As we all know by now that AMD has been quite dominant in the CPU market segment, be it Gaming or professional, and has given Intel a run for their money. It is also no secret that AMD’s new processor division/branch has undergone a significant revival since past few years or so.
AMD continues to achieve a win in the CPU market, with Steam’s latest Hardware Survey now reporting a 25% market share for AMD processors, which marks a new milestone for the Red Team.
AMD will officially announce its next-gen Zen 3-based CPU lineup on October 8, and the company has been decidedly marketing these Ryzen 5000 series Zen 3 CPUs as gaming processors.
Valve’s gaming platform STEAM does a random survey asking users to post data about their hardware. Of course, the data is not perfectly representative of the market as a whole, but it still paints a picture of the current market trend. According to the latest data AMD made up 22.45 percent of registered CPUs in May this year, and that number has been growing by about 0.8-1 percentage points every month. Intel still takes the crown with a share of nearly 74 percent.
AMD used to have a slight disadvantage in gaming back in the old days when compared to Intel processors, but the company tried to make multi-core approach more popular in early 2011, with their new Bulldozer CPU architecture. Though, it wasn’t until 2017 when AMD made a huge comeback with its 1st Gen Ryzen CPU architecture which helped shape and change the gaming CPU landscape, and also allowed them to start gaining back market share, especially from PC and Gaming enthusiasts.
AMD’s main focus at that time was on high core counts and IPC uplift with the RYZEN series of processors. At this time, the Ryzen 3000-series Zen 2 CPU lineup goes toe-to-toe with Intel in gaming benchmarks for the first time since 2006.
If AMD’s upcoming Zen 3 chips can deliver the promise of high gaming performance, then we could see a massive shift in consumer market share for AMD.
They have all the firepower they need to dominate the consumer space as a whole. It was already reported before that AMD’s upcoming next-gen Zen 3-based processors will have the 5000 series nomenclature. Likely to be fabbed on the TSMC’s 7nm+ EUV process node, the Zen 3 architecture is said to deliver better performance per watt ratio and efficiency than the previous Zen 2 lineup, which was already a revolutionary architecture from AMD.
According to some leaked official documents, Vermeer CPUs will be designed to be used in high-performance desktop platforms, and they are also going to feature up to two CCD’s (Core/Cache Complex Dies) and a single IOD (I/O Die).
We expect the Zen 3 architecture to bring at least 17% IPC uplift as compared to the previous gen Zen 2 CPU lineup. Zen 2 CPUs already featured double the L3 cache over the Zen/Zen+ series chips, and Zen 3 is going to take things to a whole new level. AMD’s next-generation Zen 3 architecture aims to alleviate some of the shortcomings of AMD’s existing architecture designs.
So, expect some AMD CPUs going as high as 5 GHz, to give Intel a stiff competition on the single-core frequency, along with a 50% increase in Zen 3’s floating-point operations and a major cache redesign.
The AMD Zen 3 Vermeer series of processors will retain the multi-chip module (MCM) approach, the chipset design.
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Brace yourselves, a war is coming
I think its alredy over…..
What? Intel will release a the same cpu with one more +?
The battle is over, but the war will go on. Better for us consumers.
Lets hope we don’t end up with basically one monopoly changing place with another – That would be bad, competition needs to be maintained in order to drive innovation forward and keep prices in check.
The war came 6 years ago when Lisa Su became the CEO of AMD. She correctly analyzed that AMD couldn’t beat both Nvidia and Intel at the same time so she eventually put most of the R&D money into Ryzen and let the GPU division languish and she’s not done yet. She knows what she’s doing. It’s funny to watch Intel suffer because of their laziness and arrogance all of these years.
AMD had an excellent opportunity and took it, intel screwed themselves over due to lack of innovation and now that the competition have become fierce they still haven’t manage to build momentum.
