Okay, another month has passed and it's time again to take a look at Steam's hardware survey data.
Let's start with the bad news: they totally fucked up the DX11-section this month, resulting in a huge drop of DX11-compatible GPUs and a huge gain of "DX8 and below" GPUs:
I suppose, they flagged all DX11-GPUs with DX12-confirmation as "DX12" (leaving only a lot of mobile chips in the DX11-category), but forgot to add a DX12-category... so all these DX12-compatible GPUs they are counted as "DX 8 and below" and aren't shown at all.
But that's no big problem, since it is one of the odd month, where the additional "all video cards" section gets updated. And this list seems to be okay, at least all GPUs and GPU series tracked by me follow their trend of the previous months:
| Conina said: Still no separate "R7 300 series" or "R9 300 series" in the list. I suspect that the added "R7 series" are the "R7 300" GPUs and that the "R9 300" GPUs are hidden in the "R9 200 series"... why else should the R9 200 get that much growth? |
My theory of last month seems to hold up: the unspecified "R7 series" had again huge gains, so it seems to be the "R7 300 series" and can be separated of the "R7 200 series" data. The R9 380, 380X, 390 and 390X on the other hand seem to be included in the "R9 200 series"... maybe Valve can't separate this GPU refresh of the R9 290X, 290, 280X...
The "R9 Fury series" is still not listed, but the GTX 980 Ti finally shows up with a bang: 0.66% is a fantastic share for such an expensive card! Neither the GTX 780 Ti nor all GTX Titans put together could reach such a Steam share in their best months (as far as I know).
With the added "GTX 980 Ti" data, both my GPU-selection of cards as capable as a PS4 (or at least an XBO, depends on the game) and my GPU-selection of VR-ready cards (even if a GTX 780 isn't officially counted by Nvidia as "VR-ready", it should be close enough performance-wise) get a big push:
Keep in mind that the growth of Steam accounts by 5 million users each month is just an educated guess based on former reported growth... it could be totally off! If Valve reports something like 150 million accounts in a few month instead of my expected numbers, it is easy to fix in my Excel file.
The former most popular GPU on Steam "Intel HD Graphics 4000" is still loing relevance very fast... from September to January it dropped from 3.87% to 3.19%. In the same time, the GTX 960 rose from 1.57% to 2.53% while the low priced GTX 750 Ti grew a bit slower from 1.92% to 2.44%. The "Intel HD Graphics 4400" seems to be standing still.
If these trends continue, both Nvidia cars should overtake the Intel chip in a few months, resulting in the following ranking: GTX 970 > GTX 960 > GTX 750 Ti > Intel HD 4000 & 4400.
Over and Out!
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