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Most Popular Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060, Steam Hardware Survey

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Steam's latest March survey has put NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3060 at the top, reaching over 10 percent and surpassing both the GTX 1060 and the RTX 2060. NVIDIA has been holding the crown with over 80 percent of users running on their GPUs, while AMD held just over 10 percent. This means that the NVIDIA RTX 3060 almost has more users on Steam than all AMD Radeon graphics cards combined. Intel holds just over 6 percent. Bear in mind that Intel and AMD numbers also include integrated GPUs.

When it comes to CPUs, there are 74.46 percent running on Intel CPUs and 25.54 percent on AMD. Most users use a 6-core CPU, 45.76, with 8-core CPUs taking 18.45 percent. The memory amount has obviously risen, as 56.92 percent run on 16 GB, and 22.41 percent have 32 GB systems. When it comes to OS, most users are running on Windows 10, 73.95 percent, while Windows 11 OS takes 22.41 percent. While some might argue that the Steam Survey is not exactly precise as it is apparently based on a random survey, it does give a general idea and shows the big picture.
Source: Steam Survey

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94 Comments on Most Popular Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060, Steam Hardware Survey

#1
siluro818
And every single person who got this card wasted their money...
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#2
P4-630
GPU brands, 82,63% Nvidia, 10,82% AMD, 6,33% Intel and 0,22% Other..

What "Other" GPU brands are out there that runs steam and it's games?
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#3
Scircura
I find it hard to believe that a third of all owners of 2-core and 4-core systems simultaneously upgraded to a 6-core processor in the month of February. Looks like a tabulation error.

Edit: check the language breakdown. "Simplified Chinese" doubled from 25% of the results to 50%. So maybe this is a net cafe gone haywire and massively over-reporting its systems.
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#4
bug
P4-630GPU brands, 82,63% Nvidia, 10,82% AMD, 6,33% Intel and 0,22% Other..

What "Other" GPU brands are out there that runs steam and it's games?
Apple's M1/M2?

Or maybe some have figured out how to play some (old) games inside of a VM?
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#5
DeeJay1001
bugApple's M1/M2?

Or maybe some have figured out how to play some (old) games inside of a VM?
Could also be systems with no graphics driver installed and it is reporting as "Microsoft Basic Display Adapter"
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#6
Vya Domus
ScircuraI find it hard to believe that a third of all owners of 2-core and 4-core systems simultaneously upgraded to a 6-core processor in the month of February. Looks like a tabulation error.

Edit: check the language breakdown. "Simplified Chinese" doubled from 25% of the results to 50%. So maybe this is a net cafe gone haywire and massively over-reporting its systems.
Steam hardware survey has always been inaccurate and as a result useless, don't give it too much thought.
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#7
bug
Vya DomusSteam hardware survey has always been inaccurate and as a result useless, don't give it too much thought.
Inaccurate != useless.

But yes, everything that paints AMD in anything other than pink should be killed with fire, we know.
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#8
Colddecked
siluro818And every single person who got this card wasted their money...
I'm going to go out on a limb and say the vast majority of these 3060's are mobile versions.
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#9
kapone32
ColddeckedI'm going to go out on a limb and say the vast majority of these 3060's are mobile versions.
My thoughts exactly. Gaming Laptops with 3060 have been around since 2021 and are priced even better than 3050 versions which are not as fast so you are probably right,
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#10
JimmyDoogs
Playing any game at max setting 1080p and even running the hardest to run PC game Last of Us (2022) at 37 FPS in 1440p. Better performance than a PS5. Of course you might get lag spikes unless you have a processor and RAM that competes with PS5 but still not bad IMO. The 3060 shaped up to be a fairly decent card despite some of the pricing hold backs and it's not even a ti card.
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#11
kapone32
JimmyDoogsPlaying any game at max setting 1080p and even running the hardest to run PC game Last of Us (2022) at 37 FPS in 1440p. Better performance than a PS5. Of course you might get lag spikes unless you have a processor and RAM that competes with PS5 but still not bad IMO. The 3060 shaped up to be a fairly decent card despite some of the pricing hold backs and it's not even a ti card.
Which version?
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#13
64K
It's not surprising to me to see the RTX 3060 take the lead over the GTX 1060. The 1060 is over 6 years old depending on which version you're looking at and it's showing it's age. This also falls in line with what I believe to be true. Most gamers tend to upgrade every other generation.
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#14
ThrashZone
ColddeckedI'm going to go out on a limb and say the vast majority of these 3060's are mobile versions.
Hi,
Yeah probably bought from miners :laugh:
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#15
bug
64KIt's not surprising to me to see the RTX 3060 take the lead over the GTX 1060. The 1060 is over 6 years old depending on which version you're looking at and it's showing it's age. This also falls in line with what I believe to be true. Most gamers tend to upgrade every other generation.
Let's not forget, after Pascal we got Turing which was the first generation to inflate prices significantly. That had to put the brakes on many peoples' upgrades.
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#16
Dragokar
From my experience I do believe that the 3060 12Gb will have a longer "service/gamer" Life compared to the 3060Ti.
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#17
64K
bugLet's not forget, after Pascal we got Turing which was the first generation to inflate prices significantly. That had to put the brakes on many peoples' upgrades.
It did but from my observations over the years most gamers don't upgrade every generation anyway. The gamers that really got messed up were the ones running Maxwells and needed to upgrade to Turing but the prices were ridiculous.
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#18
ixi
P4-630GPU brands, 82,63% Nvidia, 10,82% AMD, 6,33% Intel and 0,22% Other..

What "Other" GPU brands are out there that runs steam and it's games?
Matrox, Arm
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#19
AnarchoPrimitiv
How do you take the steam survey? I have steam, but have never been invited or asked to take a survey.
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#20
ThrashZone
AnarchoPrimitivHow do you take the steam survey? I have steam, but have never been invited or asked to take a survey.
Hi,
Think it's a privacy setting.
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#21
Chaitanya
ColddeckedI'm going to go out on a limb and say the vast majority of these 3060's are mobile versions.
Even those laptops were scalped during peak of mining scourge.
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#22
ThrashZone
Hi,
Yeah miners were buying anything with 30 series in it hell there was a news story showing racks of laptops mining
So not surprising 3060 is a hot item since gpu mining died recently.
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#24
Daven
This months survey has a massive dump of Chinese players that were not represented before so its hard to know whats going on here. Simplified Chinese language had a massive spike.

Either the survey was hacked or Valve figured out how to get past Chinese firewalls.

Edit: Maybe the author of this article should add something about the language spike.
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#25
BorisDG
Even my old 1080Ti is more powerful (raster). Weird choice.
ScircuraI find it hard to believe that a third of all owners of 2-core and 4-core systems simultaneously upgraded to a 6-core processor in the month of February. Looks like a tabulation error.
Why not? Ryzen 5 (3600/5600) are most common CPUs out there. They are also affordable.
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