According to Steam’s latest hardware survey in July 2021, the number of users of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 is more than that of the AMD Radeon RX 6000 series combined. It is obvious that even if its price is high, if the performance reaches consumer satisfaction Level, and still get good sales results.
For a long time, AMD Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs have not appeared in the proportion of graphics cards surveyed by Steam hardware. However, Reddit netizen Skipan found that as long as you check the details of the DirectX / Vulken system, you can find the Radeon RX 6000 series GPU.
We found that the ratio of GeForce RTX 30 series GPUs in graphics cards is similar to the ratio of DirectX 12 system in DirectX / Vulken system details, so the latter is used as a reference benchmark.
Steam Hardware Survey July 2021 DirectX 12 system GPU ratio
| GPU | Percentage | sum |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 | 0.38% | 3.88% |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 | 0.88% | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 | 1.56% | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti | 0.42% | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 | 0.64% | |
| AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT | 0.08% | 0.35% |
| AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT | 0.10% | |
| AMD Radeon RX 6800 | 0.05% | |
| AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT | 0.12% |
It can be clearly seen from the data that the total user ratio of AMD Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs is only 0.35%, while NVIDIA only has a GeForce RTX 3090 accounting for 0.38%. You know, this is a price as high as US$1500. The proportion of other GPUs of the lower-priced GeForce RTX 30 series is naturally higher.
Since RTX 3080 Ti / RTX 3080 Ti was just listed in June, the proportion has not yet been included in the statistical table when the value is not high enough. However, looking at the current value of the latest generation of GPUs, NVIDIA’s share is as high as 91.73%, while AMD is only 8.27%, which is equivalent to only 1 in every 14 players choosing AMD Radeon RX 6000 series, and the rest are choosing GeForce RTX 30 series.
To reiterate, these values are not actual market sales percentages, only player statistics compiled by Steam. Steam currently has 130 million active users in total, and more than 26 million users will be online at the same time in May 2021.
From a practical point of view, both NVIDIA and AMD have encountered considerable trouble in meeting demand, but one thing is clear, the inventory of NVIDIA graphics cards supplied to players is much higher than that of AMD graphics cards. This is still in cryptocurrency. The situation under a large number of miners sweeping goods.
However, after NVIDIA began to supply LHR version of GeForce RTX 30 series GPUs with limited mining computing power, miners have given up on snapping up gaming graphics cards, and many governments have cracked down on cryptocurrencies, which has gradually reduced the price of graphics cards that have been pushed up for a long time. The inventory situation is also getting better.
Finally, although NVIDIA and AMD both have their own GPU strengths, such as ray tracing, DLSS, FSR, etc., and the cost performance has reached a certain level, the key to the success or failure of the final market is the supply. Unfortunately, neither of these two can meet the crazy demand, especially AMD.
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