Two more AMD graphics cards join the Steam survey, as Team Red achieves record CPU share

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What just happened? The latest Steam survey is here. November's results suggest that gaming laptops are becoming increasingly popular, especially ones with the RTX 4060 mobile variant, which could soon become the most popular GPU among participants. Elsewhere, two AMD cards have finally entered the chart more than a year after they were first released, and Team Red continues to chip away at Intel's CPU dominance, rising to its highest-ever user share.

Starting with the Steam survey's graphics section, last month's biggest gains went to the RTX 4060 laptop GPU, up another 0.6%. That means the mobile version of the Lovelace product is just 0.11% away from overtaking the RTX 3060 and becoming the most popular GPU on the survey.

Best-performing GPUs among Steam survey participants in November

The second and fourth biggest gains were also laptop variants, of the RTX 3060 and RTX 4070, respectively, while the RTX 4050 laptop GPU sits in 11th place. Somewhat surprisingly, the best-performing desktop card in November was the RTX 3050.

AMD will doubtlessly be pleased to see two more of its cards enter the main table. The Radeon RX 7700 XT, which launched in August 2023, and the Radeon RX 6750 GRE 10GB, released in October 2023, both landed with a 0.17% share. It comes a month after Intel's Arc graphics attracted enough users (0.18%) to enter the primary chart, though there isn't a breakdown of individual Arc GPUs.

Most-popular GPUs among Steam survey participants in November

Looking at the overall GPU chart. The RTX 3060 leader fell 0.73% last month as the 4060 laptop breathes down its neck. Nvidia still dominates, with just over three quarters of all participants using one of Team Green's GPUs.

Moving onto CPUs, AMD continues to steal share from Intel. A near 2% increase brings Lisa Su's firm up to a 35.7% share, a record high. The Raptor Lake problems and lukewarm reception to the Core Ultra 200S series, combined with AMD's brilliant Ryzen 7 9800X3D chip, are no doubt influencing the chart.

Elsewhere, Windows 11 continues to gain users and cement its position as the most popular OS. It was up more than 4% last month as Windows 10 fell by a similar number. With the older version's end-of-support date less than a year away, expect its popularity to keep declining.

The rest of the survey remains pretty much unchanged, though it is interesting to see that the Oculus Quest 2 – later rebranded as the Meta Quest 2 – which has been the most popular VR for years, is seeing its lead margin decline as the Meta Quest 3's popularity keeps rising.

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Two more AMD graphics cards join the Steam survey, as Team Red achieves record CPU share

 
2026 will be decisive year for Intel with Nova Lake. If they can't manage to close the gap to Zen 6 I think AMD will manage to get passed 50% in these surveys.
 
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Language is always the tell:

-3.23% Simplified Chinese
+0.99% Russian
+0.69% Japanese
+0.59% Korean (more than tripled)

There are no actual trends, just demographic changes in who got the survey. Also known as:

NOISE
 
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Burty117 said:
If only AMD and Intel could compete at the high end.
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I wish.

They were on the right track. The 6900xt butted heads with the 3090; but was undercut by prioritization of EPYC chips and Ryzen chips at TSMC, and the 7900xtx was somewhat competitive with the 4080. For the first year or so it was hard to find a 7900 series card, and until the end the 6000s were unobtanium. I was looking forward to getting a 8900xtx, given AMD managed a 50% uplift in one generation, but that has been totally dashed. They really need to get their RT hardware sorted out, like it or not its here to stay.

Intel....man they cant even get their CPUs straightened out. Alchemist should be way better then it is. Bigger than a 3070 but slower at times then a 3060. That's a serious flaw. Even if battlemage fixes that problem, the drivers are still a far cry from AMD or nvidia, and I will never understand why they are using TSMC instead of their own internal fabs. This is like the best case use of having their own fabs and they are squandering it.
 
Want. AMD knows that Nvidia fanboys will buy Nvidia anyway so why bother. AMD could easily beat RTX4090 if they just want because using same size die (GCD same size as AD102), AMD would be much faster. But it's not worth the effort.
 
