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NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 970 Now The Most Popular Graphics Card on Steam, Survey Reports

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Steam has updated their hardware survey page as of December 2015 and revealed an interesting development. From some time, we have known that NVIDIA has dominated the discrete graphics market with a share around 80% with AMD’s share standing around 20%. The Steam hardware survey page gives a glimpse of the market as it shows which graphics cards are selling well and most popular among PC gamers.

Read more: http://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-gtx-970-steam-survey/#ixzz3xJltzqom
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Not surprised to read this and the 970 is a great card for 1080P gaming. Good price as well.
 
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I'm as guilty as the next fan boy for perpetuating this decline into a one horse race by solely buying NVidia products for the last 3-4 years, but I truly truly hope that AMD can weather this and come out on a par or better and fast.
 
This is the flawed survey though. The reason why there are so many integrated GPU's in the screenshot including the HD4000 is because the survey picks up the GPU on your CPU. So if you have got a say AMD 390 but your CPU is a i5 2500k you get one for the AMD and one for the HD4000 in the CPU as the survey also registers the latter. Reason in the slow decline of the HD4000 is due to people buying skylake.

970 at the top agree is surprising/expected but then again its only 5% of total Steam users.
 
james.miller said:
If that doesnt convince the nay-sayers that the 970 isn't broken then nothing will.
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It was never about that, it was the fact Nvidia didn't reveal the actual spec, and listed it as having more ROPS etc. The half hearted non-apology from Nvidia CEO made it even worse :P

Some people don't like false advertising etc, me included. I'm rocking a GTX 970 and think it was well dodgy. Water under the bridge now though, especially with AMD's equally as dodgy Eeeeee noise that was apparently fixed for retail (But wasn't) and overclocking dream (The dream being that you could overclock)..

If only Samsung made GPU's..
 
Gregster said:
Not surprised to read this and the 970 is a great card for 1080P gaming. Good price as well.
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Good news for NVIDIA fans.

Bad news overall for a competitive/innovative/fair priced GPU market.

Though I suppose the death of the GPU forum here and other places, if AMD does fold will be a good thing, though not sure how some people will spend their time when they can't spend all day posting pro NVIDIA things here :D
 
Boomstick777 said:
It was never about that, it was the fact Nvidia didn't reveal the actual spec, and listed it as having more ROPS etc. The half hearted non-apology from Nvidia CEO made it even worse :P
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It's always been about that, I've been told enough times that my 970 doesnt work when it hits 3.5gb usage. People still use that , today, as an reason not to buy one.

If only Samsung made GPU's..
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then we'd get GPUs that get retired after 12 months with no software support....
 
james.miller said:
It's always been about that, I've been told enough times that my 970 doesnt work when it hits 3.5gb usage.
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Ah yeah fair enough it's that what it was about for you, for me it was falsely advertising the spec and then the CEO non-apology made it worse. Nvidia got away far to lightly. Coming from another GTX 970 user..

Nothing wrong with the card, should have listed correct spec from the get go.
 
Dave2150 said:
Good news for NVIDIA fans.

Bad news overall for a competitive/innovative/fair priced GPU market.

Though I suppose the death of the GPU forum here and other places, if AMD does fold will be a good thing, though not sure how some people will spend their time when they can't spend all day posting pro NVIDIA things here :D
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It's been a slow news week, so thought this was interesting. The 970 I owned was a great card, just not there for 1440P and all the ultra details. I did a video yesterday comparing AMD Vs Nvidia as well, not that it would interest some here but I did it non the less :)
 
varkanoid said:
This is the flawed survey though. The reason why there are so many integrated GPU's in the screenshot including the HD4000 is because the survey picks up the GPU on your CPU. So if you have got a say AMD 390 but your CPU is a i5 2500k you get one for the AMD and one for the HD4000 in the CPU as the survey also registers the latter. Reason in the slow decline of the HD4000 is due to people buying skylake.

970 at the top agree is surprising/expected but then again its only 5% of total Steam users.
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As well as that, if you look at the most popular resolutions there are a lot of what must be laptop resolution users on steam, so the steam survey is a pretty good reflection on PC sales generally, but its crap as soon as you start trying to look at what would make up most of Nvidia and AMD discrete sales.
 
Gregster said:
It's been a slow news week, so thought this was interesting. The 970 I owned was a great card, just not there for 1440P and all the ultra details. I did a video yesterday comparing AMD Vs Nvidia as well, not that it would interest some here but I did it non the less :)
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Tbf I've been pondering a switch down to a s/h 970 due to lack of gaming at present, but I know I'd have to play most games at Medium but I think I'd be ok with that :)
 
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