Intel CPUs still the strongest user-base for Steam users (80%)
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anticupidon
@hh, no linky??
No Biggie, have more coffee and we'll wait for it
anticupidon
Steam surveys 🙄
ruthan
This stats are most dependent on normal players, no guys with highend, AMD could score with Raven Ridge 2200G/2400G or cheap athlons, but launch was botched - with classical AMD problems- no or old drivers, no Windows 7 drivers, bios issues, we wanted half a yeah for proper Linux videocard support.. no proper advertising, problems with availability.
mbk1969
For an hour I was worried that gurus will not explain those surveys...
Richard Nutman
Source ? Since steam requests user info periodically, I thought each Survey release was only the latest data. Not including historical. If it included historical the numbers would be astronomical. Essentially including all previous machines people have owned.
nevcairiel
This is wrong. It only counts systems that have been online in a defined period (and logged into Steam). If its never online anymore, it'll fall out of the stats.
This can be easily seen with moving targets like Windows versions. If it would count every inactive system ever, then old Windows versions would never actually reduce in popularity.
Toadstool
A stat I'd be more interested in seeing is what the conversion rate between Intel and AMD is, as in how many people are switching from an Intel machine to an AMD one, and vice versa. I try not to pick sides and am just glad there's real competition again.
NCC1701D
Will the high refresh concern be mostly alleviated if the Ryzen 3000 series clocks up to around 5Ghz, or does it have to do with the Infinity Fabric latency? Never really understood this fully.
Yogi
This would be my thoughts as well, the vast majority of gamers don't build a full new rig every 2/3 years. At most they'll swap out some components like GPU's and storage but keep the same CPU and chipset, assuming they are desktops.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/KMrmaqgac9vvL4nEA
If you look through the hardware survey the vast majority of Intel CPU's are less than 4 cores and the majority have < 3Ghz base(?) frequency. Which tells me they're either laptops or older (2+ generations) desktops
TheDeeGee
That's going to change this year though.
Caesar
It is a FACT (intel ahead).....
i think steam pointed this out just for "awareness".....
But whatever, considering value for money, NONE is better [actual CPUs]...;)
schmidtbag
Not surprised Linux's AMD marketshare is going up. Not only does Ryzen overall perform better in Linux vs Windows (especially for stuff like the 2990WX), but Intel's performance has really been tanking due to the security mitigations (to my understanding, Intel has more vulnerabilities under Linux).
Caesar
92% ??? [excluding business firms & ryzen as "latecomer"]
waltc3
I'm actually surprised at the people who quote the Steam survey religiously. It's not an automatic survey, it's 100% voluntary--and I for one haven't indulged it for many years, it just never occurs to me--and it's a long, long way away from being inclusive of either Intel's or AMD's cpus in use globally. Steam does not survey your hardware without asking for permission first--never has--and I am sure I'm not the only person who declines that invitation. As paranoid as people have become about "sharing info" on the 'net, it's probably a sizable, significant number who do not allow themselves to be counted. Also, It's when they *break it down* by separate cpus and by separate gpus that you can see how silly the whole thing is, imo--it almost says the *opposite* of the aggregate numbers.
Aside from everything I've mentioned, this is the kind of thing that also happens with the Steam survey:
https://segmentnext.com/2018/05/03/steam-hardware-survey-fixed/
Caesar
Totally agree!
There's no stats on users playing cracked games (non-steam)...yet another question.
Andrew LB
You clearly didn't look through the survey. Just over 50% of intel CPU's are 3ghz or above and over 50% have 4 or more cores.
Btw... i thought AMD was crushing Intel these past 6 months and was expected to hit 30% market share?
https://i.imgur.com/utw5rCF.png
darkvader75
Steam added all of China to the survey with a crap ton of low core low end Intel cpu’s to the mix. Remove China from the data and you get a much clearer overall market picture. I agree with above the cheap laptop numbers are what are shoring up the Intel #’s here.
Yogi
My bad I meant to say 4 or less cores. But I still stand by the <3Ghz. If my mental arithmetic is correct that's 45% of intel CPU's are faster
