In a nutshell: It's the start of a new calendar month, and that means an updated Steam Survey. November saw AMD continue its trend of slowly chipping abroad at Intel'southward processor pb. And while the number of people buying new graphics cards remains low, understandably, every one of the Ampere line experienced slight gains. It was likewise a very good month for Windows xi.

In the CPU category, AMD continued to increase its user share. The total number of scarlet processors in survey participants' computers rose to 31.53% terminal month, marking a jump of +0.69%, which coincidentally is the same increase we saw between September and October. AMD volition no uncertainty exist pleased, especially equally Alder Lake launched on November iv, but will the total impact of Intel'southward latest chips exist felt in December's results?

Moving onto GPUs, there was lilliputian change at the top of the chart as the GTX 1060 keeps the top spot information technology will have occupied for three years as of next month—the last number one menu was the GTX 750 Ti. However, the GTX 1650 is catching up thanks to a +0.16% increase.

Nov's survey was another excellent showing for Ampere. All of Nvidia'southward most recent cards saw their user shares increase—the RTX 3060 Laptop GPU was the month's pinnacle-performer with +0.41%—even the expensive and elusive RTX 3090 went upward slightly (+0.01%). It seems that despite their price and availability issues, people are yet managing to purchase the latest graphics cards.

Every bit for AMD, the Radeon RX 6700 XT (0.20%) remains the only RDNA two card with enough share to be included in the main chart. But the Vulkan Systems section shows both the Radeon RX 6900 XT and Radeon RX 6800 XT experiencing pocket-sized gains, so they could soon attain the required 0.15% to enter the GPU section, bold the reported price increase doesn't impact sales even more.

Elsewhere, Windows 10 experienced a large drop as over half-dozen% of participants moved to Windows xi. Microsoft's latest Os now has an eight.28% share, having entered the survey only final month with i.82%. The figures line upward with a study from Nov showing that effectually 5% of PC users were running Windows 11.