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There's a lot of high end buyers out there. And right now, nvidia is their only option.
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I didn't know 1% of buyers was "a lot". The 4090 is a stupid product, there are like 3 games where it's useful and only 1 of them is any good(2077).

So unless you need to play games at 300+FPS, it's essentially useless. Ray tracing has been under utilized by devs when it was originally sold as a way to bring development time down while also increasing graphics fidelity.
 
yRaz said:
I didn't know 1% of buyers was "a lot". The 4090 is a stupid product, there are like 3 games where it's useful and only 1 of them is any good(2077).

So unless you need to play games at 300+FPS, it's essentially useless. Ray tracing has been under utilized by devs when it was originally sold as a way to bring development time down while also increasing graphics fidelity.
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Am I reading the stats wrong? 0.17% have a 7700XT, 1.03% have 4090's?
Which is 5x more 4090's being used for gaming than 7700XT's?

We're talking about a £1600+ GPU vs a £360 GPU, and the £1600+ GPU actually sold 5x more. Or am I reading into it wrong? I've been known to read these things wrong before.
 
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Burty117 said:
Am I reading the stats wrong? 0.17% have a 7700XT, 1.03% have 4090's?
Which is 5x more 4090's being used for gaming than 7700XT's?

We're talking about a £1600+ GPU vs a £360 GPU, and the £1600+ GPU actually sold 5x more. Or am I reading into it wrong? I've been known to read these things wrong before.
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Didn't know I said anything about the 7700XT or its marketshare, thanks for telling me. Now that I'm aware I said that the 7700XT outsold the 4090 I'm going to go ahead and not change my opinion on the 4090 being a stupid product.
 
yRaz said:
Didn't know I said anything about the 7700XT or its marketshare, thanks for telling me. Now that I'm aware I said that the 7700XT outsold the 4090 I'm going to go ahead and not change my opinion on the 4090 being a stupid product.
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Just pointing out 1% is a lot, its definitely not insignificant, So thought I'd compare the 4090 sales to what this article is about, AMD selling enough GPU's to even make it onto the board.
 
Burty117 said:
Just pointing out 1% is a lot, its definitely not insignificant, So thought I'd compare the 4090 sales to what this article is about, AMD selling enough GPU's to even make it onto the board.
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AMD is selling plenty of GPUs, just not the fancy kind. Ask M$ and Sony what GPUs they're selling. Or don't, I actually don't have the energy for this argument as I get older
 
yRaz said:
AMD is selling plenty of GPUs, just not the fancy kind. Ask M$ and Sony what GPUs they're selling. Or don't, I actually don't have the energy for this argument as I get older
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Woah there! I'm not arguing, I'm pointing out, 1% is shockingly high for such an expensive GPU.

I own a PS5 Pro, I own a SteamDeck, I have a smaller PC with a 7600 in, I actually have more AMD GPU's than I do Nvidia GPU's. I'm aware overall, AMD has loads of GPU's out there. You could also say Nvidia aren't doing too badly since the Nintendo Switch is the second best selling console of all time, but I digress.

With all that being said, the fact 5x more people are playing with a 4090 vs a 7700XT is kinda outragous, like properly absurd when you think about it. That 1% is a huge number for the price the GPU is.
 
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I didn't know 1% of buyers was "a lot". The 4090 is a stupid product, there are like 3 games where it's useful and only 1 of them is any good(2077).

So unless you need to play games at 300+FPS, it's essentially useless. Ray tracing has been under utilized by devs when it was originally sold as a way to bring development time down while also increasing graphics fidelity.
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Yeah, 1% of a multi billion dollar market IS a "lot". That is higher marketshare then most AMD cards ever get to. And they sell for silly prices.

The 4090 is no less stupid than any other halo product out there.
 
Theinsanegamer said:
Yeah, 1% of a multi billion dollar market IS a "lot". That is higher marketshare then most AMD cards ever get to. And they sell for silly prices.

