- Dec 12, 2000
- 25,383
- 9,953
- 136
Link to full survey results
Thought this was interesting. I assume HL2 is a pretty common game these days, so I would guess these results are representative of the entire population of gamers. There are just under 600,000 unique responses in the survey, so its a pretty good sample size.
While its been said ATI has greater market share than Nvidia, amongst gamers Nvidia seems to have a whopping 10% share advantage. 10% is HUGE.
Yes there are other Nvidia/ATI drivers out there, but while the additional Nvidia drivers add 1.25% to Nvidia's share, the other ATI drivers add only 0.3%. Intel came in a distant 3rd place, with their onboard graphics taking 2.76% share.
Even with these results, the most common reported graphics card happens to be "ATI Radeon 9600 Series", with just under 10% share. Comparing X700/X800 vs. 6600/6800 is a vastly different story, however. While the ATI products amount to 6.6% share, Nvidia's share is a whopping 13.4% with "current generation" parts. I excluded the 6200 and X300 because of their performance limitations.
By far the biggest surprise was in the AMD vs. Intel column. I didn't even notice it until after looking at all the graphics stuff. HOW does AMD have 48% market compared to Intel's 52%? That seems a LOT closer than it should be...almost makes AMD's case against Intel baseless? Does this mean that gamers are fundamentally different from regular PC users, or that AMD's marketing has worked with gamers but they need to focus on a wider audience? I wonder what the breakdown is between homebuilt and store bought computers amongst gamers too, as that definately has some significance.
Oh well, thought it was neat to keep track of these things.
Thought this was interesting. I assume HL2 is a pretty common game these days, so I would guess these results are representative of the entire population of gamers. There are just under 600,000 unique responses in the survey, so its a pretty good sample size.
While its been said ATI has greater market share than Nvidia, amongst gamers Nvidia seems to have a whopping 10% share advantage. 10% is HUGE.
Yes there are other Nvidia/ATI drivers out there, but while the additional Nvidia drivers add 1.25% to Nvidia's share, the other ATI drivers add only 0.3%. Intel came in a distant 3rd place, with their onboard graphics taking 2.76% share.
Even with these results, the most common reported graphics card happens to be "ATI Radeon 9600 Series", with just under 10% share. Comparing X700/X800 vs. 6600/6800 is a vastly different story, however. While the ATI products amount to 6.6% share, Nvidia's share is a whopping 13.4% with "current generation" parts. I excluded the 6200 and X300 because of their performance limitations.
By far the biggest surprise was in the AMD vs. Intel column. I didn't even notice it until after looking at all the graphics stuff. HOW does AMD have 48% market compared to Intel's 52%? That seems a LOT closer than it should be...almost makes AMD's case against Intel baseless? Does this mean that gamers are fundamentally different from regular PC users, or that AMD's marketing has worked with gamers but they need to focus on a wider audience? I wonder what the breakdown is between homebuilt and store bought computers amongst gamers too, as that definately has some significance.
Oh well, thought it was neat to keep track of these things.
I love how many GF4 MX440's exist in the world 
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