RTX 3060 Drops From First Place in Newest Steam {Hardware} Survey

Certainly one of Nvidia’s Finest graphics playing cards, the GeForce RTX 3060, has dropped from first place within the newest Steam {Hardware} Survey (opens in new tab), falling to 3rd place in only one month. Effectively, kind of. There was some very uncommon knowledge in final month’s Steam {Hardware} Survey, which triggered a number of Nvidia GPUs to spike terribly excessive in adoption charges. Issues have apparently been corrected, with the affected GPUs returning to regular.

The adoption charges, notably for the RTX 3060 (desktop and laptop computer variants), GTX 1060, RTX 2060, and GTX 1650 modified drastically in Steam’s {Hardware} Survey throughout the month of April (which studies on GPU market share in March). The RTX 3060 (desktop) sat on the prime, changing the GTX 1650 as the preferred GPU amongst Steam avid gamers and garnering a whopping 6.31% enhance in “market share” in only a single month’s time.

The second place place was additionally shaken up with the RTX 2060 changing the GTX 1060, garnering a formidable (and extremely unlikely) 3.42% uptick in reputation amongst Steam avid gamers, with the GTX 1060 falling to 3rd place consequently. However the GTX 1060 additionally noticed an unusually excessive 2.57% uptick in adoption charges as properly. Filling out the remainder of the highest 5 GPUs in April have been the RTX 3070 and RTX 3060 Ti, which each had outlier will increase of two.52% and a pair of.14%, respectively. In the meantime, customers with RTX 3060 Laptop computer GPUs noticed an enormous drop to eighth place, the place beforehand (earlier than April) it was in third place.

This was all fairly uncommon, because the month-to-month GPU modifications usually range by lower than 0.5% within the Steam {Hardware} Survey. Will increase and reduces of a number of % clearly indicated one thing went very unsuitable with Steam’s knowledge assortment. With that situation fastened, we’re greeted by equally massive modifications in the wrong way for Could’s outcomes.

Steam Survey Outcomes for Could 2023

The Steam {Hardware} Survey for Could (which appears at GPU market share for April) has reshuffled all of the affected GPUs again to their regular hierarchy from earlier than April. Meaning the GTX 1650 is as soon as extra in first place, with the GTX 1060 in second. There are a number of different modifications since we final reported on the Steam {Hardware} Survey in February.

The RTX 3060 desktop card now sits in third place, with the RTX 3060 Laptop computer GPU proper under it, and the RTX 2060 takes the fifth spot. Earlier than (in February), the RTX 3060 desktop card wasn’t even within the prime 5 checklist, with the RTX 3060 laptop computer GPU sitting in third place, RTX 2060 in fourth, and the GTX 1050 Ti in fifth.

Nevertheless, these rankings can range by GPU technology, as Steam lumps sure cell and desktop GPUs collectively (e.g. GTX 1650 consists of laptops and desktops), whereas newer fashions are damaged aside (e.g. RTX 3060 and RTX 3060 Laptop computer GPU). Combining all outcomes for a selected mannequin quantity (so all RTX 3060 SKUs together with desktop, cell, non-Ti, and Ti elements), the RTX 3060 collection is by far the preferred with a market share of 13.44%. Second place goes to the GTX 1650 collection at 8.83%, then GTX 1660 collection at 6.93%, GTX 2060 collection at 6.34%, and RTX 3070 collection at 6.12%.

By way of generational reputation, the RTX graphics playing cards proceed to carry an enormous lead over the competitors, with the 30-series coming in with 29% market share and the RTX 20-series with 11% market share. Unsurprisingly, RTX 40-series in the meantime sits at simply 1.61% complete, which itself is double final month’s determine. AMD’s numerous GPUs aren’t doing practically as properly, with 2.97% amongst all RX 6000-series playing cards, 1.42% for all RX 5000-series elements, and three.38% for the RX 500-series. All Vega-series GPUs (which incorporates built-in elements) account for two.03%. AMD’s newest RX 7000-series stays MIA, so far as the Steam {Hardware} Survey is anxious.