Another 1 percentage point gained by Turing in September: from 21% to 22%.

RTX from 10.9% to 11.4%, Navi from 1.13% to 1.23%, VR headsets from 1.70% to 1.88%.

Almost 30% of the Steam PCs are now faster than an Xbox One X, 11.42% are already raytracing compatible.

It's been a while since I said it so here it comes: thanks for doing all this work, Conina.

It will be interesting to seethe effect of Ampere on the charts but, with all the availability problems the 3080 has had, and the fact that Nvidia's best selling cards are usually the xx60 and xx70 parts, I doubt we'll see much change in the carts for a while.

And then it will be time to Big Navi, but I fear that even if it delivers the promised performance, it will do little to help AMD gain some of the lost ground.

Think you're a bit off with your RX Navi percentage since you probably missed that the RX 5500 and RX 5600 finally appeared in the Steam survey, grabbing together some 0.34% of the hardware. So RX Navi should be at 1.57% and AMD HD+R7+R9+RX at 10.94% with those two included.

You are right. I fixed it:

Booooring month.

And with the paper launches of Ampere GPUs (and probably also paper launches of RDNA2 GPUs) next month probably won't be more interesting.

I wonder what happened on the CPU side, especially under Linux.

AMD was winning market share quickly over the last couple months, both under Windows and under Linux. But this months, the Windows numbers were almost unchanged while under Linux, AMD lost over 1.5% market share in just one month.

Considering that both NVidia's RTX cards and AMD's Navi cards also dropped down a notch, my guess is that more older PCs got counted this time around and less newer ones.

It will take some time to see the impact of both the new cards, specially with the low availability.

CPU wise (thanks for including the data as well, by the way), it's possible that many enthusiasts have opted to wait until knowing more about AMD's 5000 series, and will wait until its launch to upgrade their systems. And there's also the chance of surveying older machines or more cybercafes.

Yeah, the colder it gets the more "casual pc gamers" with older systems will join the party.

So RTX 3080 gave its debut in the Steam Stats... and also RTX 2070 Max-Q?

Concurrent user peak is going for 24 million again... will we see 25 million until the end of the year?

https://steamdb.info/app/753/graphs/

Why few? It's the most popular AMD GPU on Steam.