Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) stock soared on Friday after the company made major gains in Steam’s December 2025 hardware and software survey. The data from this survey showed a 4.66% month-over-month increase in users with AMD processors. This boosted AMD’s share on the platform to 47.27% from 42.61%.
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AMD’s December gains are a major stride in its battle against Intel (INTC) in the CPU market. The company is closing in on Intel’s 55.47% lead on Steam. Investors will also note that Intel’s CPU share on Steam fell 1.83% month-to-month from 57.30%. Microsoft’s (MSFT) XTA processors were also on the list, but only made up 0.06% of Steam users and dropped 0.03% month-over-month.
AMD also captured 18.53% of the graphics processing unit (GPU) share on Steam during December. While still well below the 73.82% share that Nvidia holds, it’s a slight improvement from the 18.05% share AMD had in November 2025. During that same month, Nvidia’s share of the GPU market on Steam was slightly higher at 73.83%. Intel GPUs made up 7.81% of the market share in December, compared to 7.74% the month prior.
AMD Stock Movement Today
AMD stock was up 4.09% on Friday, extending a 70.82% gain over the past 12 months. The semiconductor company has largely gained due to the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, which has increased demand for its server components. Even so, there’s no discounting the importance of its consumer components offerings.
Is AMD Stock a Buy, Sell, or Hold?
Turning to Wall Street, the analysts’ consensus rating for AMD is Strong Buy, based on 29 Buy and nine Hold ratings over the past three months. With that comes an average AMD stock price target of $282.33, representing a potential 26.53% upside for the shares.
