ChipBoundary
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First, Steam isn't a reflection of the market. Steam has approximately 132 million active users, while there are approximately 1.86 billion PC gamers. Steam has roughly 7% of the market, and I will personally NEVER touch Steam. Literally anything is better than steam.NVIDIA xx60 class performance isn't wanted?
Please explain to me how 6 of the top 7 cards in the steam survey are Nvidia xx60 cards?
Im not saying everyone wants that level of performance but that's where good enough performance for 1080p (the most commonly used resolution) starts and what people can afford.
It's also where AMD had the most success with cards like the RX580 and RX6600.
What the majority of people want is a $200 card that runs any 1080p game you want at a decent framerate. Although 2560x1440 will be the new minimum at some point. (It's increased in popularity and had become very affordable)
What people don't want is performance below that like NVIDIAs RTX 3050 or AMDs RX 6500. Not only do they not properly do 1080p their price to performance ratio is also worse.
High end cards aren't unwanted, their price is. People just want affordable 1080p gaming and for a long time that has been $150-$250 cards in $600-1000 rigs that's what we're used to and want. Sadly the pandemic shortage plus mining bubble got rid of that segment.
Also, side note, it isn't 4060 performance. It gets similar frame rates in some games, but it is EXTREMELY unstable. It's got worse software and drivers than AMD and that's just astoundingly bad.