Windows 11 is more popular with gamers, but theres bad news for Intel in
Steam survey

Date:
Tue, 08 Feb 2022 14:00:36 +0000

Description:
Intel has failed to maintain the momentum it gained last month, but
Microsofts OS is going up in the world.

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Windows 11 is gaining some decent momentum with gamers, at least going by
the latest stats from Steam, although Intel has slipped slightly compared to last months Steam survey.

The hardware and software survey for January 2022 showed that Windows 11 is now used in 13.56% of the gaming rigs evaluated for this report, which is up quite strongly on Decembers figure of 10.15%.

Thats good news for Microsoft, of course, but the survey produced somewhat disappointing results for Intel on the hardware front.

In Decembers stats, Intel actually witnessed an increase in its processor market share among Steam gamers to the tune of 0.82%, with Team Blue securing 69.27% in total.

That looked significant given how dominant rival AMD Ryzen processors have been in recent times, stealing a lot of turf from Intel in the desktop PC world but the upward movement has ebbed for Team Blue, as it dropped
slightly to 69.02% in January 2022, albeit that only represents the loss of a quarter of a percentage point. Analysis: Nothing too worrying for Intel, and serious momentum building for Microsoft

With the Intel figures, while the chip giant might be slightly disappointed that growth hasnt continued and that new Alder Lake CPUs arent sparking a continued upswing its not a huge surprise.

This is only a very slight loss for Intel, after all, and in recent times,
the figures for Team Blue have been rather up and down anyway (even before Alder Lake came out, we saw some decent upticks with Rocket Lake). Really, this is a pretty minimal downward dip, and could be put down to the typical margin of error that Valves survey is doubtless working with.

Windows 11s progress is a more clearly defined growth spurt, and with an increase of 3.41% for January 2022, thats almost double the gain Windows 11 witnessed from November to December (1.87%).

In short, theres a clear suggestion that more and more gamers are making the move to Microsofts newest OS, despite the early bugs which weve written multiple reports about (mind you, some of these are now fixed up , and its
not like Windows 10 doesnt have bugs either). Check out our guide to Windows 11 problems and how to fix them



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