So I was looking at the Steam Hardware Survey thing...

[WantoN]

The more savvy user tends to be privacy considerate, and may not want to invest. Said user is also the most likely Togo k £700+ an affordable expenditure for gaming.

I don't believe the Steam survey is particularly representative of the entire sprectum. Then again I'm sure the majority of its users do submit to the survey.

 

[AthlonXP1800]

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/

Being a 980 TI user...
And am I reading this right...
Only 0.24% of users are using a 980 TI?

I thought this card was quite popular even though there are many new cards out there?

Also...

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

85% of GPUs are Nvidia? That's quite a dominance surely?

Time for me to upgrade I think... I assume 1080TI is the current beast?

Thanks folks!

Yes I remembered 980 Ti was really very popular back in 2015 sold like hot cake thousands flew out of shelves every week accorded to Gibbo but I cant remembered what the steam share it was when 980 Ti peaked, probably around 3% or something. I remembered GTX 970 was number 1 back in 2015 peaked around 14% share but it fell when Nvidia launched Pascal GTX 1080, 1070, 1060, 1050 Ti and 1050 in 2016 then sometime in 2017 saw GTX 970 dethroned by GTX 1060 as currently number 1 on steam survey.

Yes 85% of gamers GPUs are Nvidia accorded to Nvidia Q4 2017 financial result last month.

Yes 1080 Ti is the current beast but it wont last much longer as it approached 1 year old, Nvidia could launch 2070 and 2080 cards probably in April or around July accorded to rumours.

 

[AthlonXP1800]

Steam surveys are not independently verified for a very good reason. Enough said.

Steam surveys was independently verified by AMD back in 2016 and also Nvidia last month.

Increased its GeForce GPU share among gamers on the Steam online gaming platform to 86 percent.

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/...al-results-for-fourth-quarter-and-fiscal-2018

GTX 1060 currently ranked number 1, 1050 Ti ranked number 4 and 1050 ranked number 6 are confirmed to be accurate, you can verified it by look at Jon Peddie Research Q4 2017 AIB marketshare that JPR labelled Mainstream $90-$149, Midrange $150-$249, High-End $250+ and Workstation. Midrange is the largest segment accounted 51.7% share that where some 1050 cards, 1050 Ti, 1060 3GB and 1060 6GB are belong in that segment. 1030 and low price 1050 cards fall in Mainstream segment and 1070, 1070 Ti, 1080, 1080 Ti and Titan Xp fall in High-End segment.

https://www.jonpeddie.com/press-rel...sed-in-q417-from-last-quarter-amd-gained-mark

 

[Rroff]

Steam hardware survey is largely indicative of what people using Steam have - the only thing that has skewed it a bit is the influx from certain regions recently which have more limited hardware choices and/or different ones.

 

[AthlonXP1800]

The whole steam survey thing is messed up anyway with the 65% of the chinese people in steam that came into it when that game was release a couple of months ago.

I thought Steam survey was messed up 2 months ago when I saw 65% of Steam users are Chinese then I realised Steam survey not messed up after read Steam download stats I was very surprised China became Steam's biggest global download traffic surpassed USA.

Steam download stats over the last 7 days:

China
Total Bytes: 46.5 PB
Average Download Rate: 32.3 Mbps
Percentage of global Steam Traffic: 18.0%

Performance by Internet Service Provider (ISP)
Shown below are the average download rates for Steam clients on the most popular Internet Service Providers for China, sorted by the number of bytes delivered to that network.



Network Average Download Rate
China Telecom 30.7 Mbps
China Unicom 29.4 Mbps
China Mobile Guangdong 30.9 Mbps
China Telecom Guangdong 26.8 Mbps
China Mobile Shandong 31 Mbps
China Telecom jiangsu 26.6 Mbps
China Telecom Jiangxi 28.8 Mbps
Hangzhou Alibaba Advertising Co.,Ltd. 25.4 Mbps
China Telecom Zhejiang 21.3 Mbps
China Telecom Hubei 11.3 Mbps

United States of America
Total Bytes: 42.2 PB
Average Download Rate: 38.4 Mbps
Percentage of global Steam Traffic: 16.4%

Performance by Internet Service Provider (ISP)
Shown below are the average download rates for Steam clients on the most popular Internet Service Providers for United States of America, sorted by the number of bytes delivered to that network.



