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English => News => Topic started by: Redaktion on May 10, 2021, 12:02:37

Title: AMD closes in on 30% overall PC processor usage share in new Steam hardware survey as Intel preps Alder Lake for fresh assault on Ryzen adulation
Post by: Redaktion on May 10, 2021, 12:02:37
AMD is a whisker away from claiming 30% of the PC processor usage share in Steam's hardware and software survey. The latest information from the popular game platform has AMD with 29.54% share and Intel on 70.46%. However, Alder Lake could be on course to take some of the shine off Ryzen's critical acclaim.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-closes-in-on-30-overall-PC-processor-usage-share-in-new-Steam-hardware-survey-as-Intel-preps-Alder-Lake-for-fresh-assault-on-Ryzen-adulation.538567.0.html
Title: Re: AMD closes in on 30% overall PC processor usage share in new Steam hardware survey as Intel prep
Post by: Anonymousgg on May 10, 2021, 14:51:29
I wonder how much weaker the more common Alder Lake + DDR4 combo will be...
Title: Re: AMD closes in on 30% overall PC processor usage share in new Steam hardware survey as Intel prep
Post by: Spunjji on May 11, 2021, 13:20:42
Quote from: Anonymousgg on May 10, 2021, 14:51:29
I wonder how much weaker the more common Alder Lake + DDR4 combo will be...

For desktop performance? Probably not at all, in the vast majority of desktop workloads. It's rare that they're bottlenecked primarily by memory bandwidth. Early DDR5 may even see some regressions in latency-sensitive workloads compared to well-configured DDR4.