AMD hits record CPU share as new top GPU and OS emerge on Steam survey

In brief: Valve has just posted the results of March's Steam survey, and, as predicted, things have returned to normal after the weirdness we saw during the previous month. This means there's a new top GPU, operating system, and language, while AMD's CPU share has reached a record high. February was one of those months where the Steam survey changed drastically. One of the biggest changes was a new most-popular graphics card, as the RTX 4060 replaced the RTX 3060. These sorts of anomalies can occur for several reasons, including sampling bias, reporting bugs, and hardware driver updates. There's also the problem of shared machines at internet cafes in China inflating hardware specs. But the issue is often down to Valve's algorithms and data processing methods, which can directly impact the survey results, especially when they make back-end changes or adjust how they categorize, interpret, or weight the incoming data. But, as we saw after the last survey shake-up in October 2023, th ... Read full article.