AMD's market share among Steam players dropped after Sep 2017

voidshatter · 5 Apr 2018 at 07:28

AMD's market share (both CPU and GPU) dropped after September 2017. Not sure whether the release of Intel's Coffee Lake played a part in it.

At least the first generation of Ryzen didn't attract many enough Steam players. Hopefully Ryzen 2 will turn the tide.

Steam Hardware & Software Survey:

chrcoluk · 5 Apr 2018 at 07:32

I was going to say there is no ryzen R3 cpu, intel cater for a market AMD have skipped over, both i5 and i7 chips are a minority on the steam userbase.

But then I realized there is such a processor, so I guess AMD probably need to market their new tech more, and get a bigger OEM presence. The bulk of steam players seem to have i3 based laptops.

ChocoViennese · 5 Apr 2018 at 07:56

At around this time there was also a change in the number of chinese users of steam, which i would hazard a guess explains the trend. https://www.pcgamer.com/thanks-to-pubg-china-may-now-have-more-steam-users-than-any-other-country/

StarShock · 5 Apr 2018 at 09:58

Part of it could be a case of older intel cpus hitting the 2nd hand market as people move to AMD systems... were a lot of people holding onto 1st and 2nd gen core CPUs waiting for something interesting to come out.

nashathedog · 5 Apr 2018 at 10:26

Mercutio · 5 Apr 2018 at 15:18

As it happens, the... direction things are going is already returning in AMD's favour again:

https://imgur.com/a/PIKGs

There's at least a large pause in uptake.

My speculation would say there's a LOT of 2xxx/3xxx/4xxx users waiting for Zen+. We'll see though

jigger · 5 Apr 2018 at 15:41

voidshatter said:
AMD's market share (both CPU and GPU) dropped after September 2017. Not sure whether the release of Intel's Coffee Lake played a part in it.

At least the first generation of Ryzen didn't attract many enough Steam players. Hopefully Ryzen 2 will turn the tide.

Steam Hardware & Software Survey:

The graphs make no sense at all. All four core Intel CPU's ship with a GPU apart from a few of the specialised E3 Xeons that are EOL.

Steam users must love E3 Xeons GTX750's Win7. China number one stupid master?

Anyone ever done a steam survey? I've never done one in my life.

muon · 5 Apr 2018 at 15:45

PUBG.

You'll notice as people (mainly chinese gamers) stop playing the game it will return back to normal.

Yaayuh! · 5 Apr 2018 at 15:47

The Steam survey stats will not give the full picture at all.

james_2k · 5 Apr 2018 at 15:49

jigger said:
The graphs make no sense at all. All four core Intel CPU's ship with a GPU apart from a few of the specialised E3 Xeons that are EOL.

Steam users must love E3 Xeons GTX750's Win7. China number one stupid master?

Anyone ever done a steam survey? I've never done one in my life.

it will be the primary card. and you dont get a choice afaik. just does it.

Martini1991 · 5 Apr 2018 at 15:51

Rossi~ said:
The Steam survey stats will not give the full picture at all.

I don't understand this thought process. Why not? If it's entirely random then it doesn't have any bias

jigger · 5 Apr 2018 at 16:00

james_2k said:
it will be the primary card. and you dont get a choice afaik. just does it.

So what cards was Intel selling that took nosedive because of the Ryzen release?

Yaayuh! · 5 Apr 2018 at 16:04

Martini1991 said:
I don't understand this thought process. Why not? If it's entirely random then it doesn't have any bias

First of all, it's an optional survey.
Second of all, I can't be the only one that has Steam on a few ****boxes for simple games. Work for example, which is largely made up of Intel and not exactly a good representation of the gaming market.

jigger · 5 Apr 2018 at 16:16

So it looks like quad core Xeons are all the rage and laptop sales are in the toilet.

nashathedog · 5 Apr 2018 at 16:24

jigger said:
The graphs make no sense at all. All four core Intel CPU's ship with a GPU apart from a few of the specialised E3 Xeons that are EOL.

Steam users must love E3 Xeons GTX750's Win7. China number one stupid master?

Anyone ever done a steam survey? I've never done one in my life.

Twice in the last 7 or so years, I went through 3 different cpu's between surveys, The surveys are only good for seeing how things are trending at the time of the survey, they're not a reliable source for the total Steam user base.

Martini1991 · 5 Apr 2018 at 16:25

Rossi~ said:
First of all, it's an optional survey.
Second of all, I can't be the only one that has Steam on a few ****boxes for simple games. Work for example, which is largely made up of Intel and not exactly a good representation of the gaming market.

It being optional doesn't make it invalid, it's random.
I don't really know what to say for the other.

jigger · 5 Apr 2018 at 16:34

nashathedog said:
Twice in the last 7 or so years, I went through 3 different cpu's between surveys, The surveys are only good for seeing how things are trending at the time of the survey, they're not a reliable source for the total Steam user base.

I think the true trend would be Ryzen is selling like no ones business. That would account for the drop in Intel GPU's. Maybe the survey can't recognise the chips correctly.

james_2k · 5 Apr 2018 at 16:54

hmm, guess we wont know unless someone finds out, cant imagine it counting your cpus gpu as well as your discrete one though. would be pointless.

and i guess it really isnt a foregone conclusion that ryzen is selling like anything. especially if you look at this forum, you would think everyone has a 1080ti. but on the survey, its hardly anyone.

jigger · 5 Apr 2018 at 18:04

Every time I've seen these steam surveys the numbers just don't make sense, so I think the survey must be pulling bad data or have been cocked up when compiled. The last one I looked at showed something like a 30% jump in GTX 750 use even though the GTX 750 hadn't been on sale for years. Another one showed a massive jump in Windows 7 use when again not been on sale for many years. You could put portion of that down to cracked Chinese versions, but that still wouldn't explain the sudden growth. Unless you get loot boxes from steam China for completing surveys?

muon · 5 Apr 2018 at 19:44

jigger said:
Every time I've seen these steam surveys the numbers just don't make sense, so I think the survey must be pulling bad data or have been cocked up when compiled. The last one I looked at showed something like a 30% jump in GTX 750 use even though the GTX 750 hadn't been on sale for years. Another one showed a massive jump in Windows 7 use when again not been on sale for many years. You could put portion of that down to cracked Chinese versions, but that still wouldn't explain the sudden growth. Unless you get loot boxes from steam China for completing surveys?

It's actually very easy to explain. When it happened it was all over the news.