June's Steam hardware survey: GTX 1060 still king, mixed reality headsets more popular

[midian182]

What just happened? The Steam hardware survey for June has arrived, giving us an idea of what components and peripherals make up many PC gamers’ rigs. Last month was an interesting one in the headset category, with Windows Mixed Reality devices hitting their highest market share to date. As for GPUs, Nvidia’s GTX 1060 remains participants’ most popular card—a title it has held since knocking the GTX 750 Ti off the top spot in December.

When it comes to virtual reality adoption among Steam users, the Oculus Rift (47.77 percent, including the developer kits) remains just ahead of the HTC Vive (44.56 percent), which is a slight larger gap than the previous month. But the bigger story relates to Microsoft’s Windows Mixed Reality headsets.

The devices, which are developed in partnership with companies such as Dell, Asus, Lenovo, and HP, have been slowly increasing their SteamVR market share since April, and now stand at 6.25 percent, their highest yet. With the price of some headsets starting to drop, expect to see their popularity continue to rise.

When it comes to graphics cards, the GTX 1060 retains the number one position. 12.74 percent of those surveyed use the GPU, while the GTX 1050 Ti sits in second place with 8.51 percent. As usual, Nvidia dominates this category, with 74.32 percent of products coming from the company. AMD has just 15.08 percent of cards on the list, the highest being its R7 series in 19^th position. Intel, meanwhile, has 10.44 percent.

Windows 10 64-bit remains the most popular OS. Up until March, this honor went to Windows 7 64-bit, likely due to PUBG’s popularity in China and the number of people who use the older system in that country. Now, however, the newer version of Windows is on almost 60 percent of participants’ drives, nearly twice as many as Windows 7 64-bit. The waning popularity of PUBG among Chinese players may also be why English is once again the most popular language— for several months, it was Simplified Chinese.

As always, the survey isn’t 100 percent accurate as participation is optional, but it does give an indication of what the PC hardware landscape looks like.

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[loki1944]

All the VR headsets combined don't even equal 1% of steam users. All headsets combined= 0.70%, not 7.0%, not 70.0%. So pretty anemic for how long they have been out.

 

[pawel04]

Genuine question, not looking to fire up the fan boys, but isnt the rx580 8gb a better buy than the gtx1060 especially in DX12 games?

 

[Puiu]

Genuine question, not looking to fire up the fan boys, but isnt the rx580 8gb a better buy than the gtx1060 especially in DX12 games?

It depends on the games. Most are better or equal, but not all games have proper DX12 implementations, just a wrapper around the DX11 code. Big game engines (ex: UE4) have only recently begun implementing good DX12/Vulkan optimisations so it will be another year or 2 until we'll see more games using the new APIs in a way that benefits the end user.

In general just buy which one is cheaper in your region. If the prices are similar then look at which type of monitor you have (or want to buy): Gsync capable or Freesync capable. After that look at what games you have or want to buy and check some benchmarks.

 

[pawel04]

It depends on the games. Most are better or equal, but not all games have proper DX12 implementations, just a wrapper around the DX11 code. Big game engines (ex: UE4) have only recently begun implementing good DX12/Vulkan optimisations so it will be another year or 2 until we'll see more games using the new APIs in a way that benefits the end user.

In general just buy which one is cheaper in your region. If the prices are similar then look at which type of monitor you have (or want to buy): Gsync capable or Freesync capable. After that look at what games you have or want to buy and check some benchmarks.

Thanks for the reply. Yer as you say, I've looked at reviews/games that I want to play, prices etc hence my conclusion that the RX580 is a better buy, at least in my opinion. With such an overwhelming majority using the 1060 I thought I was missing something..

Yer regarding what you say about future development of DX12, I'm someone that likes to keep hardware for at least a couple years before I switch (still on a 2500k and HD7950 haha). So with the advantage the 580 has in DX12, for me its a no brainer over the 1060, especially considering theyre +/- 30 euro on price..

 

[Puiu]

Thanks for the reply. Yer as you say, I've looked at reviews/games that I want to play, prices etc hence my conclusion that the RX580 is a better buy, at least in my opinion. With such an overwhelming majority using the 1060 I thought I was missing something..

