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Steam: Nvidia sold 11 GeForce RTX 3000 cards for every Radeon RX 6000 card that AMD sold
The July update of the Steam Hardware Survey revealed several details about the sales of the various manufacturers, one of which was that Nvidia is outperforming AMD by a wide margin when comparing the two companies' previous generations: The greens sold 11 GeForce RTX 3000 GPUs for every Radeon RX 6000 GPU that the reds sold, resulting in a ratio of 11 to 1.
According to the survey results, the GeForce RTX 3070 was Nvidia's best-selling graphics card, and it is currently being used by 1.52 percent of Steam users. RTX 3080 with 0.88 percent, RTX 3060 with 0.64 percent, RTX 3060 Ti with 0.42 percent, and finally, the RTX 3090 with 0.38 percent are the next best performing graphics cards in this category. In total, 3.88 percent of Steam users have a GeForce RTX 3000 graphics card installed on their computer.
| Model | Percentage |
| GeForce RTX 3090 | 0,38% |
| GeForce RTX 3080 | 0,88% |
| GeForce RTX 3070 | 1,56% |
| GeForce RTX 3060 Ti | 0,42% |
| GeForce RTX 3060 | 0,64% |
| AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT | 0,08% |
| AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT | 0,1% |
| AMD Radeon RX 6800 | 0,05% |
| AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT | 0,12% |
On the AMD side, the Radeon RX 6700 XT was the most widely used RX 6000 graphics card, accounting for 0.12 percent of total usage. With 0.1 percent, the RX 6800 XT is the next best-selling model, followed by 0.08 percent for the RX 6900 XT and finally 0.05 percent for the RX 6800. In total, 0.35 percent of Steam users have a Radeon RX 6000 graphics card, which means that they do not even come close to matching the percentage of RTX 3090 owners. Also, by dividing the percentages, we can see that Nvidia sold approximately 11 RTX 3000 GPUs for every RX 6000 GPU that AMD sold, which is insane given the competition.
In the overall ranking, the GTX 1060 continues to be the most popular graphics card, with 7.95 percent of users opting for it. The top 10 graphics cards are all green, indicating that Nvidia continues to be the leader in the gaming graphics market and will likely remain so for some time. The weather is nice. The release of a Ryzen-based GPU will be interesting to watch, although it appears that this will not be the case for at least several generations to come.
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#5935293 Posted on: 08/05/2021 02:34 PM
Let's not forget the RTX 3000 series has been around for longer and came at a time when GPUs weren't in quite as high demand for mining as they were a few weeks later, so I'm sure more actually got in the hands of gamers.
"Noone" wants rx 6000 series compared to nVidia 30 series, so maybe most people are on crack?
Look at 3dmark, and you will see the same trend there with numbers of subs with 30 series cards vs rx 6k cards...
No sane person uses 3dmark as a way to determine if they should buy a GPU...
The RX 6000 series is fine, and if it weren't for inflated prices, it would be an ideal choice for anyone who doesn't yet care about raytracing.
Let's not forget the RTX 3000 series has been around for longer and came at a time when GPUs weren't in quite as high demand for mining as they were a few weeks later, so I'm sure more actually got in the hands of gamers.
"Noone" wants rx 6000 series compared to nVidia 30 series, so maybe most people are on crack?
Look at 3dmark, and you will see the same trend there with numbers of subs with 30 series cards vs rx 6k cards...
No sane person uses 3dmark as a way to determine if they should buy a GPU...
The RX 6000 series is fine, and if it weren't for inflated prices, it would be an ideal choice for anyone who doesn't yet care about raytracing.
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#5935303 Posted on: 08/05/2021 02:48 PM
In a time of limited chip production, AMD did the obvious choice.
They can charge 500$ msrp for a CPU like the 5800X, this is a 80 mm2 chip on 7nm. Then they only need to ad packaging, a cooler and a box.
But for a GPU, they can charge 500$ msrp, for a 6700XT. This is a 336 mm2 chip on 7nm. And then they still need to ad vram, pcb, cooler, vrms, chokes, hdmi, DP, usb ports, etc.
The profit margin for a CPU is much bigger, than for a GPU.
This^^
AMD has limited access to wafers to produce their products, like everyone else, so they have to chose what´s more profitable for them. In this case it´s CPU´s, like Horus has explained very well.
