Steam and PC: China forced to capitulate AMD on both fronts
Steam and PC: China forced to capitulate AMD on both fronts Steam digital distribution service summed up the "zhelezyachnye" results of October, releasing another portion of statistics based on the collection of data on PC configurations of users who installed client software. The results of last month were unexpected for many of those who followed the updates to the charts at store.steampowered.com. We should start with the fact that the Steam-client in Chinese language just made a breakthrough from 29.5% to 56.4% of the audience just in a month. Explanations to this can be a lot - from a new method of processing data about PC configurations to conscious distortion of data by individual individuals. In any case, the October charts are worthy of looking at. In addition to the sudden growth of the Chinese Steam segment, in our top of the strangeness parade is the mass "outcome" of gamers from Windows 10 to Windows 7 and the overthrow of the most popular September video card GeForce GTX 1060 by a clique of conspirators in the person of GeForce GTX 960 and GeForce GTX 750 Ti. It's even strange that in the "Halloween" statistics there was no place higher for Windows XP and GeForce 8600 GT. Against the background of the above-described incidents, the sharp drop in the share of AMD in the graphics (from 17.1% to 10.8%) and processor (from 16.5% to 10.2%) segments looks somehow humdrum. The steep peak of the Radeon family could be predicted in advance - in the light of the transition of the initiative in the struggle for inexpensive video cards on AMD chips from gamers to the owners of crypto-currency wallets (sometimes in one person). But in the failure Ryzen in the battle for the hearts and wallets of the broad gamer masses, which signals the schedule of Intel-AMD, it is hard to believe. The number of processors with four physical cores is steadily growing, mainly due to dual-core CPUs, which are gradually disappearing from the stage amid such chipmaker offerings as Core i3-8100 for $ 117 and Ryzen 3 1200 for $ 109 (both quad-core). It's worth remembering that Steam takes into account the configurations of laptops, and they often rely on a bunch of four-core Intel Core i5 / i7 processor and a video adapter of the NVIDIA GeForce family. In the segment of virtual reality helmets a few months ago there was a tendency to increase the share of Oculus Rift due to HTC Vive and Rift kits for developers, and as we see, Vive's initiative was not yet able to intercept. If there are no official comments about October figures, we will be looking forward to Steam statistics in a month, which will either come back to the September data or confirm a new state of things.
Steam and PC: China forced to capitulate AMD on both fronts Steam digital distribution service summed up the "zhelezyachnye" results of October, releasing another portion of statistics based on the collection of data on PC configurations of users who installed client software. The results of last month were unexpected for many of those who followed the updates to the charts at store.steampowered.com. We should start with the fact that the Steam-client in Chinese language just made a breakthrough from 29.5% to 56.4% of the audience just in a month. Explanations to this can be a lot - from a new method of processing data about PC configurations to conscious distortion of data by individual individuals. In any case, the October charts are worthy of looking at. In addition to the sudden growth of the Chinese Steam segment, in our top of the strangeness parade is the mass "outcome" of gamers from Windows 10 to Windows 7 and the overthrow of the most popular September video card GeForce GTX 1060 by a clique of conspirators in the person of GeForce GTX 960 and GeForce GTX 750 Ti. It's even strange that in the "Halloween" statistics there was no place higher for Windows XP and GeForce 8600 GT. Against the background of the above-described incidents, the sharp drop in the share of AMD in the graphics (from 17.1% to 10.8%) and processor (from 16.5% to 10.2%) segments looks somehow humdrum. The steep peak of the Radeon family could be predicted in advance - in the light of the transition of the initiative in the struggle for inexpensive video cards on AMD chips from gamers to the owners of crypto-currency wallets (sometimes in one person). But in the failure Ryzen in the battle for the hearts and wallets of the broad gamer masses, which signals the schedule of Intel-AMD, it is hard to believe. The number of processors with four physical cores is steadily growing, mainly due to dual-core CPUs, which are gradually disappearing from the stage amid such chipmaker offerings as Core i3-8100 for $ 117 and Ryzen 3 1200 for $ 109 (both quad-core). It's worth remembering that Steam takes into account the configurations of laptops, and they often rely on a bunch of four-core Intel Core i5 / i7 processor and a video adapter of the NVIDIA GeForce family. In the segment of virtual reality helmets a few months ago there was a tendency to increase the share of Oculus Rift due to HTC Vive and Rift kits for developers, and as we see, Vive's initiative was not yet able to intercept. If there are no official comments about October figures, we will be looking forward to Steam statistics in a month, which will either come back to the September data or confirm a new state of things.