Up 4.7 per cent in GPUs and 8.4 per cent in CPUs
AMD is showing significant gains in November’s latest Steam hardware survey – up 4.7 per cent in GPUs and 8.4 per cent in CPUs.
It would appear that is clawing back market share from Nvidia and Intel, which saw significant losses and is a return to greatness for AMD which had a bad survey result.
That month saw a brief surge of GeForce RTX 30-series cards in GPUs suddenly turn into a retreat this month. Cards like the RTX 3060 Ti, RTX 3070, and RTX 3070 Ti declined by double digits, and the RTX 3060, was hammered as it went from 9.92 per cent to 5.04 per cent. Every AMD card from the last three generations went up.
| Header Cell – Column 0 | September | October | November |
|---|---|---|---|
| RTX 3060 | 6.27% | 9.92% | 5.04% |
| RTX 3060 Ti | 4.04% | 4.95% | 3.54% |
| RTX 3070 | 3.62% | 5.18% | 3.23% |
| RTX 3070 Ti | 1.53% | 1.91% | 1.5% |
| RTX 3080 | 2.16% | 2.64% | 2.21% |
| RTX 3090 | 0.54% | 0.49% | 0.60% |
| RX 560 | 0.16% | 0% | 0.16% |
| RX 570 | 0.70% | 0.53% | 0.73% |
| RX 580 | 0.95% | 0.74% | 1.01% |
| RX 5500 XT | 0.20% | 0.16% | 0.21% |
| RX 5600 XT | 0.24% | 0.17% | 0.24% |
| RX 5700 XT | 0.63% | 0.50% | 0.68% |
| RX 6500 XT | 0.20% | 0% | 0.20% |
| RX 6600 | 0.57% | 0.45% | 0.66% |
| RX 6600 XT | 0.38% | 0.32% | 0.41% |
| RX 6650 XT | 0.23% | 0.19% | 0.28% |
| RX 6700 XT | 0.64% | 0.53% | 0.74% |
| RX 6750 XT | 0.24% | 0.19% | 0.28% |
| RX 6800 XT | 0.31% | 0.23% | 0.34% |
| RX 6900 XT | 0.23% | 0.18% | 0.26% |
| Header Cell – Column 0 | September | October | November |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMD CPUs | 32.1% | 26.2% | 34.7% |
| Intel CPUs | 67.9% | 73.8% | 65.3% |
| 6-core CPUs | 35% | 39.8% | 31.9% |
| 4-core CPUs | 23.4% | 18.9% | 23% |
| AVX512VNNI support | 9.9% | 9.5% | 10.6% |
| 16GB RAM | 51.3% | 48.1% | 49.9% |
It looks like the October results were just bad and AMD is back to growing at the expense of Nvidia and Intel as it did for the rest of the year.
October’s survey saw significant CPU gains for Intel, but in November, that’s been completely reversed, much like Nvidia’s GPU gains. AMD controls a third of the market, while Intel has the other two-thirds. Additionally, usage of 6-core CPUs declined as quad-cores rose, but that only brings things back to September levels.
The share of 4-core and 6-core CPUs is back to September’s figures, with quad cores going back up and hexa cores going back down. These numbers also changed slightly, so it’s not just noise.
Support for the AX512VNNI instruction is also interesting, as it’s only supported by Intel’s 11th to 14th Gen Raptor Lake Refresh CPUs and AMD’s Ryzen 7000 series. It indicates roughly 10 per cent of Steam users own one of these CPUs, and it also saw a strange fluctuation. The usage of 16GB of RAM, the most popular amount for some time, also saw a slight dip in October that has now mostly gone away.
One of the final trends is the rapid gain of Windows 11 at Windows 10’s expense. Windows 11’s share increased by 11.5 per cent, nearly as much as Windows 10 lost 12.1 per cent. This offsets what happened in October, which saw Windows 11 lose 6.9 per cent share while Windows 10 gained 7.6 per cent. Windows 11 is now at 42 per cent share to Windows 10’s 53.5 per cent.
In October, Chinese overtook English as the main language on Steal with a 13.7 per cent surge in usage, putting it at 45.9 per cent. But now English is back on top again, with Chinese further away than in September.
| Header Cell – Column 0 | September | October | November |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windows 10 | 56% | 65.6% | 53.5% |
| Windows 11 | 37.4% | 30.5% | 42% |
| English | 32.3% | 26.4% | 36% |
| Chinese | 32.2% | 45.9% | 26% |
