Steam 2011 Oct. Hardware Survey GPU results

[notty22]

I'm not sure how, what is or what is not counted. But this issue has been mentioned for at least a year now. That sli is detected and crossfire is not. Since Steam works with AMD to give driver updates, would this not be fixed ? Also, even though under system information, it mentions I have sli, it also states I only have 1 logical gpu.
Someone with a current Steam/AMD system (crossfire) post this section please, if only to help clarify this. Maybe we could get a comment from a Steam rep on this issue.

 

[tviceman]

Steam doesn't split gtx560 vs 560 ti?

And CF is not detected, registers as a single card. Thus AMD # are artificially low.

Steam isnt counting multi-GPU setups as several GPU's where individual cards are listed, it's only counting the primary card. If it was counting every single GPU (instead of just the primary), then integrated graphics would be high up on that list and Intel would have more than 10% of the share. Thus AMD numbers are artifically low by only 0.006% and is consequentially insignificant.

 

[evilspoons]

Yeesh, all those poor suckers who still have Geforce 6100s.

The part I found most amusing is the software survey still reports 0.7% of people having Microsoft FrontPage installed. They discontinued that in 2003 and it was terrible long before then! Hahaha.

 

[evilspoons]

...it also states I only have 1 logical gpu.

I`m guessing this has to do with the logical-vs-phyiscal distinction. A CPU with hyperthreading only has four physical cores but shows up as 8 logical processors so that each subsystem of each core may be used individually. Games only want to draw to one video card (they don`t draw to each one individually) so SLI and Crossfire present the game with one logical video card to render to, whether there are 1, 2, or 4 actual GPUs behind that logical video card.

 

[RampantAndroid]

I`m guessing this has to do with the logical-vs-phyiscal distinction. A CPU with hyperthreading only has four physical cores but shows up as 8 logical processors so that each subsystem of each core may be used individually. Games only want to draw to one video card (they don`t draw to each one individually) so SLI and Crossfire present the game with one logical video card to render to, whether there are 1, 2, or 4 actual GPUs behind that logical video card.

Yeah, they just got their language wrong. They mean physical.