Nvidia still seems to be the head honcho when it comes to PC graphics technology. In fact, if the recent Steam survey is to be believed, it shows team green’s products appear to be preferred when it comes to gaming.
If you head over to the Steam hardware survey page, you can see that the Nvidia RTX 3060 has now taken the top spot across all video cards. Not only is it top, but it jumped up from 4.87% to 6.27% since August and has knocked the GTX 1650 down one place.
In fact, Nvidia GPUs are pretty much dominating again, according to these results. The first 11 in the “All Video Cards” category are from Nvidia, with the first AMD Radeon card appearing 12th. Intel doesn’t get a look in until position 15.
What’s the deal?
There could be a number of factors as to why the RTX 3060 is now the preferred graphics card against the still popular (though much older) GTX 1650. A report from PC Gamer says it’s likely down to the price of the 3060 dropping significantly, especially in a post-pandemic and a time in which cryptomining doesn’t seem to be as fierce.
We’re also starting to see some newer (or rather current) generation GPUs cropping up now, though things like the RTX 4090 have fallen slightly. Considering Steam barely registered any current-gen hardware, maybe this is a sign that people are starting to upgrade.
Of course, this survey is not necessarily the definitive way to find out what PC users have in their rigs. Of course, it’s going to provide a pretty substantial figure, but not everyone will be using Steam. I know. Weird, right?
