Nvidia nonetheless appears to be the pinnacle honcho in the case of PC graphics know-how. In reality, if the current Steam survey is to be believed, it reveals group inexperienced’s merchandise seem like most popular in the case of gaming.

For those who head over to the Steam {hardware} survey web page, you may see that the Nvidia RTX 3060 has now taken the highest spot throughout all video playing cards. Not solely is it prime, however it jumped up from 4.87% to six.27% since August and has knocked the GTX 1650 down one place.

In reality, Nvidia GPUs are just about dominating once more, in accordance with these outcomes. The primary 11 within the “All Video Playing cards” class are from Nvidia, with the primary AMD Radeon card showing twelfth. Intel doesn’t get a glance in till place 15.

What’s the deal?

There may very well be plenty of components as to why the RTX 3060 is now the popular graphics card towards the nonetheless standard (although a lot older) GTX 1650. A report from PC Gamer says it’s possible right down to the value of the 3060 dropping considerably, particularly in a post-pandemic and a time by which cryptomining doesn’t appear to be as fierce.

We’re additionally beginning to see some newer (or fairly present) technology GPUs cropping up now, although issues just like the RTX 4090 have fallen barely. Contemplating Steam barely registered any current-gen {hardware}, possibly this can be a signal that individuals are beginning to improve.

After all, this survey shouldn’t be essentially the definitive method to discover out what PC customers have of their rigs. After all, it’s going to offer a fairly substantial determine, however not everybody will probably be utilizing Steam. I do know. Bizarre, proper?