Good news for the giant AMD! The number of systems connected to the Steam platform using AMD processors continues to increase. This is more than 25% in September 2020 . We note an average growth of 1% every month in market share. Steam conducts a monthly survey of the hardware and software configurations used by its users. And this result confirms the commercial success of the American company AMD since the first generation of Ryzen processors in March 2017.
Analysis of statistics
Let's analyze the statistics of recent months. In May, its market share was equal to 22.45% compared to 25.75% in September. AMD thus gains on average 1% each month . Over the past 2 months, AMD's share has increased significantly, from 23.73% in July to 25.75% in September. Windows operating system . For Linux, AMD processors are gaining even more ground: 33.4% in September 2020 compared to 28.48% in May. That is to say a net increase of at least 1.25% monthly .
Balance of power for graphics card manufacturers
Regarding video card manufacturers: AMD holds a little over 16% market share, Intel holds 10%. The remaining share is in the hands of 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 NVIDIA and AMD video cards. This statistic will change in a few months following the public reception of AMD Ryzen 5000 series based on the Zen 3 architecture . Intel will launch its discrete GPU solutions based on the Xe Graphics architecture. The competition seems tough, but AMD is on a good path.
