Steam Survey Market Share (May 2021 Edition)

[Grim5]

Latest survey results are out

Intel:

* Nothing good to say, they continue to lose market share every month

Nvidia:

* Small gains for all its RTX 3000 cards.
* All RTX 3000 cards are now featured as of the end of May and one RTX 3060 Laptop GPU is also featured.

AMD:

* Its good news for CPU's with AMD breaking through the 30% barrier, AMD has gone from 19% to 30% in the last 18 months.

* Its not good news for GPU's though, RX 6000 cards continue to be MIA on the survey while Nvidia Laptop GPU's are already appearing. AMD's overall GPU marketshare hasn't changed in 12 months at 16%

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

 

[deuse]

Latest survey results are out

Intel:

* Nothing good to say, they continue to lose market share every month

Nvidia:

* Small gains for all its RTX 3000 cards.
* All RTX 3000 cards are now featured as of the end of May and one RTX 3060 Laptop GPU is also featured.

AMD:

* Its good news for CPU's with AMD breaking through the 30% barrier, AMD has gone from 19% to 30% in the last 18 months.

* Its not good news for GPU's though, RX 6000 cards continue to be MIA on the survey while Nvidia Laptop GPU's are already appearing. AMD's overall GPU marketshare hasn't changed in 12 months at 16%

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

So Intel and Nvidia are still crushing AMD.

That post didn't work out to well did it

 

[Aretak]

So Intel and Nvidia are still crushing AMD.

That post didn't work out to well did it

You seem to be the only one here with an emotional attachment to faceless corporations, given your childish fanboy response to a post that's simply laying out some data. Also quite an interesting definition of "crushing" on the Intel side, given they're clearly being vastly outsold in the enthusiast space by AMD, resulting in their market share rapidly dwindling. If anything, it's actually somewhat remarkable how quickly AMD are eroding that number, given the huge number of Intel users still using older platforms from Sandy Bridge onwards. Not to mention laptops, where Intel enjoyed complete domination for a decade or more. You can see just how much of that Intel number encompasses laptops when you break things down by clock speed, with sub-3GHz Intel chips representing nearly 30% of the user base. It all confirms that the vast majority of new gaming CPUs being sold are Ryzen ones. Even the overpricing of Zen 3 doesn't seem to have put the brakes on.

 

[Cooler running]

So Intel and Nvidia are still crushing AMD.

That post didn't work out to well did it

The truth of it all is that most people aren't hardware enthusiasts, as long as the PC works and can play their favorite game then they just don't care. Given the market dominance intel had from 2011-2017, it's not surprising in the least that said is the state of affairs.

Until the intel quad cores are giving less than 40 fps in most popular games, most people won't dump them. It's also the case given that intel are still selling an enormous number of chips, that this further hinders AMD's advance. Even if they have gained ground, their relative starting point is so poor that these figures are unlikely to favor AMD for some time, if ever.

Before you come at me, I was a Ryzen early adopter, I don't love or care for either company, even though I am an enthusiast.

On an unrelated note, keep holding on there 10 series. Grasping your 1070 or 1080ti as tightly as you can, is the best way of giving the middle finger to Nvidia and the board partners for causing this GPU related mess.

 

[Game]

Had to dump my intel quad core it has reached that point in multiplayer FPS with 100% load

But still stayed intel with a 10 series just wanted a hassle free existence for a few years on a budget

Then we will see how the land lies with ddr5

 

[ukxenon]

it is only good for us in the long run it will force all sides to get better and offer good products at rates we can afford

 

[xPETEZx]

Its good to see AMD CPUs picking up share. Shame they cant supply enough GPUs to make a dent.

Attitude amongst even some of my techie friends is still very much "Intel / Nvidia". Which to be fair was very much my attitude as recently as last year... Just hadn't noticed AMD was 'back' in CPUs.

 

[Grim5]

At the current rate AMD could reach 50% CPU market share on steam within 2 years if Intel is unable to stop them.

