lynx29 I mean Steam isn't God... there is an entire younger generation of 10-20 million + who only install Epic Games Launcher for Fortnite... why aren't we counting their systems?

jabbadap Their market share for sold AIB cards are dropping quite fast since Q2 2018. Last quarter was actually all time low for Radeons:

With the CPU, my thinking the change is less related to folks thinking .... "oh I need a 6 or 8 core processor" but if they continue their customary build practices. ... I don't see anyone going thru a thought process of ... "Umm... I need a 6 core CPU, after all my research and investigation, it looks like the 9600k will serve me well in this category.". It's more like, "I;m upgrading nmy i5 system and just looked at the performance tables of the 9600k and based upon it's performance in all the things I need it to do relative to other choices, have determined it's the best for me."I would like to point out that there is much more info to be gaied by looking past overall market share. There's more to be gained from the Steam Hardware survey ... for example.....a) Yes AMDs market share in the CPU gaming market is18.1 % but that's up from 17.6%. Sounds like good news no ? Well not really, the month before that it was 18.1% so they recovered from a downward blip. So no real movement here.b) Yes AMDs market share in the CPU gaming market is 14.9 % but that's up from 14.7% last time. Again, sounds like good news no ? Well not really, the month before that it was14.9% so they just recovered from a downward blip. The 3 previous numbers were 15,3, 15,1 and 15.2 %. Potentiually a sign of recovery not enough data to see a trend.c) The most popular card is the GTX 1060 with 15.58% market share ... more than all AMD cards combined. Ouchd) The most popular AMD GFX card (11th place) is the RX 580 with 1.10%, the 2nd most popular is the 480 (23rd place) w/ 0.61%e) Intel has 3 GFX solutions in the top 20, AMD has 1.f) nVidias low priced cards (960, 1050, 1050 Ti, 1060) are losing market share, higher priced cards are gaining (970, 1070, 1080, 1070 Ti, 2060g) With it's 1st appearance on the charts, the 2060 sales to date (0.27%) already exceed Vega 56 and 64 combined (0.22%) which had a 17 month head start ... the 2070 is at 0.65% (3 times Vega combined) ...the 2080 has more than twice as much (0.50%) the ridiculously priced 2080 Ti also has more with 0.26%. In nVidia's line, sales for everything from the 1070 to the 2080 Ti are up this month....h) What's trending w/ greater than + 0.05% month to month ? (Card - increase in market share)RTX 2060 - 0.27% (with a bullet !)GTX 1070 - 0.18%RTX 2070 - 0.15%GT 440 - 0.15%RTX 2080 - 0.10%GTX 1070 Ti - 0.09%GTX 1080 Ti - 0.08%GTX 1080 - 0.07%RTX 2080 Ti - 0.05%RX 580 - 0.16%RX 570 - 0.06%Intel UHD Graphics 620 - 0.06%Why do i think this info is of note ? I like to look at what's happening with respect to users asking not only "what to build" but when. From what I see above ...a) I don't see any nVidia price drops in near future for the 2060 on up other than perhaps the 2080.... so no reason to postpone if budget is there.b) I expect Vega 56 / 64 to continue to drop.... if that's on your build list, wait.c) Expect 580 to drop to 150 - $165 as the 25% performance advantage of the 1660 will continue to erode 580 salesd) Expect nVida to lag behind AMD price drops on the 580 / 590 with subsequent 1660 / 1660 Ti price cutsI would assume because when one does a web search on "Epic Games Hardware Survey" it doesn't produce any links to examine. Tho I read that they do send out hardware surveys, I don't think we'll have the data available any time soon ... at least not until they get past the steam file copying broohaha.Here's Steam Data for last 12 months ending in march 2019... Y2T, Intel is up 0.2%, AMD is down 0.3% and nVidia is up 0.1%Intel 10.0 10.4 10.9 9.8 10.8 10.2 9.3 10.5 10.6 10.6 10.1 10.2AMD 15.2 15.4 15.5 14.1 15.0 14.6 13.9 15.2 15.1 15.3 14.7 14.9nVidia 74.7 74.1 73.5 76.0 74.0 75.0 76.6 74.1 74.2 74.0 75.0 74.8