Why would anyone care about what craptop GPUs are in the list? It's not like most people with craptops actually
choose what GPU that a craptop comes with, nor can they ever change it. Thus, I think that it's the desktop discrete cards that are most applicable to tech enthusiasts, not the craptop IGPs. Hell, I don't even think that desktop IGPs should be considered relevant.
There has been talk about nVidia recently being deceptive with their part numbers because of the RTX 4080 12GB being renamed the RTX 4070 Ti but this isn't new. For nVidia, this is a
tradition that dates back quite some time. The RTX 3080 12GB had a more potent GPU than the 10GB model (with a HUGE price increase) while the RTX 3060 8GB model is significantly slower than the 12GB model (with NO price decrease). As we can see here though, nVidia offered the GTX 1060 with either the GP104 or the slower GP106 GPU with 7.2 billion and 4.4 billion transistors respectively.
So, how does the GTX 1060 get surpassed by a significantly slower card almost five years after the GTX 1060 dominated the charts? I can think of a couple of ways:
1) The GTX 1650 was a favourite among OEMs for their "gaming" PCs.
2) People are so ignorant that they don't bother looking at performance numbers and just buy the cheapest green gaming card that they can find.
Clearly, the truth that the overwhelming majority of gamers game at 1080p60fps cannot be denied here. People are gaming on Steam with a card that can
barely do 1080p60fps in most titles but they're still using them without a problem. The continuing popularity of the GTX 1060 and GTX 1650 only serve to prove that most gamers, even the majority of gamers with nVidia cards, don't give a rat's posterior about ray-tracing or DLSS because GTX cards don't have these. We're also talking about a card that gets just destroyed by the (admittedly laughable) RX 6500 XT with a gigantic 33% performance delta! Not even the RX 6500 XT's loss of performance from using PCI-E 3.0 or older can rectify that. I really have to assume that Dell and/or HP have been putting this joke of a video card in their "home gaming PCs" for noobs.
I think that the Steam survey is intentionally skewed towards Intel and AMD anyway because I have repeatedly tried to get the stupid thing to run on my PC over the past 8 years or so and have NEVER been successful. It installs fine, it loads fine, it says that it's "scanning my PC" (and all of my PC's info pops up on the screen) but then when it says that it's sending the data to Valve, it hangs. This has been a problem over 5 different CPUs (FX-8350, R7-1700, R5-3600X, R7-5700X, R7-5800X3D), 4 different video cards (HD 7970, R9 Fury, RX 5700 XT, RX 6800 XT), three different motherboards (Gigabyte 990FX, ASRock X370, ASRock X570) and two versions of Windows (7 and 10). I've been using PCs since MS-DOS and there's no way that there's a problem with ALL of my Windows-based operating systems. It's like Steam detects an all-AMD build and just stops.
Mine is not an isolated experience as many people have said the same thing. It's even a known issue in the Steam community and Steam has never even bothered to address it no matter how many people have said that it doesn't work. These are the symptoms that I've experienced on every occasion that I've tried to take the hardware survey:
Github shows that it's a problem for Linux, Windows 11 as well and dates back to 2018.
I have tried repeatedly to get Steam to address my issue but they don't even respond. This makes me wonder if the Steam survey results are some kind of propaganda because one would think that they'd have a fix for it after all these years. The fact that they just ignore it sure seems suspicious as if the survey is "Working as intended" which would explain Valve's attitude toward it. As long as it doesn't work on my PC, I have to question the validity because I'm not the only one. How many other AMD CPUs and Radeon video cards are being used that don't show up in the survey list for this reason and make people think that nVidia and Intel have far more market share than they actually do?
BTW, iIf anyone knows a fix for this, I would be grateful if you could share it with me because I've never been able to find anything.
