In a nutshell: December’s Steam survey outcomes have arrived. The final month of the yr is all the time an fascinating one because it signifies in style Christmas items whereas additionally setting the stage for what’s forward. The obvious takeaway from December? 2024 actually was AMD’s yr – no less than when it got here to CPUs.
Beginning with the processors class, December noticed AMD attain one other record-high share amongst contributors of Valve’s survey. Staff Crimson customers had been up 3.02% final month, taking its whole to 38.7% as Intel fell barely to 63.4%.
The very fact virtually 40% of contributors (on Home windows) now use an AMD CPU is as a lot a testomony to the corporate’s success as it’s to Intel’s failures. It wasn’t that way back when AMD appeared destined by no means to develop its consumer share above 30%.
Zen 5 wasn’t precisely earth-shattering on its arrival, however nonetheless higher obtained than Intel’s Arrow Lake Core Extremely Collection 2 desktop CPUs. Then the Ryzen 7 9800X3D chip arrived, incomes the title of “The New Gaming CPU King” in our assessment and proving so in style it bought out in all places. The instability points in Intel’s Thirteenth- and 14th-generation processors have additionally impacted its gross sales of the older chips.
Shifting to the GPU part, the largest positive factors of the month had been principally shared between the RTX 40 sequence and 30 sequence xx60 and xx70 playing cards, with the RTX 4060 main the pack. Considerably surprisingly, the traditional GTX 1650 noticed the fourth-highest positive factors.
AMD’s best-performing desktop card of the month was the Radeon RX 6600 in twenty seventh place.
The RTX 3060 continues to be the preferred card amongst contributors. Mid-range Ampere and Lovelace GPUs make up virtually all the prime 11 spots, the one exceptions being the GTX 1650 in fourth and the GTX 2060 in tenth.
Elsewhere, Home windows 11 is now comfortably the preferred OS within the survey. It pulled forward one other 2% to an virtually 55% share in December as Home windows 10 dropped to 42.3%.
With the older Home windows model’s end-of-support date ten months away, count on this pattern to proceed. Nonetheless, it is a totally different story when taking a look at world customers: Home windows 10’s share has elevated two months in a row to 62.7% whereas Home windows 11 has declined to 34.1%.
Rounding up the remainder of the survey, 16GB of RAM stays the preferred quantity of system RAM but it surely’s lead is declining as second-place 32GB grows; a pattern that’s mirrored within the VRAM class.
Regardless of 1080p now principally being restricted to price range fashions or eSports displays with blistering refresh charges, greater than half (56.1%) the contributors use this decision. 1440p is the second hottest at 19.5%.
English noticed an enormous 9% leap within the languages class in December, cementing its place on the prime with a 42.1% share as second-place Chinese language fell barely to 29.9%. Lastly, most individuals nonetheless have greater than 1TB of drive house, however solely 100GB to 249GB free.
