News AMD CPUs, 64GB RAM, and Windows 11 show strong gains in the latest Steam Hardware Survey

[Admin]

Steam Hardware Survey sees strong growth in AMD CPU market share. Consumers are also beginning to favor PC systems with 64GB of RAM and Windows 11.

AMD CPUs, 64GB RAM, and Windows 11 show strong gains in the latest Steam Hardware Survey : Read more

 

[ottonis]

From the article: "The figure is likely skewed by Intel's strength in pre-built and laptop systems."

A decade and a half ago, or even longer, there were accusations against Intel to have bribed and/or blackmailed vendors to not build and not sell AMD-based computers. If I remember correctly, Intel had been found guilty of such behaviour. I wonder, how much of that have persisted up until now and how much builders, vendors and retailers are either afraid of losing business with Intel or getting some other disadvantages if they build or sell too many AMD products.

 

[oddrobert7]

From the article: "The figure is likely skewed by Intel's strength in pre-built and laptop systems."

A decade and a half ago, or even longer, there were accusations against Intel to have bribed and/or blackmailed vendors to not build and not sell AMD-based computers. If I remember correctly, Intel had been found guilty of such behaviour. I wonder, how much of that have persisted up until now and how much builders, vendors and retailers are either afraid of losing business with Intel or getting some other disadvantages if they build or sell too many AMD products.

On laptop dGPU nvidia have such a monopoly, not to buy nvidia you must go out of your way and look around to find anything AMD.
Would gladly pay more not to support those companies, but there are few viable products on sellers pages, even less second hand.
1:100 ratio seriously doubt it markets sentiment or better product, just plain force of big guy.

"The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must"

 

[thestryker]

I got a survey popup which surprised me as I'm not used to seeing them. I still really wish Valve used the platform to get some really good specifications data collection. They have the capability but whatever method they're using still ends up with weird swings and some data which is likely unrepresentative.

From the article: "The figure is likely skewed by Intel's strength in pre-built and laptop systems."

A decade and a half ago, or even longer, there were accusations against Intel to have bribed and/or blackmailed vendors to not build and not sell AMD-based computers. If I remember correctly, Intel had been found guilty of such behaviour. I wonder, how much of that have persisted up until now and how much builders, vendors and retailers are either afraid of losing business with Intel or getting some other disadvantages if they build or sell too many AMD products.

That was around two decades ago, and then they wrote a big check to AMD ~15 years ago to settle the matter. It wasn't necessary for Intel to continue doing it because AMD wasn't offering a superior product anymore. Intel still carries so much of the market for mostly three reasons: momentum, volume and how they work with OEMs.

 

[usertests]

If you see 64 GB under $100, just buy it and think later.

48 GB could catch on, but it's DDR5 only, and more expensive than what I paid for 64 GB DDR4.

 

[StuWiFi6DDR5]

If you see 64 GB under $100, just buy it and think later.

48 GB could catch on, but it's DDR5 only, and more expensive than what I paid for 64 GB DDR4.

I picked up 64GB, of ddr5, for $185, in 4.8GHz, about 9 months ago, somebody else, got 32GB of 6GHz for about the same price. It’s a battle, bios problems, with AM5 motherboards, widows 11 update problems. But the dream of larger, faster ram and pcie5, to run AI lives on, when they took out the xdna, from the 9000 series AMD apus, I was gutted. So I just got a Mac mini M4, with 38 tops of machine learning, 16GB of unified memory, for $600.

 

[usertests]

when they took out the xdna, from the 9000 series AMD apu

What? There is no 9000 APU and Kraken/Strix Point/Halo have XDNA2.

 

[StuWiFi6DDR5]

What? There is no 9000 APU and Kraken/Strix Point/Halo have XDNA2.

Correct, much to my surprise, after the 8000 series, had 16 tops, of XDNA, the 9000 series 0 tops, of XDNA, I was expecting 50 tops of XDNA, only on the laptop and mini computer, eg. 370 chips. So I had to go the graphics route, a 7000 series graphics card, bios problems, widows 11 update problems etc.