With the month of September properly underway, Steam’s {Hardware} Survey has been up to date with information from the month of August. Probably the most noteworthy change within the newest report is the looks of Nvidia’s RTX 4060, one of many finest graphics playing cards based mostly on its cheap $299 asking worth.
For its debut on the Steam survey, the RTX 4060’s market share is a fairly first rate 0.23%. That will not sound like rather a lot, however that is the very same market share as AMD’s Radeon RX 7900 XTX that launched a full seven months earlier than the RTX 4060. Regardless of widespread considerations with the 128-bit interface and 8GB of VRAM, it seems the RTX 4060 is already gaining traction amongst Steam avid gamers.
This is not stunning, on condition that the GeForce RTX 4060 is arguably one among Nvidia’s most cost-effective RTX 40 collection graphics playing cards so far. In our evaluation of the cardboard, we highlighted its good price-to-performance ratio, providing 22% higher efficiency than its predecessor (the RTX 3060 12GB) for $30 cheaper — $299 vs $239. It is not good, providing one of many lowest generational efficiency uplifts of any 60-class card, and simply 8GB of VRAM — vs 12GB on the 3060. Nonetheless, the RTX 4060 is the one RTX 40 collection graphics card to value lower than its predecessor.
For higher or for worse, Nvidia’s RTX 4060 is arguably the among the best funds choices amongst present graphics playing cards, notably for avid gamers preferring to remain within the Nvidia ecosystem.
One other attention-grabbing level of reference is that the earlier technology RTX 3060, which now reigns as the preferred GPU on Steam (counting each desktop and laptop computer GPUs), debuted on the survey two months after it launched in February 2021, with a market share of 0.17%. By that metric, Nvidia is already forward of the place it was final time.
Apart from the addition of the RTX 4060, the August replace reveals Nvidia’s whole RTX-40 collection market share amongst Steam avid gamers at 5.66%, together with cellular GPU variants. That is a 1.94% web improve in only one month, or alternatively a 52% relative enchancment. Whereas slightly below six % of all the Steam survey may not appear to be an enormous quantity, it does present that adoption of Nvidia’s newest technology Ada Lovelace structure is continuing at an honest fee. On the identical ten months after the RTX 30-series launch, these GPUs comprised 4.35% of the Steam survey.
AMD’s market share in the meantime continues to look moderately poor. A few of that will merely be Valve failing to tug out information on sure GPUs (solely the RX 7900 XTX reveals up on the survey), which places RDNA 3 at 0.23% complete. The earlier technology RX 6000-series complete market share is not nice both, consisting of two.95% for the August survey, together with cellular GPUs.
These figures actually present how far more widespread Nvidia’s GPUs are, regardless of how aggressive AMD’s GPUs could also be, or how poorly the playing cards is perhaps obtained by reviewers and influencers. A part of the hole additionally stems from the truth that AMD’s discrete GPU laptop computer market share (i.e., not counting built-in options) is extraordinarily low.
Whereas AMD’s RDNA 3 graphics playing cards barely present up within the newest survey, we’ll must see what occurs within the coming months. Hopefully Valve will escape information on the RX 7900 XT, RX 7900 GRE, RX 7600, and now the brand new RX 7800 XT and 7700 XT that simply launched. It’s going to clearly take time for these final two to look on Steam’s survey, however we suspect there are an affordable variety of 7900 XT and 7600 playing cards within the palms of avid gamers now.
Additionally nonetheless MIA: Intel Arc Alchemist. These have been out for over a 12 months now, not less than in some elements of the world. Up to now, neither the desktop nor cellular Arc variants have made an look on the Steam survey, regardless of nabbing a reasonably important chunk of the world GPU market in accordance with JPR. Possibly all of these Arc GPUs are ending up in enterprise PCs?
Unsurprisingly, the highest 10 hottest graphics playing cards on the Steam {hardware} survey have barely modified, with the GTX 1650, RTX 3060, GTX 1060, RTX 3060 Laptop computer GPU, and RTX 2060 making up the highest 5. The remainder of the highest ten consists of principally budget-friendly Nvidia GPUs from the previous six years, just like the GTX 1050 Ti and RTX 3050.
If the Steam {Hardware} Survey has taught us something, it is that Nvidia’s 60-class playing cards inevitably make it into the highest 10 sooner or later. Which means about 2.5% of the full market, so RTX 4060’s presence might want to develop by an order of magnitude earlier than it could attain the highest ten. It will likely be attention-grabbing to see how shortly the RTX 4060 can accomplish that feat.