The May survey results were boring, all trends as expected. But June had some unexpected changes.
- the share of DX12-GPUs has gone down a bit since April from 93.65% to 92.89%
- the share of connected VR headsets has gone down a lot! Well, I couldn't blame anyone to not use a VR headset in the hot summer months
- the Radeon RX 6700 XT had its debut in "DirectX12 systems" with 0.09%. It brings the total of RDNA2-GPUs from 0.20% to 0.29%... so 45% gain
- still no RNDA2 model has reached 0.15% to show up in the "all video cards" statistic
- the RTX 2060 had a very unusual spike from 5.00% to 5.99%
- RTX 30x0 has reached 4.39% share of the surveyed Steam PCs after 9 full months... for comparison:
- RTX 20x0 had reached 3.12% share of the surveyed Steam PCs after 9 full months
- GTX 16x0 + RTX 20x0 had reached 3.76% share of the surveyed Steam PCs after 9 full months
- GTX 10x0 had reached 7.75% share of the surveyed Steam PCs after 9 full months
- GTX 9x0 had reached 4.68% share of the surveyed Steam PCs after 9 full months
- the Steam hardware base and user base have hugely grown over the years... so 4.39% in 2021 will be much more GPU units than 4.68% in 2015
- 19.31% of the GPUs are RT-compatible... based on the 120 million MAUs that would be ~23.2 million units.
for comparison: ~14.9 million RT-compatible consoles (VGC-estimate: 9.34m PS5 and 5.55m Xbox Series X/S)
- 19.02% of the GPUs are DLSS-compatible... based on the 120 million MAUs that would be ~22.8 million units.
DLSS-supported games can perform better on a RTX 2060 than on PS5/SeriesX or RX 6800/XT
- Intel CPUs 2.7 - 2.99 GHz had a very unusual spike from 12.96% to 15.73%
- AMD CPUs 3.3 - 3.69 GHz had an unusual fall from 15.06% to 13.80%
- the trend to AMD CPUs seems to have turned (for now, maybe this month is just a fluke)
