Well, there goes AMD CPU share dropping again. Guessing there were more sales on AMD systems in December and now it's going back to the downward trend.
Again nice drops in all 32 bit OSes and nice upticks for all 64 bit OSes almost 2% increase for Win7 64 bit and Vista 64 bit. Very cool.
And yes, nice to see the breakdown of the AMD "series" groups. And unfortunate we don't see a breakdown as mentioned of the past Nvidia "series" groups, but it's doubtful we'll ever see that for GT/GTS/GTX/TI/WHATEVER suffixes. Shouldn't be a problem going forward though. Well except with Nvidia doing a GTX 560 and GTX 560 TI? Hopefully those don't get grouped together, but they probably will.
Breaking down the AMD GPUs makes the GTX 460 look at a lot better in the DX11 only chart. Although again we have a combining of products 460/768 and 460/1G. Would be interesting to see a breakdown of those, but doubt Steam has a way to do it.
Nice first month showing for GTX 570. Better than the 69xx's although the GTX 570 did have approximately one more week's worth of sales.
System RAM slowly shifting to 4+ GB.
1 GB video RAM surpassed 512 MB video RAM.
Interesting almost 5% (at least as 24.2% is "other") of multi-monitor setups are a 2x2 configuration. I'm guessing many of those might be Mac production systems (5120x2880 would be a 2x2 of 2560x1440 which I think only Apple makes a monitor at that resolution).
I'm surprised to see more Russian users than German users considering how much Germans love PC gaming. Although I suppose respective population size of the countries might have something to do with that.
I wonder if the Chinese numbers are just for Taiwan or for Taiwan + China. If just for Taiwan that would be pretty impressive as that would put them (23 million pop) ahead of Japan (127 million pop) and Korea (48.2 million pop). Especially impressive versus Korea which has a reputation for universal fast broadband and an almost unquenchable appetite for MMOs and PC games (especially Starcraft). Of course with Blizzard being the most popular and not being on Steam, that might have something to do with it.
If it's for China + Taiwan, however, that's really unimpressive, and probably due to the Chinese preferring pirated software (street shops and whatever on burned DVDs or internet).
Heck, Japan ahead of Korea somewhat surprises me.
Regards,
SB