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Captain_Yuri said:

Intel erased all the market share gains AMD CPUs made this year

https://www.pcgamer.com/intel-erased-all-the-market-share-gains-amd-cpus-made-this-year/

Now there's obviously a few *** as Steam hardware surveys aren't a reliable source. And obviously the fact that AMD CPUs have been largely out of stock while only recently being available the purchase. But the main thing of course is that this year, AMD doesn't have anything value oriented for budget buyers like Intel does. Their cheapest CPU for DIY starts at $300 and in a couple months, $260 with the 5600G, Eventually their quad core parts will come out but until then, Intel will dominate the low end SKUs, especially with the 11400 starting at $182. Regardless, I don't think AMD should be worried as selling every CPU they have available is not a bad thing.

I saw that article and could only shake my head at the sloppiness of their research.

Just have a look at the OS and you'll see that Windows 7 jumped from 2% to 5% of all computers. That already should tell you that the reason is that again some old-ish cybercafé computers or the like are counted multiple times equipped with GTX 1060 and RTX 2060 (who both jumped up by almost 1% to record heights for this year).

It's not nearly as big as some jumps in the past, but the jump from the old OS shows clearly that the change is not organic.