AMD has claimed 30% of the gaming CPU market from Intel
Painting the town Red
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AMDhas made a swift comeback in recent months, after a period of being the underdog againstIntelin the CPU market. The tides are starting to change, with Team Red now clawing back a healthy 30% market share forgaming PC CPUsaccording to the latestSteam Hardware Survey.
As pointed out byPC Gamer, this news isn’t exactly surprising, but we expected AMD to reach this point much sooner given its recent rise in popularity, so it’s likely that stock issues fueled by theongoing global shortage of siliconhave resulted in slow progress, especially with the demand forAMD processorsso high.Given the way thatSteamcollects data for its Hardware Survey though, we can’t actually show what products in the AMD processor lineup are winning the popularity contest, like we can for the GPU hardware survey, as only operating frequencies and core numbers are stored. All we can gather from the chart is that 8-core chips are leading the boost.
Don’t look so blue, Intel
Last month we reported that AMD Ryzen processors weregrowing in popularityfor Steam users, having gained around a 7% increase in just 12 months.When theZen 3 Ryzen 5000 serieswas launched at the end of 2020, they were so impressive that they quickly become some of the most highly sought-after products on the market for gaming, shooting to the top of our own list for thebest CPUsandbreaking launch records. Unable to keep supplies for coveted products like theRyzen 5900XandRyzen 5 5600Xto match the demand, this percentage could likely have been much higher.There’s a good chance that we will see this pattern continue for the foreseeable future too, given how badly Intel’s latestRocket Lake 11th gen processorshave reviewed, withGamers Nexusgoing as far as to dub thei7-11700Ka ‘waste of sand’.AMD’s phoenix-like rise from the ashes has been viewedeven more successfullyoutside of a gaming environment too, with a previous survey fromPassMarkshowed AMD with a 50.8% share of the Windows desktop CPU market worldwide to 49.2% for Team Blue on January 4, 2021.Of course, for any further growth it’s likely we’ll need to see stock availability improve to enable gamers and PC building hobbyists to actually get their hands on the hardware. With issues expected to continue well into 2022, there’s always a chance that Intel could come back swinging when the next generation of processors is announced.
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Jess is a former TechRadar Computing writer, where she covered all aspects of Mac and PC hardware, including PC gaming and peripherals. She has been interviewed as an industry expert for the BBC, and while her educational background was in prosthetics and model-making, her true love is in tech and she has built numerous desktop computers over the last 10 years for gaming and content creation. Jess is now a journalist at The Verge.
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