As for AMD GPUs, it looks like supply has signs up picking up in the coming months. GPU supply improvement relies on a reduction in CPU demand and I think CPU demand is slightly backing off as Ryzen 5000 CPus are not longer perpetually out of stock, so logic dictates AMD would reallocate wafers to GPU production where the products are still perpetually out of stock

 

[hyperseven]

At the current rate AMD could reach 50% CPU market share on steam within 2 years if Intel is unable to stop them.

As for AMD GPUs, it looks like supply has signs up picking up in the coming months. GPU supply improvement relies on a reduction in CPU demand and I think CPU demand is slightly backing off as Ryzen 5000 CPus are not longer perpetually out of stock, so logic dictates AMD would reallocate wafers to GPU production where the products are still perpetually out of stock

'perpetually out of stock', except when stores have stock of 6700 and 6900 products to buy right now

 

[Troezar]

I'm amazed AMD have eaten so much into Intel's market share. Given most buyers don't have a clue that've very impressive. I can see 50:50 coming sooner than expected. GPU's are a much harder market as gamers seem to be much more emotionally attached to their GPU than their CPU. That said, if AMD can start to pull away from Nvidia with chiplets, I can only see that loyalty lasting so long.

 

[philo-sofa]

I'd move if they had a decent RT GPU. I've had a few AMD GPUs in the past, and when they're dominant, it only makes sense to buy Radeon.

 

[humbug]

I'm amazed AMD have eaten so much into Intel's market share. Given most buyers don't have a clue that've very impressive. I can see 50:50 coming sooner than expected. GPU's are a much harder market as gamers seem to be much more emotionally attached to their GPU than their CPU. That said, if AMD can start to pull away from Nvidia with chiplets, I can only see that loyalty lasting so long.

Its about 0.5% percentage point per month.

Steam is a snapshot of what people own, not what they are buying and there is a lot of old Intel stuff out there, AMD are selling a lot more chips than Intel, gradually as people replace those old Intel systems they are opting for AMD much much more than Intel so you get a gradual growth of AMD systems against Intel systems.

Half a percentage point growth every month is impressive.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Its easier to find AMD CPUs in laptops and prebuilt deskops,so that is probably why they are more common now. However,in overall sales volume Intel still sells more overall(when you include prebuilt systems and laptops),just less than it used to be:
https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/i...t-time-in-3-years-is-the-desktop-tide-turning

However,AMD due to supply issues has hit about 20% sales share now per quarter,but apparently can't increase now.

 

[humbug]

Its easier to find AMD CPUs in laptops and prebuilt deskops,so that is probably why they are more common now. However,in overall sales volume Intel still sells more overall(when you include prebuilt systems and laptops),just less than it used to be:
https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/i...t-time-in-3-years-is-the-desktop-tide-turning

However,AMD due to supply issues has hit about 20% sales share now per quarter,but apparently can't increase now.

Do they include DIY retail sales in their data? a lot of these "researchers" don't and reading through that they talk a lot about how AMD is losing in Laptops and Chromebooks (none of which is a surprise to anyone) but say absolutely nothing about DIY retail sales, yet when you look at everyone who publishes DIY CPU sales AMD are outselling Intel by massive amounts.

Oh and Intel's CPU's are also X86 Graphics Cards, because of course they are, but the Chips in Game Consoles aren't. They don't even exist.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Do they include DIY retail sales in their data? a lot of these "researchers" don't and reading through that they talk a lot about how AMD is losing in Laptops and Chromebooks (none of which is a surprise to anyone) but say absolutely nothing about DIY retail sales, yet when you look at everyone who publishes DIY CPU sales AMD are outselling Intel by massive amounts.

Oh and Intel's CPU's are X86 Graphics Cards, because of course they are, but the Chips in Game Consoles aren't.

