2023-10-02 23:07:42
The mainstream popularity of the previous generation continues to rise. Nvidia’s nearly three-year-old GeForce RTX 3060 continues to solidify its position as one of the most used GPUs among gamers. There’s a reason it was near the top of our picks for best graphics cards until its successor arrived in the form of the RTX 4060. In the latest Steam survey results for September, mid-range GPUs from one generation ago recorded a 1.4% month-on-month increase, taking a (relatively) large 6.10% share of the Steam survey pie. There are several possible reasons for the sudden rise in market share. Some of that is a result of GPU upgrades, and perhaps a result of gamers getting better deals on previous generation parts. For the first time, the RTX 3060 (desktop model) has replaced the GTX 1650. The RTX 3060 entry will likely include both 3060 12GB and 3060 8GB cards. Of course, the RTX 3060 hasn’t started its reign as the most popular GPU on Steam. The GTX 1650, GTX 1060, and RTX 2060 all have one spot each on the list, while the RTX 3060 ranks separately from the RTX 3060 Laptop GPU, which also has a 3.6% share. . Together, these two entries mean the 3060 GPU has been the most popular choice on Steam for most of the past year. And remember, this might simply be an unintentional deviation in the way Steam surveys are conducted. This has happened many times in the past, and Valve remains tight-lipped regarding how the study was actually conducted and whether it was statistically correct. For example, earlier this year, many GPU stats saw an unusual spike, with the 3060 showing a 6.41% increase in March compared to February. (This appears to have been the result of additional research conducted in China that month, although the exact details have not been disclosed). Looking at the top 12, Nvidia holds every position except for AMD’s entry in 12th place. It seems likely that this will include GPUs from various families, and may include a mix of integrated and discrete cards. This result still gives Nvidia a large lead in overall market share. It accounts for 77% of the entire GPU market, exceeding AMD’s 14.8% and Intel’s 7.9% (“Other” is 0.3%). However, this was for all GPUs included in the study, and it would also be useful to look at more recent cards. Let’s just focus on dedicated GPUs from the last three generations, five years, and three architectures. So there’s AMD RDNA/RX 5000, RDNA 2/RX 6000, RDNA 3/RX 7000. Nvidia has Turing/GTX 16/RTX 20, Ampere/RTX 30, and Ada Lovelace/RTX 40. Combined, these represent 67.5% of all GPUs, of which AMD’s 7.79% and Nvidia’s 92.21%, giving Nvidia an advantage. Of course, the Steam Survey doesn’t necessarily reflect the PC market as a whole, and at best it gives an indication of what kind of hardware Steam users have on their PCs. We must be careful not to extrapolate this result to the market as a whole. But Steam Survey can tell you a lot regarding gaming PCs. According to Statista, Steam has 132 million unique players as of 2021. 60 class cards like Nvidia’s RTX 3060, RTX 2060, and GTX 1060 often tend to be the flagship GPUs that offer the best performance/dollar. However, this scenario has changed as GPU manufacturers have accepted the higher margins available on the professional/workstation side compared to consumer-level GPUs. There’s also more SKU consolidation: Nvidia’s 8000 series launched with a total of 13 SKUs, compared to just seven for the RTX 20 series (and five more for the GTX 16 series) and just a few for the RTX 40 series. There are only 6 types of GPUs. The same trend applies to AMD’s product line, with only six RX 7000 series products compared to 21 for the Radeon 200 series. GPU manufacturers are making difficult choices regarding which manufacturing capacity to allocate to which chips, with the low end being (mostly) absorbed into integrated solutions that can be sold at the highest possible margins (A100/H100 for data centers). or Instinct MI200 GPU). Source: Tom’s Hardware – Nvidia Desktop RTX 3060 GPU Finally Tops Steam Survey Explanation: RTX3060 has finally come to the top in the Steam Hardware Survey The previous generation mid-range product RTX3060 has come out on top in the Steam Hardware Survey. The undisputed leader in the GPU category of the Steam hardware survey is the GTX1060, which has remained unchanged even following two generations, but Ampere has finally taken the top spot. Although the Steam hardware survey can serve as a guide, it cannot be used as a yardstick to measure the entire PC gaming market, but it is significant that Ampere’s RTX3060 came out on top in the Steam survey, rather than the GTX1650 or GTX1060. I think so. The original article states that it makes more sense to produce expensive products than to produce low-end or middle-low products, but it is best not to misjudge that since it is low-end and middle-low products that contribute to the spread of products. . If the performance of SoC’s built-in GPU improves in the future, APU and Intel products will increase instead of low-end and mid-low. Once the number exceeds a certain point, manufacturers will no longer be able to ignore it. In fact, I think Valve’s custom SoCs installed in recent portable gaming PCs and the Ryzen Z1 series installed in ROG Ally are recognized as major forces. In fact, “AMD Radeon Graphics” is ranked 12th in this month’s Steam hardware survey. This probably refers to portable gaming PCs such as Steamdeck or ROG Ally. It is said that Zen5 APUs will have even stronger built-in GPUs, so this trend will continue to grow. I also think that if APUs are strengthened in the future, there is a possibility that a set-top box (similar to a dedicated machine like a game console) dedicated to PC games will be released. ROG Ally and others are priced at 110,000 yen with an LCD and a battery, so you can probably get it cheaper without an LCD or a battery. If it can be mass-produced at a low cost of around 50,000 to 70,000 yen, I think there will be a certain level of demand for it in Internet cafes. If FSR3 supports it, I think it will be possible to output around 60FPS in FullHD with APU. Regardless of sales and profit margins, I think there is a good chance that in terms of numbers, depending on future trends, we can turn this around in one generation. Naturally, I think there is a possibility that Intel will focus on this field as a way to revive itself. If these cheap products take over the market, I think it’s possible that nVIDIA will dislike it and withdraw from the gaming market.
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