The 4090 is no less stupid than any other halo product out there.
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Which is why Nvidia has been raising the price every generation. With the rise of the middle class in China & now India, that adds 2.8 billion consumers that can buy graphics cards. If just 1% of 2.8billion people can afford a 4090, well, that's an incredible amount of consumers that have the money for these kinds of cards. So I see prices going up for the 5090 with no issue on the demand side.
 
Theinsanegamer said:
Yeah, 1% of a multi billion dollar market IS a "lot". That is higher marketshare then most AMD cards ever get to. And they sell for silly prices.

The 4090 is no less stupid than any other halo product out there.
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1% is certainly a significant portion of the gaming business, but I still think it's a dumb product only useful if you do nothing but play CyberPunk.

So the idea that we make our baseline from a product that's essentially useless outside of a few games is absurd at best and ludachris at worst. Ray tracing didn't turn out to be the revolution that nVidia tried to sell us on. Since ray tracing has become near pointless, so have their products.
 
Burty117 said:
Am I reading the stats wrong? 0.17% have a 7700XT, 1.03% have 4090's?
Which is 5x more 4090's being used for gaming than 7700XT's?

We're talking about a £1600+ GPU vs a £360 GPU, and the £1600+ GPU actually sold 5x more. Or am I reading into it wrong? I've been known to read these things wrong before.
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The 4090 is the only card for the literal 1%ers out there who could not care less about overpaying for the best. If you can find a better one, please point it out.

The 7700 XT is a card with a lot of competition where different buyers have lots of choices depending on their needs and budget, including loads used choices. None of those for the 4090.

Now the percentages make more sense.
 
Burty117 said:
Am I reading the stats wrong? 0.17% have a 7700XT, 1.03% have 4090's?
Which is 5x more 4090's being used for gaming than 7700XT's?

We're talking about a £1600+ GPU vs a £360 GPU, and the £1600+ GPU actually sold 5x more. Or am I reading into it wrong? I've been known to read these things wrong before.
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Well, these surveys are somewhat informal to say the least. In fact, people have said they don't even reflect what's going on in the "real world".

With that said, I think those exulted few who are rocking a 4090, would be more inclined to brag about it. Sort of like a "macho measuring contest".

If I read the chart correctly, the most prevalent card overall the GTX-1650. While conspicuously absent is the 1660 ti or Super. Save for 2 extra GB of VRAM, the 1660s will hold their own with the 2060s, which were frankly a bad buy. due to the uselessness of the ray tracing function.

It's nice to see the GTX-1050 ti hanging in there, albeit by the skin of its 6 pin power plug.
 
yRaz said:
I didn't know 1% of buyers was "a lot". The 4090 is a stupid product, there are like 3 games where it's useful and only 1 of them is any good(2077).

So unless you need to play games at 300+FPS, it's essentially useless. Ray tracing has been under utilized by devs when it was originally sold as a way to bring development time down while also increasing graphics fidelity.
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What are you talking about, are you a 60 fps gamer? 4090 can "buckle" in tons of games at 4K/UHD, won't even deliver crazy high fps at 1440p DLAA, considering 360+ Hz 1440p monitors exist.

I own 4090, with OC and UV, making it perform 8-10% better than stock and I am using 360 Hz 1440p and 240 Hz 4K and the card is def not overkill at all, and I have to tweak settings to maintain 250+ fps (1440p) / 100+ fps (4K) which is my minimum acceptable fps for PC gaming for these monitors.

I don't buy 360 Hz to play at 100 fps and I don't go 4K/240Hz to play at 60 fps average.

4090 sold well because it was fast as hell especially in 4K+ compared to all other cards. Many newer games already pushing it hard. Alan Wake 2, Cyberpunk 2077, Hellblade 2 etc etc.

Only card in 5000 series that will be faster than 4090 is 5090, unless we see a 5080 Ti eventually, so picking up 4090 for about 2½ years ago (at the time 5090 actually launches) was a good purchase for me and many others. You don't find this kind of performance elsewhere, not even with 5080 and both 4080 and 7900XTX are vastly slower in actual high-res gaming.
 
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