Its from JPR/Mercury Research which cover all sales. They are the same companies AMD,Nvidia and Intel use for marketing charts so I suspect they are industry standard metrics. The reality is DIY sales pale in comparison to sales of prebuilt systems and laptops. Its not also surprising Intel still sells far more CPUs - for example in Q4 2020,their Client Computing Group made nearly $11 billion in revenue,and AMD as a whole made $3.45 billion(including GPUs and commercial sales). Its quite clear even though Intel is on the decline,they still massively outsell AMD,and AMD has hit a big issue with capacity. I think its also why AMD hasn't increased its enterprise marketshare even further than it has,despite having far more superior products in that space in every metric - there is only so much supply which can go around.

It's actually what also happened to AMD in the Athlon 64 era. AMD had a supply limitation and Intel could use its superior volume to threaten companies,or bribe them like they did with Dell.

 

[humbug]

Its from JPR/Mercury Research which cover all sales. They are the same companies AMD,Nvidia and Intel use for marketing charts so I suspect they are industry standard metrics. The reality is DIY sales pale in comparison to sales of prebuilt systems and laptops. Its not also surprising Intel still sells far more CPUs - for example in Q4 2020,their Client Computing Group made nearly $11 billion in revenue,and AMD as a whole made $3.45 billion(including GPUs and commercial sales). Its quite clear even though Intel is on the decline,they still massively outsell AMD,and AMD has hit a big issue with capacity. I think its also why AMD hasn't increased its enterprise marketshare even further than it has,despite having far more superior products in that space in every metric - there is only so much supply which can go around.

These are Wall Street entities, they report what suits Wall Street, not the whole truth, we know they don't report everything AMD sell, 10's of millions of consoles sold every year is 10's of millions of chips sold, they do not include these in their data, never have.
They also count Intel's CPU's twice, once as CPU's and again as GPU's.

Intel sell more into the X86 market than AMD do, of course they do, that's not being disputed, but revenue is not = to number of sales, AMD sell their EPYC chips primarily to cloud service providers, that's what they are very good at, they are very efficient and enormously powerful for executing a lot of very small tasks at very high speed, those chips are going for around $5,000 a pop.

Intel sell into data centre where the software is very specific to Intel, the software is developed superficially for Intel, there is a lot of it and Intel have a monopoly on it, so they can charge $50,000 a pop.

I don't know if these researchers include DIY retail in their data sets, but i have never seen it in their breakdowns, at best they are probably assuming DIY doesn't matter, its like 0.01% of overall sales, that's the kindest thing i can say about these people not including all data, do they think the same about consoles? how out of touch are they?

 

[Jay85]

The amount of AMD gpu's still available to buy albeit at higher prices says it all really, not many people want them still despite them competing well against the 3000 series.

 

[humbug]

The amount of AMD gpu's still available to buy albeit at higher prices says it all really, not many people want them still despite them competing well against the 3000 series.

Nvidia mindshare, what AMD have to do to crack it is better RT performance, Better upscaling performance with a better image quality, better thermals, better power, less money.

Never going to happen, so there is no point in even being a lot cheaper, that alone has limited effect because you know DLSS has a better than native Image quality and 50% better performance so actually Nvidia's GPU are not only better but also cheaper, because an RTX 3070 has DLSS and costs less than a 6800XT don't you know....

Why do you think Nvidia are pushing to have DLSS reviews as part of the main review?

 

[Troezar]

Nvidia mindshare, what AMD have to do to crack it is better RT performance, Better upscaling performance with a better image quality, better thermals, better power, less money.

Never going to happen, so there is no point in even being a lot cheaper, that alone has limited effect because you know DLSS has a better than native Image quality and 50% better performance so actually Nvidia's GPU are not only better but also cheaper, because an RTX 3070 has DLSS and costs less than a 6800XT don't you know....

From everything I'm hearing I don't think there will be any doubt come the next gen of cards. Nvidia are in for a lot stiffer competition from AMD and Intel taking them on at the lower end.