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Steam March 2021 hardware survey

Grim5

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Some interesting updates this month

* the RTX3070 is picking up steam fast (pun intended) and is now hot on the heels of the 1080ti and rx570 in market share.

* The total number of steam users with an RTX3000 gpu is now 3.4 million

* The RTX3080 has now reached the 2080 market share and surpassed 2080ti market share

* The AMD RX6000 cards continue to be missing from the steam survey, unable to reach the roughly 120,000 units needed for a model to make an appearance

* The number of steam users with a VR headset has now reached the same number of users who have a 4k or higher resolution screen


https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam
 
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Talking of which, are Nvidia even bothering to restock the 3080 FE any more?

When was the last time any went up for sale?

All that seems to drop now days are the '70's & '90's
 
The first 38% of the market is made up of cards that cost well under $300, yet we've seen no movement to supply this market from any vendor with updated cards. The RTX 3060 is apparently $300, but it isn't really it's $400+, the new GTX 1660 & RX 580 are long over due and these are the cards that matter, not the RTX 3090's etc.
 
No real surprise given how little alerts there are for amds cards compared to nvidias on the discord servers, amd cards literally are unicorns. But then again, that's what happens when they are giving 80% of their supply to consoles.
 
Grim5 said:
Some interesting updates this month

* the RTX3070 is picking up steam fast (pun intended) and is now hot on the heels of the 1080ti and rx570 in market share.

* The total number of steam users with an RTX3000 gpu is now 3.4 million

* The RTX3080 has now reached the 2080 market share and surpassed 2080ti market share

* The AMD RX6000 cards continue to be missing from the steam survey, unable to reach the roughly 120,000 units needed for a model to make an appearance

* The number of steam users with a VR headset has now reached the same number of users who have a 4k or higher resolution screen

Well, 3070 & 3060 are the only models drops very offten. SO people have no coice but to buy 3070.

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam
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Journey said:
The first 38% of the market is made up of cards that cost well under $300, yet we've seen no movement to supply this market from any vendor with updated cards. The RTX 3060 is apparently $300, but it isn't really it's $400+, the new GTX 1660 & RX 580 are long over due and these are the cards that matter, not the RTX 3090's etc.
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You are right but the cheaper process cards come after the new release of any generation. Its the same for games, they wont really advance development until the majority of the audience can run that game to some extent so its while before RT really develops as well as it could
 
Nexus18 said:
No real surprise given how little alerts there are for amds cards compared to nvidias on the discord servers, amd cards literally are unicorns. But then again, that's what happens when they are giving 80% of their supply to consoles.
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AMD would definitely be claiming that you need to include consoles in the numbers, which is perhaps fair enough, sales are sales, and consoles are definitely gamers too.
 
Just goes to show us techie gamers who want the latest and fastest cards are actually on the peripheral of Nvidia’s customer base. It’s the low price, high volume that’s their bread and butter
 
CuriousTomCat said:
This is proof that tons are being made. It could be the most mass produced GPU in history.

It's not the paper launch screw up that people claimed it was.
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i dont know, talk to the guys who ordered in october still waiting for their 3080 to show up.

but yeah not a paper launch just a pre order mess where stores and manufacturers over promised.
 
Grim5 said:
* The RTX3080 has now reached the 2080 market share and surpassed 2080ti market share
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but what about the 2080 super market share. The 2080 represented very poor value at launch. looking at the super refresh we are about 2-3 months away.

I can’t see an uptick in 3080 cards supply in the near future. So 3080s in the hands of gamers will still end up being very poor.

The GTX 1080 has a significant higher market share than the 2080s and 3080 cards.

but just look at the 1060 - 9.46% what is the compelling reason to upgrade from Pascal at these crazy prices.
 
crazyDAJT said:
but what about the 2080 super market share. The 2080 represented very poor value at launch. looking at the super refresh we are about 2-3 months away.

I can’t see an uptick in 3080 cards supply in the near future. So 3080s in the hands of gamers will still end up being very poor.

The GTX 1080 has a significant higher market share than the 2080s and 3080 cards.

but just look at the 1060 - 9.46% what is the compelling reason to upgrade from Pascal at these crazy prices.
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The supper cards didn't all sell out due to high demand. Stores always had stock. Nvidia literally can't make the silicon fast enough these days.

The bottleneck in the Super market share was peoples choice to buy them. This 3.4 million market share of current GPUs is due to production speed. That figure would be quadruple that if Nvidia could make quadruple the quantity.

They wouldn't have sold more super cards if Nvidia could have made them faster. They'd just be a surplus.
 
philo-sofa said:
I saw 3080s restock a few weeks ago.

But 3.4 million 3000 series cards... so this was all a demand driven shortage?
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Lots of us have been saying that from the start. I said it was demand driven on these forums months ago.

More graphics cards are being made in factories right now than ever before. The reason the 10 series was always in stock is because less people were buying them. Demand now is HUGE. Unprecedented.

Nvidia and AMD have to order silicon over a year in advance. The orders went to TSMC before the pandemic started. They ordered the correct amount based on the sales of previous gens and projected expectations.

The pandemic caused this huge demand. It blew these expert sales projections out the water. It was too late to order extra from TSMC because spare capacity was already sold.
 
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CuriousTomCat said:
Lots of us have been saying that from the start. I said it on these forums months ago.

More graphics cards are being made in factories right now than ever before. The reason the 10 series was always in stock is because less people were buying them. Now demand is HUGE. Unprecedented.

Nvidia and AMD have to order silicon over a year in advance. The orders went to TSMC before the pandemic started. They ordered the correct amount based on past experience.

Then the pandemic caused this huge demand. When it started, it was too late to order extra from TSMC because spare capacity was already sold.
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I’ve seen a lot of talk on GN, jays2c and the written sites about production bottlenecks. But fair, if you called it kudos to you.
 
CuriousTomCat said:
This is proof that tons are being made. It could be the most mass produced GPU in history.

It's not the paper launch screw up that people claimed it was.
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The paper launch thing was just a meme wasn't it?

Still, the numbers are far higher than I imagined. It's good to know that many cards are out there, hopefully the market should have some kind of normality before the year is out, or maybe next spring.
 
What I find interesting is the month-on-month change in market share, as you can see where cards are starting to make traction. 3070 is top dog but the 1650, 1650ti and 2060 gained more market share last month than the 3080.

What's really interesting is just how much the RTX3070 grabbed in February, over 1%! Makes you wonder if the January stats were accurate.
 
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