The newest Steam {Hardware} Survey has been launched and it is a good time to be AMD with the corporate making regular positive aspects over the previous few months.
In September, AMD achieved the 25 p.c share milestone relating to what processor Steam customers have. That is a acquire of 0.84 p.c over the earlier month with an enchancment of over three p.c since Might. It is a regular enhance for the corporate that is certain to encourage them even additional.
We’re speculating that a lot of that is due to AMD’s Zen three processors doing a formidable job of enhancing single-threaded efficiency in current instances in comparison with Intel, whereas additionally being moderately nicely priced quite a lot of the time.
It looks like that development will proceed with the upcoming announcement of all issues Zen three later this week. It is anticipated that we’ll see new high-end Ryzen 5000 collection processors introduced with doable Ryzen 9 5900X benchmarks displaying up earlier this week in addition to information of Ryzen 7 5800X benchmarks final week.
The Steam {Hardware} Survey has additionally highlighted regular positive aspects for all graphics playing cards of a GeForce flavour. The GeForce RTX 1060 stays the GPU of selection with the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti simply behind it.
Maybe most curiously of all, there’s been an almost 2 p.c enhance in the usage of the Oculus Rift S VR headset. We’re guessing that is attributable to quite a few elements. Half-Life: Alyx launched again in March and avid gamers might have lastly invested in VR by now, however the prospect of VR-based Microsoft Flight Simulator within the close to future can even probably assist right here. Plus, there’s additionally Star Wars: Squadrons for these wanting a extra fictional based mostly flight expertise. VR hasn’t seen the expansion that some builders might have hoped for, particularly as Half-Life: Alyx was thought-about probably a killer app, however regular development is regular development, even when it is smaller than hoped.
As at all times, the Steam {Hardware} Survey stays an fascinating means of seeing how developments are altering over time, and what avid gamers are in search of out with their upgrades.
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