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Conina on 02 July 2017
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JEMC said:
Captain_Yuri said:

Amd has struck gold in CPU with Ryzen as intel continues to fumble but now they need to find a way to do something with their GPU division. Although with the amount of bank Nvidia is making with it's entrance into Ai and cars as well it's dominance into GPUs, maybe that task is a bit too much for little old AMD. We shall see though.

http://wccftech.com/amd-takes-10-4-cpu-share-intel-q2-2017-largest-single-quarter-share-gain-history/

Taking back 10.4% of the market in just one quarter is... too good to be good? I mean, Ryzen CPUs are proving to be worth purchasing, but gaining so much ground is very, very surprising.

Vega... well, let's see how the consumer products fare before we judge them a failure (tho I've been saying that they would perform between a 1070 and a 1080 since they were first announced)

 

Well, PassMark’s "market share data" is based on benchmark submissions, and of course there will be a lot more benchmarking for a new CPU architecture (which gets a lot of optimization in the first months) than for an established CPU architecture with no big performance surprises.

So far the AMD gain in the Steam survey ain't that impressive:

But most gamers probably aren't that eager to replace their CPUs (plus mainboard plus RAM) as long as their old CPU/mainboard/RAM combination is still fast enough for 60 fps in most games with the right GPU. A graphic card is much easier to replace and delivers higher performance differences.

And thanks to the slow CPUs in consoles and the shift to higher resolutions most multiplatform games will have their focus on GPU performance while the needed CPU-power stagnates the next years.