Intel exposed their corporate arrogance when they responded to overclockers complaints that the K CPUs were poor overclockers because of the cheap TIM used under the Heat Spreader instead of solder which saved Intel a few pennies per chip using the cheap TIM. Customers were paying extra for the K series for one and only one reason. Because they wanted to overclock the CPUs.
Intel’s response to the complaints “Then don’t overclock them“. I lost a lot of respect for Intel at that time.
Had an 7700k so know first hand how poorly intel handled that one for instance… first take a premium due to claiming its made to overclock then recommend not to do what you paid extra for… 8700k was even worse with its toothpaste tim.
Thats a big win
STEAM….EFFING…SURVEY..IS…NOT…EFFING…MARKET SHARE!!! FFS!!
Wut
Steam survey is being conflated as cpu market share which is blatantly false.
And it will just keep rising from now on. I’m waiting for their new cpu to move from my i5 6600k from now and ever to AMD.
Stream survey shows numbers for gamers only and not the whole market…but going by those numbers and Nvidia also preparing to jump in the CPU market…we gamers will have some affordable and good CPUs in the future. Vise versa for GPUs with Intel preparing for the jump. Good times are coming for us pc gamers boys. I wonder what will happen to the consoles…
Consoles will do what they do best,holding pc games back.
If you don’t believe that AMD has come back fighting their way tooth and nail then you are asleep. 5 years ago they were considered near bankruptcy. They were losing hundreds of millions of dollars year after year even with all 3 console makers using their hardware. Some Financial Analysts had already dug their grave.
Their stock price fell to $1.60 per share and now it’s $81.60 per share. Most investors counted them near worthless back then but I didn’t. I was watching Lisa Su turning AMD around in a new direction. It took some time but now they are showing record profits year after year.
Damn sheep what’re you doing switching to that awful Windows 10?
With Zen 3 coming Intel is about to finally lose the single core advantage something they had since 2006.
I remember i used to debate people at the tomshardware FX forum who claimed it was impossible lol
This is what you get Intel, for being lazy for like 50000 years. I’m also going AMD for the first time ever.
I have two rigs, one for gaming (intel due to slight perf+ in the enthusiast tier) and one more of a workstation type (amd). Would be great to have one rig to rule them all 🙂
That not also reminds me that i gotta get the new AMD stuff, but also that i gotta rewatch some Lord of the rings ;p
Its well deserved, intel only have a small foothold left in the enthusiast gaming space and it’s slipping… Hope zen3 overtakes the 10900k in gaming (no matter what res) so peeps who want to upgrade wont have to choose between max perf but with legacy platform vs slightly lower perf but modern platform anymore.
AMD has officially taken over the CPU market…majority new CPU owners buying AMD. I am super excited to hopefully see AMD finally beat Intel in the Gaming domain with the 4th-gen Ryzen…and that will be final nail in the coffin. Now, Intel will have to come up with an all-new CPU arch to get outta the hole they dug for themselves.
BUT, its soo satisfying to watch Intel suffer! Not a AMD fanboy, but I started to hate Intel for their for arrogant bullish hold on the CPU market with no innovation and inflated pricing.
Did you mean GDDR7 VRAM? DDR5 System RAM won’t really make much of a difference in gaming but GDDR7 VRAM will. I plan to upgrade my rig then and take a 8 core 16 thread CPU along with a much faster GPU than my 2070 Super.
Maybe I’m just getting old but it seems that technology advances have increased considerably in the past few years. GPUs are incredibly fast these days. SLI/CrossFire is dead because of it. Even an entry level GPU has enough performance to max the settings on 1080p (the most popular resolution by far).
Keep in mind that Steam hardware survey also points out 768p (720p) as a 9.32 percentage of all used resolutions, that is because of older Intel gen laptops with UHDs/HDs or MX GPUs so a lot of Steam users are still gaming on their laptop APUs, hence why market share is seemingly low. Up until now AMD laptops offerings were mediocre, especially in the Ivy Bridge, Haswell, Skylake etc era.
Really nice! Thanks to the Ryzen 3000-serie!