Steam 2012 March Hardware survey

[AtenRa]

Does the survey provides the number of the systems that took part on the survey?? I cant find it anywhere.

 

[Don Karnage]

I look at the video cards on that list and one thing jumps out at me... People who use steam are poor and have crappy low end computers

 

[Keysplayr]

I look at the video cards on that list and one thing jumps out at me... People who use steam are poor and have crappy low end computers

Oh my. Social stumble.

 

[Tuna-Fish]

strange that 4 cores went down...

Intel's SNB dual cores are very attractive for mainstream gaming. More so than their older quad cores.

Skyrim can look pretty amazing with mods. I have only played 2 or 3 games that DX11 did anything noteworthy in yet. Unfortunate.

To use tesselation properly, you need to build your models for it. No-one will start doing that until it has real market penetration. Right now DX11 features are bolted-on afterthoughts.

 

[AdamK47]

2560x1600 = 0.19%

That's it?

 

[BallaTheFeared]

2560x1600 = 0.19%

That's it?

Makes you wonder why the 680 utterly destroying the 7970 at 1080p was downplayed so much around here... 0.19% of the market didn't approve.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

^

 

[MrK6]

The portion of the population that is prepared to buy a $500 video card is also the same portion that runs enthusiast display setups, i.e. the <1%.

 

[Lonyo]

Makes you wonder why the 680 utterly destroying the 7970 at 1080p was downplayed so much around here... 0.19% of the market didn't approve.

There's probably a much higher % of people with 2560x monitors who are likely to spend $500 on a GPU than people with other resolution monitors.

<- 2560x1440 user.

 

[blastingcap]

I look at the video cards on that list and one thing jumps out at me... People who use steam are poor and have crappy low end computers

Keep in mind that laptops are included which is why you see so many laptop-grade resolutions, CPUs, RAM, GPUs, etc. 1366x768 is a common laptop resolution for instance.

 

[ViRGE]

I look at the video cards on that list and one thing jumps out at me... People who use steam are poor and have crappy low end computers

The number of people playing Counter-Strike on ancient computers really screws with the stats. The most popular Steamworks game at most times is still CS 1.6, which is so old that you could probably get 1000fps on a damn phone.

 

[LOL_Wut_Axel]

Makes you wonder why the 680 utterly destroying the 7970 at 1080p was downplayed so much around here... 0.19% of the market didn't approve.

8% faster. UTTER DESTRUCTION, I tell you!!!

What this survey basically confirms is that most PC gamers buy graphics cards and CPUs in the $100-250 range and they keep it for several years before they bother upgrading. When they do upgrade, the cycle repeats.

 

[blackened23]

8% faster. UTTER DESTRUCTION, I tell you!!!

What this survey basically confirms is that most PC gamers buy graphics cards and CPUs in the $100-250 range and they keep it for several years before they bother upgrading. When they do upgrade, the cycle repeats.

GTX 470 56%

Oh my

 

[BallaTheFeared]

8% faster. UTTER DESTRUCTION, I tell you!!!

I predict conflicting results since results per post went up!

Nice troll attempt blackend :awe

 

[Genx87]

Nvidia now controls the majority of DX11 marketshare on Steam with right around 49.1% of DX11 cards.

 

[blackened23]

LOL :thumbsup:

 

[Grooveriding]

There's probably a much higher % of people with 2560x monitors who are likely to spend $500 on a GPU than people with other resolution monitors.

<- 2560x1440 user.

Yeah this sums it up. With the state of current PC games and the state of modern GPU power in 7970 and 680, we've hit the point where one of either of those cards will pretty much lick 1920x1200 and down. So there is some argument for it. But those recent marketshare numbers indicated about 1% of the people buying discreet cards spend $500 or more on one. The 2560x1600 numbers would account for 1/5 of those buyers.

Would be awesome if these numbers went in depth and gave a resolution breakdown by individual card as well. The data is there for them to do that if they wanted to.

 

[hdfxst]

is steam still counting crossfire as 1 card?I got the survey popup this morning and it said crossfire detected(2gpus) but it also said number of logical video cards 1 so i'm not sure.at least steam is detecting crossfire now.

 

[MrK6]

8% faster. UTTER DESTRUCTION, I tell you!!!

Lol, exactly :thumbsup:

 

[BallaTheFeared]

Yeah this sums it up. With the state of current PC games and the state of modern GPU power in 7970 and 680, we've hit the point where one of either of those cards will pretty much lick 1920x1200 and down.

Except the 680 should have been a 660, which is exactly the card people buy.

And I can assure you with CP adding IQ you could have a 680 down to a crawl @ 1080p.

Even still the way the 680 dominated AMD this round was history, I'm sure we'll be talking about it years down the road...

Do you remember when Nvidia released the 680 and beat AMD in every metric possible? That was crazy, cheaper, higher performance, better perf/watt, better perf/dollar, better acoustics, better drivers, better IQ, better perf/mm2, lower power consumption, with their mid-ranged card no less...

Stuff of legends right there.

 

[blackened23]

Except the 680 should have been a 660, which is exactly the card people buy.

And I can assure you with CP adding IQ you could have a 680 down to a crawl @ 1080p.

Even still the way the 680 dominated AMD this round was history, I'm sure we'll be talking about it years down the road...

Do you remember when Nvidia released the 680 and beat AMD in every metric possible? That was crazy, cheaper, higher performance, better perf/watt, better perf/dollar, better acoustics, better drivers, better IQ, better perf/mm2, lower power consumption, with their mid-ranged card no less...

Stuff of legends right there.

Hahahahaha. :thumbsup:

You should win an award for this, you're trying pretty hard. How far does your 680 oc?

 

[Grooveriding]

Hahahahaha. :thumbsup:

You should win an award for this, you're trying pretty hard. How far does your 680 oc?

 

[blackened23]

 

[BallaTheFeared]

Hahahahaha. :thumbsup:

You should win an award for this, you're trying pretty hard. How far does your 680 oc?

I'm not a material girl in a material world, I'm waiting for a real mans chip. :awe:

 

[Lepton87]

. But those recent marketshare numbers indicated about 1% of the people buying discreet cards spend $500 or more on one. The 2560x1600 numbers would account for 1/5 of those buyers.

Would be awesome if these numbers went in depth and gave a resolution breakdown by individual card as well. The data is there for them to do that if they wanted to.

The rest buy 2560x1440(0.8%) which is a better deal and some people actually prefer tighter dot pitch of 27 2560x1440 displays to slightly higher size and resolution.