Monthly Steam hardware survey analysis

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Conina said:

Okay, in the last days of January they fixed the December data a bit. And the January data seems to be back on track according to trends of the former months.

I'm happy to see that both Polaris and Navi seem to sell quite well:

• RX Polaris reached 5.3%, R7+R9 together never reached 3.5%
• Navi 5700/XL almost reached 3x of the Vega56/64 share already.

7.35% of the Steam systems are raytracing compatible... with Ampere + Big Navi RDNA2 that share could double to the end of the year. Add ~15 million raytracing compatible consoles until the end of this year, that seems to be a good hardware base for developers.

Unreal engine 4 and Unity already support it and other popular engines will follow this year. 

Even bigger is the change on the CPU side, as AMD jumped up by almost 2% from 19.38% to 21.36% under Windows (25.18% to 27.11% under Linux), so pretty much a 10% change in just one month. Looks like AMD has finally... Ryzen.

One point in your Data seems wrong though: I checked the  GPU numbers, and AMD RX Vega shows up there with 0.68%, a plus of 0.10% compared to the previous month. Is your data wrong or am I mixing up the APUs with the GPUs here?