AMD Closes in on Intel in Latest Steam Hardware Survey (tomshardware.com)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/26/01/02/1719244/amd-closes-in-on-intel-in-latest-steam-hardware-survey
- Source link: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/amd-closes-in-on-intel-in-latest-steam-hardware-survey-ram-capacity-continues-to-rise-despite-the-ongoing-memory-crunch
The gains came despite an ongoing memory shortage that has pushed DDR5 prices to record highs -- AMD's AM5 platform requires DDR5 exclusively, while Intel's Raptor Lake Refresh chips support both DDR4 and DDR5. Many gamers are turning to older AMD Zen 3 processors like the Ryzen 5 5800X, which topped Amazon's bestseller lists during the holiday period and work on DDR4-compatible platforms. Meanwhile, the proportion of Steam users running 32GB of RAM rose to 39.07%, nearly matching the 40.14% still on 16GB, as gamers likely rushed to upgrade before prices climbed further amid AI's demand for memory.
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Intel? (Score:2)
Intel, what the heck happened to you? In the past I would have never considered an AMD processor and/or GPU. Now it looks like the only way forward. How the mighty have fallen.
Re: Intel? (Score:2)
I've used AMD happily in the past but never expected them to gain remotely close to the market share they have. Seems to be a combination of AMD actually producing value for money and intel not really improving much whilst charging more.
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Athlon was great in P3-P4 era. Bulldozer sucked monkey balls and got utterly crushed by intel's offerings at the time. It wasn't until ryzens that AMD recovered.
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> Intel, what the heck happened to you? In the past I would have never considered an AMD processor and/or GPU. Now it looks like the only way forward. How the mighty have fallen.
Ryzen happened. Then the Intel 13/14th gen happened that had stability issues. Then Intel's latest gen CPUs bombed because they couldn't beat Ryzen in any metric. The pandemic really helped.
However, Intel 13th/14th gen are making a comeback thanks to AI - because they can run DDR4 memory. AMD's AM5 platform is DDR5 only, and if you've
Steam survey lagging (Score:1)
The last truly dominant desktop CPU Intel produced was the 9900k. The last competitive gaming CPU they produced was the 12900k. The 13900k and 14900k destroy themselves, and the 285k was too little/too late. Gotta wonder why Intel still has so much representation on the Steam Survey?
Re: Steam survey lagging (Score:2)
Probably because CPUs don't normally poof themselves out of existence after a year or two. There's probably a significant number of people in the survey with a d cade old machine still running small games just fine. There's also a not insignificant number of laptop users where Intel carries on just fine.
Re: Steam survey lagging (Score:2)
I still have a i5-9400F that does everything I need. Won't be replacing it anytime soon unless something breaks (the i5-9400F in fact was a purchase forced on me by a motherboard failure in January of 2020)
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Because not everyone playing on Steam has a big, powerful gaming rig. I myself am on Steam, but the computer I use to play the occasional game is an old Lenovo T14 laptop - with an Intel CPU. People like me playing on their laptops really tilt the balance towards Intel.
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Laptops remain the domain of intel.
Also you don't need to upgrade CPU for many years now.
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x64 is the important one at this point.
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Why would anyone invest a lot of money to build x86 chips that can use only older, "patent-expired" parts of the instruction set - while more modern CPU instruction sets like RISC V are free to use? Especially at a time where the existing x86 patent holders are struggling to defend their market position?
Latest survey looks sus (Score:2)
English language went up 10%, a bunch of others went up too, but no language lost market share enough to compensate? Big jumps all over the place. I'd wait till next one to see if stuff balances out again. I think the guy cleaning up the numbers is still on holiday.