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JEMC said:

Chicho said:

So RTX 5070 and 5060Ti are on the Steam hardware survey but the RX 9070 and 9070 XT are not. So much for the AMD is gaining a lot of market share idea.

Some things worth to keep in mind:

1) It's easy to win marketshare when you actual presence in the market is very small. Going from, as an example, 10 to a 15% share is a big increase, but it still pales in comparison with what Nvidia has.

2) The huge wins in marketshare came, if I remember correctly, from Japan, where the AMD employees there said so and also made fun of themselvs. "We're not used to selling os many GPUs" was one of the quotes from that discussion.

3) The Steam survery, while very welcome and useful in some ways, leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to track AMD GPUs. It's something that we've talked about several times over at Conina's Monthly Steam hardware survey thread.

Also worth noting is that on the Steam Survey AMD currently has a market share of 17.6%, which is it's highest market share in years.

And then there's the problem of the Steam Survey not always allocating AMD GPUs properly. AMD has 3 different AMD Radeon Graphics stacks in the charts, which are pretty non-descript. At least one of them is expected to actually be the missing Radeon 7000 and potentially also 9000 series GPUs. And even when they show up, they don't always do so in the correct manner: the 7800XT for instance isn't recognized by the Steam Survey as a DX 12 GPU and instead gets grouped as a DX8 GPU - hence why DX8 GPUs are growing bigger and bigger in percentage...