Good news for tech giant AMD! The number of systems connected to the Steam platform using AMD processors continues to grow, increasing by over 25% in September 2020. We're seeing an average monthly market share growth of 1%. Steam conducts a monthly survey on the hardware and software configurations used by its users. This result confirms the commercial success of the American company AMD since the first generation of Ryzen processors in March 2017.
Statistical Analysis
Let's analyze the statistics from the last few months. In May, its market share was 22.45%, compared to 25.75% in September. AMD is thus gaining an average of 1% each month . Over the last two months, AMD's share has increased considerably, rising from 23.73% in July to 25.75% in September. This data pertains to the Windows . For Linux, AMD processors are gaining even more ground: 33.4% in September 2020 compared to 28.48% in May. This represents a net increase of at least 1.25% per month .
Balance of power for graphics card manufacturers
Regarding video card manufacturers: AMD holds just over 16% market share, while Intel holds 10%. The remaining share is held by NVIDIA GPUs, with just under 74% of the total. We will closely monitor the evolution of these statistics following the launch of the latest generation of NVIDIA and AMD video cards. This statistic will change in the coming months following the public's reception of AMD's Ryzen 5000 series based on the Zen 3 architecture . Intel, for its part, will launch its discrete GPU solutions based on the Xe Graphics architecture. The competition appears fierce, but AMD is on a strong trajectory.
