The blue team had been dominated by AMD for over a year now and in every month’s Steam Hardware Survey we would see AMD gaining more and more market share to close the gap to 70:30. However, since then Intel has launched its 12th Gen Alder Lake CPUs to the market which has indeed changed the entire landscape of the consumer CPU space.

Steam Hardware Survey shows Intel is bouncing back

With lowering CPU prices of these Intel chips and their motherboards we are seeing gamers flocking back to Intel after ages. Well, it’s not only because of superior gaming performance but also for the strong multi-core threaded performance now Intel promises as well as delivers.

Intel gaining CPU market share thanks to 12th Gen: Steam Hardware Survey

As you see in the Steam Hardware & Software Survey March 2022, you will see Intel has gained a good amount of market share and AMD is trying to keep up with Intel.

In Windows, Intel has gained a 0.26% market share in March 2022 while AMD lost the same amount which goes to show how much the Blue team’s latest CPU is outselling AMD in recent days. Also, people are opting for great Intel CPUs like Core i7-12700KF or the flagship Core i9-12900K and even the budget Core i5-12600K processor is offering great value to its customers.

Not only this, Intel’s entry level Core i3s are also very popular among gamers and that is the reason why Intel is gaining market share in Steam’s latest Hardware Survey. Although AMD has launched new Ryzen 5 5600, 5500 and others to counter but the main competition now is eyed towards AMD’s Ryzen 7000 series processors which Intel will also counter with 13th Gen Raptor Lake.

As you see in the Linux vendor share, AMD is continuously gaining more share and thanks to its high demand for Threadripper or workstation processors, Linux users or servers are using more AMD processors than ever.