September Steam Survey: GTX 1060 holds top spot, RTX cards yet to appear

[midian182]

The big picture: It’s that time again when Steam releases its monthly survey, giving us an idea of what hardware and software are most popular among the platform’s users. In the GPU charts, the GTX 1060 retains the number one spot, a position it has held since knocking the GTX 750 Ti off the top back in December 2017.

The GTX 1060 saw its user numbers increase last month. It was up 0.50 percent, meaning 13.81 percent of survey participants now use the card. The two GPUs in second and third place—the GTX 1050 Ti and GTX 1050—also saw their users rise, by 0.92 percent and 0.27 percent, respectively. That means the GTX 1050 Ti claimed September's biggest increase.

As usual, Nvidia dominates the GPU category; the highest AMD entry is listed as the R7 series in 18^th place with 0.88 percent—down 0.04 percent last month. Not too surprisingly, there’s no sign of Nvidia’s new RTX 2080 and 2080 Ti cards, which launched late in September.

With Nvidia pushing its RTX 2000-series cards' abilities to play games at 4K with high framerates, it’s interesting to see that not only is 1920 x 1080 still far and away the most popular resolution (62.06 percent) but it had the highest growth (1.4 percent) during September. 2560 x 1440 fell slightly to 3.59 percent, while 4K’s 3840 x 2160 stood at just 1.32 percent after falling 0.01 percent.

When it comes to CPUs, Intel extended its lead over AMD. The blue team’s chips are now found in 83.89 percent of participants' PCs. Last month saw a report that AMD was set to capture 30 percent of the CPU market this year by capitalizing on Intel’s manufacturing problems, but it appears that’s yet to start happening, at least when it comes to Steam users who take the survey.

In other areas, English remains the most popular language—it lost the top spot to simplified Chinese for a few months at the end of last year, mostly due to PUBG’s Chinese players. 8GB is the most popular amount of RAM, and most people have over 1TB of hard drive space with 250GB to 499GB free, along with a four-core CPU clocked between 3.3GHz and 3.69GHz.

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[fps4ever]

Be curious to know if that's the 3GB or 6GB version of the GTX 1060? The gamer in me thinks 6GB but Steam survey history usually tells us its the more value conscious gamers with the 3GB version.

 

[stewi0001]

Ugh, I just need to overhaul my PC but I also want to make First Order Storm trooper armor... money money money.

 

[SantistaUSA]

GTX1060 6GB is a great card, play virtually everything maxed at 1080p, got two of them and am pretty happy!

 

[GreenNova343]

Be curious to know if that's the 3GB or 6GB version of the GTX 1060? The gamer in me thinks 6GB but Steam survey history usually tells us its the more value conscious gamers with the 3GB version.

Which is probably also why the RTX cards haven't appeared yet in the survey: "value-conscious" and "RTX series" are pretty much mutually exclusively right now...

 

[erickmendes]

Sure Intel would be dominating this survey... No one in its right mind would build a gaming rig using AMD before Ryzen appeared... It will take time to AMD to gain traction on Steam Survey.

 

[trparky]

Count me in as one of the GTX1060 users, that card is literally the only thing that I could afford back when I built this new system; even then I felt like I was having my wallet raped.

 

[ShObiT]

Sure Intel would be dominating this survey... No one in its right mind would build a gaming rig using AMD before Ryzen appeared... It will take time to AMD to gain traction on Steam Survey.

I've been having AMD gaming rigs since Athlon I days, and never ever said yes to the survey, maybe out of ignorance or maybe shame, my FX8350e gave me good memories, now I'm on a Xeon Rig, thanks to an Old article here in techspot.

 

[Lew Zealand]

You can peg me as as typical an online peasant as they come, I suppose. 2x gaming PCs in the house. 1050Ti and 1060, 8GB memory each, game at 1080p and 900p mostly, 4 and 6-core CPUs. Bog standard.

OK I lie a bit, both just upgraded to 16GB this week. Woo!

 

[yeeeeman]

It is normal to see a higher percentage of Intel CPU in this survey, since it is a gaming survey.
The 30% that was said for AMD to have, is referring to all the markets, not gaming, where we know that Intel is just a little bit better (not for the money, but for absolute performance, which you can't really see, but it is in your head).

 

[Lounds]

Seems crazy how many people go for the 1060 when the rx580 has been proven to hold better frame rates when playing games Vs benchmarks. Although I imagine if it was 2008 the 8800GT would be too.

 

[Linux7055]

Seems crazy how many people go for the 1060 when the rx580 has been proven to hold better frame rates when playing games Vs benchmarks. Although I imagine if it was 2008 the 8800GT would be too.

Given how close the two perform, most people go for the market leader. Nvidia cards a lot are easier to find. All the 10 series cards can are also found in gaming laptops and prebuilts while radeons are not. Radeon cards usually have less quantity in stock, ive heard that some stores only sell nvidia. Nvidia has much better reputation and superior marketing. Radeon cards usually consume more power and nvidia has a lot more sponsored titles. About amd's reputation, they were known to have notoriously bad drivers years ago, also they only made terrible cpus before ryzen. Their past rep has caused a lot of people to not trust the brand anymore. Amd will probably never get close to nvidia, unless they somehow ruin their brand image. Intel will most likely surpass radeon when they release their gpus in 2020 and give nvidia a headache.

 

[Lew Zealand]

Seems crazy how many people go for the 1060 when the rx580 has been proven to hold better frame rates when playing games Vs benchmarks. Although I imagine if it was 2008 the 8800GT would be too.

The 580 was mega overpriced and mostly unavailable since it's inception thanks to crypto mining. Full stop, no other explanation needed.
However if you want a good card at a good price right now, the $150 RX570 is the best option on the (N.American) market.

 

[TechCat]

Well since the total here for green is 50% of the survey we can't say a major win for them. No one I know wants to answer the survey anyway. When they state what the number of contributors vs total number of members then we can judge perspective value. Many that have older rigs may not want to be part of this. AMD has been selling a ton of 2700X, 2600, 2400G and 2200Gs and now with much lower US prices plus game and MB bundle incentives 470s and 580s too, even 56/64 are down to MSRP or close.