Intel reverses the trend in Steam's processor usage survey by snatching a significant chunk of AMD's overall share

[Redaktion]

Intel has witnessed a surprising reversal of fortune in Steam's Hardware & Software Survey for March in terms of processor usage. While the chipmaker has been losing share against AMD consistently month after month, the latest data from Steam shows that Team Blue has now actually regained a significant amount of ground.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-reverses-the-trend-in-Steam-s-processor-usage-survey-by-snatching-a-significant-chunk-of-AMD-s-overall-share.459884.0.html

[mikeal]

It's most probably due to pandemic and home-office/layoffs - and ever expanding boredom.

From detailed data we can see that it's not the high-performance CPUs that reversed the Intel trend in March, but mostly sub-3Ghz units.

As a way to confirm this, check GPU share and scroll down to DirectX 11 and 10 - Intel HD 4000 alone gained almost 3%, Intel 3000 the same.

People clearly dusted up their Steam accounts(or made new ones) to weather through mandatory stay-at-home boredom.

[mikeal]

It's most probably due to pandemic and home-office/layoffs - and ever expanding boredom.

From detailed data we can see that it's not the high-performance CPUs that reversed the Intel trend in March, but mostly sub-3Ghz units.

As a way to confirm this, check GPU share and scroll down to DirectX 11 and 10 - Intel HD 4000 alone gained almost 3%, Intel 3000 the same.

People clearly dusted up their Steam accounts(or made new ones) to weather through mandatory stay-at-home boredom.

... On older, office laptops.

[william blake]

amd=better engineers
intel=better management

[maxarr]

Thank you mikeal for a good analysis.
Sucks that the editor did not fact finding before posting an article. He probably just jumped and copy pasted it. Media, reporters and so called tech bloggers are all phoney cop outs. Do some work you freeloaders

[Valantar]

It's most probably due to pandemic and home-office/layoffs - and ever expanding boredom.

From detailed data we can see that it's not the high-performance CPUs that reversed the Intel trend in March, but mostly sub-3Ghz units.

As a way to confirm this, check GPU share and scroll down to DirectX 11 and 10 - Intel HD 4000 alone gained almost 3%, Intel 3000 the same.

People clearly dusted up their Steam accounts(or made new ones) to weather through mandatory stay-at-home boredom.

My thoughts exactly. In times like these when a massive amount of people are suddenly forced to stay home, they're likely to seek out new forms of entertainment. Gaming is one possibility then, and as these people are highly unlikely to already own a game console or to buy/build a new PC just to play some games to pass the time, they'll use what they have. Which is likely an Intel laptop from a few years back. An entirely predictable development that doesn't tell us anything new about market share or sales numbers - the Steam Hardware Survey never really does, as there are too many intermediate steps between it and those types of data for them to be properly read out from survey data.

[grrr]

Recently upgraded my alienware alpha from i3-4130T to i7-4770T. Still waiting for the next generation of steam boxes... There are a few with 9300h + 2060ti but ryzen 4000 would be way better

[SocialGamer]

This type of information is so pointless that it's a waste of time messing with fanboy feelings. Does it truly matter which processer we use? Nope.... At this point weather Ryzen 9 or Intel i9 we're all rocking out games easily. I have both rigs in my home and I play on either one... Don't think about a processer when I'm playing a game since I can max games on both platforms.