And we can´t forget that AMD is obliged to produce a fixed number of APUs for the Xbos and the PS5, further reducing the number of CPUs and GPUs they can release.
In a time of limited chip production, AMD did the obvious choice.
They can charge 500$ msrp for a CPU like the 5800X, this is a 80 mm2 chip on 7nm. Then they only need to ad packaging, a cooler and a box.
But for a GPU, they can charge 500$ msrp, for a 6700XT. This is a 336 mm2 chip on 7nm. And then they still need to ad vram, pcb, cooler, vrms, chokes, hdmi, DP, usb ports, etc.
The profit margin for a CPU is much bigger, than for a GPU.
This^^
AMD has limited access to wafers to produce their products, like everyone else, so they have to chose what´s more profitable for them. In this case it´s CPU´s, like Horus has explained very well.
And we can´t forget that AMD is obliged to produce a fixed number of APUs for the Xbos and the PS5, further reducing the number of CPUs and GPUs they can release.
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#5935304 Posted on: 08/05/2021 02:53 PM
Let's not forget the RTX 3000 series has been around for longer and came at a time when GPUs weren't in quite as high demand for mining as they were a few weeks later, so I'm sure more actually got in the hands of gamers.
No sane person uses 3dmark as a way to determine if they should buy a GPU...
The RX 6000 series is fine, and if it weren't for inflated prices, it would be an ideal choice for anyone who doesn't yet care about raytracing.
There are some big RT titles that push people to buy Ampere, such as Cyberpunk 2077 and COD, later this year is Dying Light 2.
There are some people don't care about RayTracing yet but Ampere has slightly better price/perf than RDNA2 and RT/DLSS is a cherry on top.
Also I don't believe for a second that people would just outright declare that RT is not worth it before having experienced it themselves. Like when you can maintain playable framerates at the highest visual settings (Ultra or RT ON) why would anyone use lower visual settings?
Let's not forget the RTX 3000 series has been around for longer and came at a time when GPUs weren't in quite as high demand for mining as they were a few weeks later, so I'm sure more actually got in the hands of gamers.
No sane person uses 3dmark as a way to determine if they should buy a GPU...
The RX 6000 series is fine, and if it weren't for inflated prices, it would be an ideal choice for anyone who doesn't yet care about raytracing.
There are some big RT titles that push people to buy Ampere, such as Cyberpunk 2077 and COD, later this year is Dying Light 2.
There are some people don't care about RayTracing yet but Ampere has slightly better price/perf than RDNA2 and RT/DLSS is a cherry on top.
Also I don't believe for a second that people would just outright declare that RT is not worth it before having experienced it themselves. Like when you can maintain playable framerates at the highest visual settings (Ultra or RT ON) why would anyone use lower visual settings?
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#5935305 Posted on: 08/05/2021 02:56 PM
There are some big RT titles that push people to buy Ampere, such as Cyberpunk 2077 and COD, later this year is Dying Light 2.
Yeah some people don't care about RayTracing yet but Ampere has slightly better price/perf than RDNA2 and RT/DLSS is a cherry on top.
Dying Light 2 was delayed, Cod rt was subtle so only cyberpunk was a dealbreaker too bad game was totaly broken.
Actually Control was the only tittle rt was worth it.
There are some big RT titles that push people to buy Ampere, such as Cyberpunk 2077 and COD, later this year is Dying Light 2.
Yeah some people don't care about RayTracing yet but Ampere has slightly better price/perf than RDNA2 and RT/DLSS is a cherry on top.
Dying Light 2 was delayed, Cod rt was subtle so only cyberpunk was a dealbreaker too bad game was totaly broken.
Actually Control was the only tittle rt was worth it.
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Was planning on going AMD on both CPU+GPU for my new build. Only reason i went 3080 from Nvidia was supply. It was absolutely impossible to get a 6800/6900 at all so the choice was simple. Supply and demand dictates. I got a 3080 January 2021 for 1000$ used and i went for it because there was no other option. Call it bad or good luck but the card broke like 2 months ago (Was a regular gigabyte gaming oc 3080) And the supplier told me it was impossible to get hold of the same card so they sendt a new Zotac amp holo black 3080 wich is much more expensive but the funny thing is the cheaper gigabyte ran cooler + had dual bios switch...Not impressed by Zotac at all. Anyone here have a Zotac AMD card and are you happy with it??