survey only records Steam customers (and those who chose to participate in the survey), due to the great popularity of Steam, this gives us a great idea of the type of hardware and operating system used. by PC gamers, and this month, AMD and Nvidia will be happy to see their products gain popularity.
Intel, on the other hand, may not be so happy and expects the launch of its new Core i9-9900KS in October to reverse its decline in market share.
Via TechSpot