Valve’s latest Steam Hardware Survey data for November 2025 shows that AMD’s share of the gaming CPU market is continuing to grow rapidly. Currently, AMD's share has reached 43.56%, an increase of 0.52% from the previous month, continuing its strong upward momentum since it broke through the 40% mark for the first time in August.
If this trend continues, AMD is expected to account for more than 50% of the Steam user CPU market at some point in 2026, thus ending Intel's long-term dominance.
This survey reflects profound changes in the industry landscape. Looking back in 2022, Intel dominated the Steam user platform with a market share of up to 77%. However, in the past three years, the situation has fundamentally reversed, and Intel's share has fallen to 56.44%. The Steam Hardware Survey data is intended to be representative of all Steam users, which means it includes both old and new gaming PCs. The rapid increase in AMD's share shows that a large number of players are replacing old Intel platforms with new AMD-based systems. This directly points to a conclusion: most of the newly installed gaming PCs currently choose AMD processors.
Currently, the root cause of Intel's challenges in the PC gaming market is that the market response to its Arrow Lake series CPUs has not met expectations. The performance of this series of products is often even inferior to its previous generation Raptor Lake processors, resulting in players lacking motivation to upgrade. On the other hand, AMD has provided significant performance improvements with products such as Ryzen 7 9800X3D, at least establishing its performance leadership position in the gaming market.
Intel's current high share on Steam relies largely on its large existing user base. Not all PC players upgrade their hardware frequently, which is why Steam's hardware market share is typically slow to change. However, if current trends hold true, the market share balance will continue to tilt as more older Intel-based PCs are phased out and replaced by newer AMD systems. If Intel fails to regain its foothold in the PC gaming market, AMD will be ready to take over its crown as "Steam's most used CPU provider."