Steam statistics on the graphics cards and processors most used in the platform, obviate the complicated moment for AMD and the urgency of releasing products that allow to gain market share against NVIDIA and Intel.

Currently Valve's Steam is the most important platform in the world and on the market, with thousands of players every day. Steam not only offers games, it has long offered multiple tools, such as video editing software, benchmark utilities and many other solutions. In addition, it is an interesting and useful measurement system to know which games are succeeding, which are the titles of the moment, there is a large community and it also serves to see which hardware is the most used in the platform as well as the operating system and other elements and We are going to stay with the graphics card market, specifically we want to know how much market NVIDIA and AMD have.

Well, analyzing the Steam gamer market, we can see that more than 64% of gamers use NVIDIA graphics, 21.5% use AMD graphics cards and we have been surprised by the low margin between AMD and Intel, since 15.65% of the market graphic is from Intel and the iGPUs that are integrated into the processors. This data is very interesting, but it has a clear explanation. AMD unfortunately, at the moment does not have high-end solutions that compete with NVIDIA and because of that niche many players escape, in what the AMD RX Vega arrives or not.

On the other hand, we have that AMD has not released an APU for almost two years, therefore it is another market niche with respect to Intel, in this case, it eludes it, indeed, it would also help to cut distances with NVIDIA. We are waiting for the arrival of the Raven Ridge APUs, which as we know will have Ryzen cores and Vega GPUs, something that may allow many users to opt for these APUs, if they offer good performance, especially for casual gamers, which is an important part of the Steam audience, above all, because it bets a lot on Indie titles.

We wanted to see which are the most used graphics currently and the GTX 5 Ti stands out in the Top 750, which leads the ranking, the GTX 970 and the GTX 1060, followed by the GTX 960 (I have this one) and the GTX 1070. We see which are graphs of two fairly recent generations. We have to go very low to find the first AMD graphic, specifically the HD 7700, a graphic that is already a few years old. Reviewing this first section we only see a graphics with a laptop name, such as the NVIDIA GT 720M and the GTX 1080 stands out, which has been gaining market share for five months and being ahead of the AMD graphics.

We have made the cut in the first AMD chart that is in the Steam database as the most used. We wanted to go further and look for more graphics, specifically the RX 480, since the RX 580 has only recently hit the market and there is no stock due to mining. We see that it is very, very low, it even has integrated Intel graphics on top, something quite curious. But as we have mentioned, NVIDIA has had a lot of free way in the mid and high range and AMD has brought two versions of Polaris that are not enough to compete with NVIDIA. Adding up the factors in which Vega never finishes reaching the market and the lack of new APUs, which would give AMD air.

We cannot ignore another data and it is the gamer market share in Steam, but in the processor part. We see that Intel has 80.22% market share, while AMD has 19.78%. If we look at the graph, we see how Intel in recent times has steadily gained market share, which denotes the bad times that AMD has lived until the arrival of Ryzen. It is possible that with the arrival of the Ryzen 3 and the Raven Ridge APUs, AMD will be able to overcome and cut market share from Intel, although it is difficult to say by what percentages. By the way, what a bad grape the e Valve to put AMD with the green color in the processor graphics.