Steam September Survey: Turing cards' slow but steady rise continues, AMD close to 20%...

[midian182]

In brief: It’s that time of the month again when Valve releases its Steam Hardware & Software Survey, giving us an idea of what its platform's users are sporting inside their computers. September saw the recent rise of Turing-based graphics cards continue, with the RTX 2060 experiencing the largest gains.

When it comes to the top nine graphics cards, all but the GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti experienced declines last month, but the GTX 1060 remained comfortably on top with a 14.52 percent share. Interestingly, the most popular Turing-based card during August was the RTX 2070 in twelfth place (1.39 percent), but September saw the RTX 2060 leapfrog it into tenth position with a 1.54 percent share. AMD’s highest entry—the Radeon RX 580—remained in eleventh.

It was a good month for Turing cards in general. The RTX 2060 had the largest increase among survey participants (0.27 percent), followed by the GTX 1660 Ti (0.25 percent), the GTX 1650 (0.25 percent), and the RTX 2070 Super—a new entry with 0.18 percent.

AMD will be happier to know that its CPUs are continuing to see gradual increases in user numbers, while Intel’s are on the decline. Team Red is just shy of a 20 percent share, while Chipzilla has fallen to 80 percent.

Elsewhere, a primary display resolution of 1920 x 1080 remains the most popular (63.47 percent) despite the increasing number of monitors with resolutions higher than full HD. And with its end-of-extended-support date drawing ever closer, Windows 7 users fell again to 17.71 percent while Windows 10 got ever closer to a 75 percent share.

The survey shows that low- to mid-range cards continue to be most popular among participants, so it’ll be interesting to see how quickly users snap up the GTX 1660 Super and GTX 1650 Ti, which are rumored to launch this month.

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[Jtd49]

This stuff is interesting but I wish there was another place where these stats could be collected and seen. Besides the places that do it now. I think to do it a site would have to have a face associated with it that people really liked and trusted. Also some way of verifying that the people actually do have the hardware. Maybe an App with a famous face representing it. I don't know but it would be cool.

 

[krizby]

This just show how out of touch Techspot is, despite being ridiculed the 1650 still perform well with MMO games. Really is it so hard to understand that budget gamers care little about AAA games and more about MMO games ?
And well 2060 super vs 5700XT vs 2070 Super is just another can of worms. Tech Deals did a way better analysis with benchmarks.

 

[Shadowboxer]

This just show how out of touch Techspot is, despite being ridiculed the 1650 still perform well with MMO games. Really is it so hard to understand that budget gamers care little about AAA games and more about MMO games ?
And well 2060 super vs 5700XT vs 2070 Super is just another can of worms. Tech Deals did a way better analysis with benchmarks.

I think the higher 1650 numbers might be from laptops. Lots of laptops offering this low power GPU now, it’s a decent laptop part, offering a lot more than integrated solutions.

 

[grumblguts]

I did the wccftech survey of real life people hardware and the ratio was 60 to 40 in favour of nvidia.

 

[Daniele 00]

This just show how out of touch Techspot is, despite being ridiculed the 1650 still perform well with MMO games. Really is it so hard to understand that budget gamers care little about AAA games and more about MMO games ?
And well 2060 super vs 5700XT vs 2070 Super is just another can of worms. Tech Deals did a way better analysis with benchmarks.

out of curiosity... who are "budget gamers" ?
This definition "budget gamers" sounds so depressing...
... I mean, nowdays we can build a decent gaming pc without spent so much, also Fiber connection is replacing adsl everywhere (for fps games). So, who are you calling "badget gamers" ?

 

[krizby]

out of curiosity... who are "budget gamers" ?
This definition "budget gamers" sounds so depressing...
... I mean, nowdays we can build a decent gaming pc without spent so much, also Fiber connection is replacing adsl everywhere (for fps games). So, who are you calling "badget gamers" ?

Lol where I live the maximum fiber speed available is 500mbs and cost 1000usd a month. So yeah I would rather buy a 4000usd PC and play games that I actually own.

Well budget gamer are people who don't have a source of income yet but would like to play games on PC, they could be your son or nephew. In fact I built a PC out of my used parts for my nephew (I5 3570K + GTX 1060 6GB). He mostly play online games like Dota 2, CSGO, PUBG, Insurgency and sometimes old AAA games like Fallout 3, Fallout 4, The Witcher 3 that he paid for by selling CSGO skins.

I believe that it is just easier to buy PC parts rather than having fast Fiber optic connection almost everywhere in the world, that's why Google Stadia is destined for failure...