Network Average Download Rate
Comcast Cable 55.3 Mbps
Time Warner Cable 54.3 Mbps
Spectrum 47 Mbps
AT&T U-verse 21.2 Mbps
Cox Communications 49.7 Mbps
Verizon Fios 59.2 Mbps
CenturyLink 12.2 Mbps
Frontier Communications 19.4 Mbps
Optimum Online 54.7 Mbps
Suddenlink Communications 54.9 Mbps

United Kingdom
Total Bytes: 9.9 PB
Average Download Rate: 28.8 Mbps
Percentage of global Steam Traffic: 3.9%

Performance by Internet Service Provider (ISP)
Shown below are the average download rates for Steam clients on the most popular Internet Service Providers for United Kingdom, sorted by the number of bytes delivered to that network.



Network Average Download Rate
Virgin Media 56.8 Mbps
BT 25.9 Mbps
Sky Broadband 15.3 Mbps
TalkTalk 15.7 Mbps
EE High Speed Internet 17.6 Mbps
Cablecom Networking 44.2 Mbps
Ask4 Limited 38.9 Mbps
INFONET Services Corporation 23.3 Mbps
PlusNet Technologies Ltd 20.9 Mbps
Vodafone Limited 23.6 Mbps

http://store.steampowered.com/stats/content/

In 2017 people spend $109bn on PC, consoles and mobile video games worldwide, China was surprised top leader spend $27.55bn surpassed USA $25.06bn.

http://www.scmp.com/tech/apps-gamin...-global-video-games-market-record-us109b-2017

 

[r7slayer]

Well most AMD cards are probs in mining machines so nvidia is the only go to. But now nvidia are being hit hard with mining and memory shortage and price hikes.

 

[DarrenM343]

Yes absolutely.

No I jest

Honestly speaking I was going to get a 1080TI a long time ago, but that plan was put to bed...

But recently Ive been thinking to go 4K and will need a meatier GPU to go with it... hence thinking about the 1080TI

However I'm assuming now is not be the best time due to GPU prices being so high? Whats driving this? Cryptomining?

I'd hold on now until next gen, personally. The 1180 or whatever it's going to be called will likely be faster than a 1080 Ti, have new features, improved power efficiency and will hold it's value better.

 

[Cavallino]

Cheers folks for your input Will wait for the next iterations and see what happens then.

Thanks again!

 

[C-Roy]

I'd hold on now until next gen, personally. The 1180 or whatever it's going to be called will likely be faster than a 1080 Ti, have new features, improved power efficiency and will hold it's value better.

Imagine trying to get hold of one of them when they're released.

 

[Geck0]

Steam surveys was independently verified by AMD back in 2016 and also Nvidia last month.

I wasn't talking about the veracity of the actual submissions, just the polling profile.

 

[subbytna]

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/

Being a 980 TI user...
And am I reading this right...
Only 0.24% of users are using a 980 TI?

I thought this card was quite popular even though there are many new cards out there?

Also...

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

85% of GPUs are Nvidia? That's quite a dominance surely?

Time for me to upgrade I think... I assume 1080TI is the current beast?

Thanks folks!

Gamers on OCUK forums and enthusiasts, are less than 10% of users in the grand scheme of things. We are a minority, within a bubble

 

[edscdk]

I'd hold on now until next gen, personally. The 1180 or whatever it's going to be called will likely be faster than a 1080 Ti, have new features, improved power efficiency and will hold it's value better.

unless AMD release a Nvidia killer I predict the 1180 (or what ever its called) will run 10 - 20% faster and use slightly less power and be flighty cheaper

 

[x-st]

Gamers on OCUK forums and enthusiasts, are less than 10% of users in the grand scheme of things. We are a minority, within a bubble

Whilst I don't disagree, I actually find this quite surprising given that PC gaming feels so much more niche than console gaming, and to be actually using Steam I'd have thought that there'd be a greater proportion of people actively seeking better hardware.

 

[HangTime]

0.24% doesn't surprise me for a specific card, bearing in mind how many different variants there are out there. I'm probably more surprised to see the top 4 cards swallowing more than 50% market share, and the increasing market share of old GPUs such as 7900 series which is over 5 years old now.

 

[Kirby Wurm]

True that.
I am so spoiled with the 144hz on my desktop (even without freesync these days), that the gsync laptop at 60hz everything but strategy games feel unplayable.

Very much so. I can't seem to disable the 60hz lock in Red Orchestra and it feels unplayable and sluggish to me.

The rise in percentage for older cards could be down to more second hand purchases because of the current price inflation?