NVIDIA RTX 3060 & 4060 Sales Surged in December; AMD CPU Share Hits 47% on Steam | Hardware Times

The holiday season (December) saw incredible movement on Steam’s GPU user database. Interestingly, the GeForce RTX 3060 and 4060 were the most adopted SKUs among Steam’s Windows gamers. Considering that both graphics cards have been discontinued, we’re likely looking at used purchases or pre-built PCs.

The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, RTX 4060 Ti, RTX 3080, and RTX 2060 gained ~1% market share each in December. Recent RTX 70-class GPUs, including the RTX 4070, RTX 4070 Super, RTX 5070, and RTX 5070 Ti, also yielded <0.75% share through the holidays.

The GeForce RTX 5070 now accounts for 3.05% of all Steam users, just behind the RTX 3070 (3.57%) but ahead of the RTX 4070 (3.01%) and RTX 4070 Super (2.53%). Despite offering near-identical performance, the RTX 5070 has sold considerably more units than its predecessors through the first half of its cycle.

Gaming CPU Market Share: AMD Crosses 47%

AMD’s CPU market share among Steam Windows users has crossed 47%, nearly attaining a clean 50-50 split with Intel. AMD gained 4.66% market share as Intel dropped to 55.47%.

AMD remains the dominant vendor among Linux users with a market share of 71.93%, up from 66.72% in November. In contrast, Intel accounts for 31.59% of Linux users on Steam.