Yer regarding what you say about future development of DX12, I'm someone that likes to keep hardware for at least a couple years before I switch (still on a 2500k and HD7950 haha). So with the advantage the 580 has in DX12, for me its a no brainer over the 1060, especially considering theyre +/- 30 euro on price..

In that case go for it. You'll also be saving money with a freesync monitor which you can put into something else

 

[BigBoomBoom]

It depends on the games. Most are better or equal, but not all games have proper DX12 implementations, just a wrapper around the DX11 code. Big game engines (ex: UE4) have only recently begun implementing good DX12/Vulkan optimisations so it will be another year or 2 until we'll see more games using the new APIs in a way that benefits the end user.

In general just buy which one is cheaper in your region. If the prices are similar then look at which type of monitor you have (or want to buy): Gsync capable or Freesync capable. After that look at what games you have or want to buy and check some benchmarks.

Thanks for the reply. Yer as you say, I've looked at reviews/games that I want to play, prices etc hence my conclusion that the RX580 is a better buy, at least in my opinion. With such an overwhelming majority using the 1060 I thought I was missing something..

Yer regarding what you say about future development of DX12, I'm someone that likes to keep hardware for at least a couple years before I switch (still on a 2500k and HD7950 haha). So with the advantage the 580 has in DX12, for me its a no brainer over the 1060, especially considering theyre +/- 30 euro on price..

For the longest time due to cryptocurrency mining the RX580 was non-existent, up until 3 months ago. That's why the GTX 1060 was a no brainer, since you can have the cake and eat it too, no the cake is a lie.

 

[pawel04]

In that case go for it. You'll also be saving money with a freesync monitor which you can put into something else

Haha by the time I 'go for it' due to the prices, theyll probs create a RX680 respin..

 

[whereismycard]

My 8800gt didn't even made the chart :-(

 

[Heinrich22]

Genuine question, not looking to fire up the fan boys, but isnt the rx580 8gb a better buy than the gtx1060 especially in DX12 games?

yeah but it's more expensive where I live, worldwide also probably

 

[pawel04]

yeah but it's more expensive where I live, worldwide also probably

Fair enough but here today in Austria/Germany, a Gigabyte GTX 1060 6GB costs literally exactly the same as a Gigabyte 8GB RX580 - 299€..

 

[Puiu]

I'm just glad that prices have finally started to go down.

 

[captaincranky]

I'm just glad that prices have finally started to go down.

The GPU price wars are following rthe same track as gasoline prices in the US. You're humming along, the gas seem fair priced, and all of a sudden, it goes sky high. Car owners are outraged, paychecks go straight into the gas tanks. Then, the price levels off, even begins to retreat. Yay! A big cheer goes up. Trouble is, the relieved public loses sight of what gas prices were before the big hike began. So yeah, the prices go down, but they're never as low as they were before the cycle began..

 

[Puiu]

The GPU price wars are following rthe same track as gasoline prices in the US. You're humming along, the gas seem fair priced, and all of a sudden, it goes sky high. Car owners are outraged, paychecks go straight into the gas tanks. Then, the price levels off, even begins to retreat. Yay! A big cheer goes up. Trouble is, the relieved public loses sight of what gas prices were before the big hike began. So yeah, the prices go down, but they're never as low as they were before the cycle began..

That is truly unfortunate, but I also think prices will not go back down to the same levels as before until we see memory prices settle too.

 

[captaincranky]

That is truly unfortunate, but I also think prices will not go back down to the same levels as before until we see memory prices settle too.

My analog holds up if you consider both"oil and memory as base commodities.

Not much starts without oil, and the prices of goods, delivery, airplane fares, and so forth, are based upon it.

Heck, you even need oil to run the threshers which harvest the wheat. (Mercifully, Musk and Tesla haven't started taking deposits on their "soon to be released" electric farm equipment. We'd all likely stave to death if we depended on it).

Nothing really POSTs without memory of one kind or another. So in a sense, they both function as a primary commodity, just in a different economic system.

Although to be realistic, the price of memory could go up a smidgen, were the cost of diesel fuel for those cargo freighters go up.

It's "trickle down economics", but only if the most ironic sense.