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Conina said:

Steam Stats for June are in.

GTX Pascal is still going strong... the GTX 1050 joined the top 3 of most popular GPUs (this month it is a tie with the falling GTX 960, next month it won't have to share that third place).

The top 3 (GTX 1060 + 1050 TI + 1050) already has a share of 26% and the successor series ain't even announced yet.

For comparison: two years ago (at Pascal launch) the top 3 (GTX 970 + 960 + 750 Ti) only had a share of 12%... of a much smaller hardware base.

 

Thanks, Conina.

Mid-range cards are always the most popular ones, so it's not surprising to see the 1060 and 1050 family doing well. But doing so well is impressive. Of course, one could say that those miners buying AMD cards helped with those numbers, as those cards aren't going into a gaming rig, but even then Nvidia would still win by quite some margin.

Pemalite said:

Geforce 1060 is killing it.

Edit: Radeon RX 680 rumors are starting to trickle out. Based on polaris, but at the "12nm" advertised node with an expected gain of 15% over the RX 580, which in turn had hardly anything over the RX 480 anyway. Way to stagnate AMD.
https://wccftech.com/amd-gpu-rumors-12nm-polaris-30-7nm-navi-7nm-vega-20-radeon-rx-gaming/

AMD has a serious problem with rebranding. It already happened with the first GCN cards, rebranding those HD7xxx cards three or four times until they reached the R5 3x0 parts, and now they're doing the same again, only this time with a small transistor jump that won't really make all that much in the grand scheme of things, specially considering that Nvidia will launch their next gen of cards in September.

I wouldn't be surprised if Nvidia's 1150 parts end up being on par, if not faster, than those "new" RX 680 cards.

vivster said:

JEMC said: 

I'm dissapointed with myself.

We all are.

I probably played more RL this year than you all games together.

Thanks viv, I knew I could count on you .