Steam survey highlights AMD’s amazing year – Ryzen CPUs now comprise 40% of participants
in short: The results of December’s Steam Survey are in. The last month of the year is always a fun month as it heralds popular Christmas gifts while also setting the stage for the future. What was the most obvious takeaway from December? 2024 is indeed AMD’s year – at least when it comes to CPUs.
Starting with the processor category, AMD’s share among participants hit another all-time high in December. Valve survey. Team Red users grew by 3.02% last month, taking the total to 38.7%, while Intel saw a slight decline to 63.4%.
The fact that nearly 40% of participants (on Windows) now use AMD CPUs is as much a testament to the company’s success as it is to Intel’s failure. It wasn’t that long ago that AMD seemed destined to never grow its Steam user share above 30%.
Zen 5 doesn’t bring any earth-shattering changes arrivebut still more popular than Intel’s Arrow Lake Core Ultra Series 2 desktops CPU. Then came the Ryzen 7 9800X3D chip, which earned us the title of “King of the New Gaming CPUs.” review It’s proven to be so popular sold out everywhere. instability question Defects in Intel’s 13th and 14th generation processors are also hurting sales of its older chips.
Turning to the GPU segment, the biggest gains this month were primarily shared by the RTX 40-series and 30-series xx60 and xx70 cards, with the RTX 4060 leading the way. Somewhat surprisingly, the venerable GTX 1650 had the fourth-highest increase.
AMD’s best-performing desktop graphics card this month is the Radeon RX 6600, ranked 27th.
The RTX 3060 remains the most popular card among participants. Mid-range Ampere and Lovelace GPUs occupy almost all the spots in the top 11, with the only exceptions being the GTX 1650 in fourth place and the GTX 2060 in tenth place.
Elsewhere, Windows 11 is now undoubtedly the most popular operating system in the survey. In December, Windows 10’s market share dropped to 42.3%, and its market share increased by another 2% to nearly 55%.
With the end of support date for older Windows versions still 10 months away, this trend is expected to continue. However, when looking at global users, the situation is different: Windows 10’s share has grown to 62.7% for two consecutive months, while Windows 11 has dropped to 34.1%.
Looking at the rest of the survey overall, 16GB RAM remains the most popular system RAM amount, but its lead is declining as second place 32GB grows; this trend is also reflected in the VRAM category.
Although 1080p is currently mostly limited to budget models or gaming monitors with extremely high refresh rates, more than half (56.1%) of participants used this resolution. 1440p is the second most popular format, accounting for 19.5%.
English jumped 9% in the language category in December, solidifying its top spot with a 42.1% share, while Chinese, in second place, dropped slightly to 29.9%. Finally, most people still have over 1TB of hard drive space, but only 100GB to 249GB of available space.
2025-01-03 10:15:00