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Funny because AMD probably has the lowest share of the three if we include all PCs including office ones (and we should since the website says "any PC")

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Actually, we have very relevant data in https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

> PC VIDEO CARD USAGE BY MFG during FEBRUARY 2022 - JULY 2023

> 15.93% AMD

> 74.69% Nvidia

And that's only for people who run Steam, who are likely to have high-end cards. This is, it does not include PCs for office workloads or most laptops. Intel is at 9% right now in that Steam survey so the real number is much, much higher than AMD (and perhaps nvidia too). This makes AMD the third one in user share.

If we're counting integrated graphics in this, then AMD probably ain't anywhere close to being in 3rd. Between AMD and Intel, AMD's at around 35-40% of the CPU market (per https://www.statista.com/statistics/735904/worldwide-x86-int...), and most of those are probably going to be APUs or otherwise have an integrated GPU.

I can't find any solid numbers on the percentage of PCs with dedicated GPUs, but I'd be very surprised if it was anywhere near that figure.

> Funny because AMD probably has the lowest share of the three if we include all PCs including office ones (and we should since the website says "any PC").

Steam says that users in Linux have a overwhelming majority of AMD and Intel GPUs [1]:

- number 1 GPU is AMD VANGOGH Steam Deck APU with 42.05% by itself;

- top 10 Nvidia GPUs have only 9.54%;

- top 10 "not Steam Deck APU, not Nvidia" GPUs are 26.64% of the market, so almost outnumber them 2.8-to-1;

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/?platform=linux

I have 7 PCs in my house and (technically) none of them have AMD GPUs. I've only ever loaded steam on one of them:

1 nvidia discrete GPU

1 ATI discrete GPU (it almost certainly isn't supported as it's too old to work with the open-source AMD drivers)

5 different intel iGPUs (1 NUC, one mITX, and 3 laptops, because WTF do I need a discrete GPU in a laptop for).

I wonder what these 7 PCs have in common that none of them would have AMD GPUs?

- 5 of them have no need for discrete graphics; of those 3 are laptops, which (for many years) were basically going to be intel CPUs unless you go out of your way to buy AMD. One other is a NUC (I wanted the Pulse8 CEC module which is available internally only for NUCs), and the last one is used largely as a server; the only low-power mITX board I could find that supported ECC was a Xeon-D.

- One was built before AMD sold GPUs.

- One was built in a time in which AMD GPUs ran much hotter than Nvidia GPUs at the same performance level, so I would have only bought one if I was more price sensitive.

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