I agree that it would be weird, but it's also weird how long it takes for Steam to show new AMD cards and how they usually "hide" those numbes under the DX9 and before figures until they post them in the right place.

It's like Valve uses the GPU variant to make make the graphs, and it's easier to tell appart Nvidia's AD103 from the AD104 rather than AMD's Navi 31 (215-145000146) from the Navi 31 (215-145000156), with the first one being the XTX and the second one the XT (thank God for Techpowerup's databse).

Makes sense when you consider a 6900XT had msrp of $1000 and a 6800XT had msrp of $650 for like 10-15% performance difference vs 7900XTX msrp of $1000 and 7900XT msrp of $900. It's like how a 4090 is selling at a faster rate than 3090 because a 3080 had an msrp of $700 vs 3090 had an msrp of $1500 for 10-15% extra performance compared to 4080 $1200 and 4090 $1600 with a 20-30% performance gap.

That would be pretty bad if they combined it. 7900XTX is only at 0.23%. For comparison, a 4060 that came out a bit over 2 months ago already matched it in steams hardware survey. If it's combined, than the % would be even worse.

While I get your point, it's not exactly the best comparison possible given that the xx60 series are always the most popular Nvidia cards, followed by the xx50 one, even if the performance jump this time around isn't exactly great.

I'm the 1 dude on that list with a 3070 Laptop on Steam

3060 made it to the top spot... but the big jump (including some other, older xx60 and xx70 GPUs plus a big one for Intel CPUs) makes me wary it's again some cybercafes in Asia getting overcounted

Yeah, just look at the Chinese language jump from 26.8% to 32.2% within a month... I'll skip this month.

Probably for the best.

The same thing happened in March AFAIK, so nothing new. It even has the same concurrent peak of 6-core i5s.

That being said, the peak of the 30/6000 series is likely still ahead of us.

Steam released their new survey numbers.

The good: Some hardware finally got their own entries, drastically reducing the amount of "DX8" GPUs
The bad: Chinese Cybercafes got even more overcounted than in the last entry, with an uptick of over 13% in simplified Chinese compared to last month.
The Ugly: Iris XE Graphics are a new entry with 1.41% market share. Are those only iGPUs or does this also include the Alchemist GPUs?

Yeah, I saw that too.

Nevertheless I tried to figure out, how big the hardware base is for Alan Wake 2.

According to the October 2023 survey data, 41% of the systems surveyed would already meet the recommended system requirements (RTX 3060 or RX 6600 XT). Since the RTX 2070 Super has similar results in Alan Wake 2, I also included it and RTX 2080/Super/Ti. That would be around 80 million gaming PCs.

According to the August 2023 survey data (before the Cybercafe problem), 25% of the systems surveyed should meet these recommended system requirements (RTX 3060 or RX 6600 XT). That would be around 50 million gaming PCs.

The official minimum requirements start with a RTX 2060 or RX 6600, but according to Digital Foundry, GTX 1660 Ti (with Mesh shaders) and RX 5700 (with Primitive shaders) are also okay.

With these GPUs (or better) included according to the October 2023 survey data, 60% of the systems surveyed would already meet the minimum system requirements. That would be around 120 million gaming PCs. 

According to the August 2023 survey data (before the Cybercafe problem), 47% of the systems surveyed should meet these minimum system requirements (RTX 3060 or RX 6600 XT). That would be around 95 million gaming PCs.