In a nutshell: The outcomes of February’s Steam survey are right here. Final month was one other good one for Nvidia’s Lovelace playing cards; after the RTX 4090 grew to become the primary 4000-series to interrupt into the principle GPU chart in January, two extra entries from the costly lineup have joined the flagship: the RTX 4070 Ti and the RTX 4080. But once more, nevertheless, the RTX 3060 and its laptop computer variant have been the month’s finest performers by far.
The RTX 4090 made it into sufficient survey contributors’ machines in January to maneuver into the principle GPU chart, making it the primary Ada Lovelace card to take action. Not surprisingly, it solely took a couple of weeks for the RTX 4080 and RTX 4070 Ti to do the identical factor. The previous was the sixth high performer on the survey, present in 0.20% of machines, whereas the RTX 4070 Ti wasn’t far behind: eighth place with a 0.18% share.
February’s top-performing GPUs amongst Steam survey contributors
The largest user-share will increase have been as soon as once more discovered within the RTX 3000 sequence. The RTX 3060 topped the chart, adopted by its laptop computer model in second and the Ti variant in fifth. The RTX 3070, 3050, and 3070 Ti additionally did properly, highlighting the variety of individuals choosing these cheaper and nonetheless highly effective GPUs. One outlier is the RTX 2060 in third, possible attributable to many of those playing cards being obtainable for low costs on public sale websites.
The GTX 1650 stays the most well-liked GPU amongst Steam survey contributors because it knocked the GTX 1060 off the highest spot in November. There’s nonetheless no signal of AMD’s Radeon 7000 playing cards, although they launched later than Lovelace. Group pink’s best-performing card of the month was the AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT, which noticed its person share develop by simply 0.01%
Elsewhere, February was Intel’s flip to make positive aspects within the CPU part, albeit solely fractionally (0.04%), giving it a 67.17% share in comparison with AMD’s 32.8%.
Home windows 11 retains discovering its approach onto extra Steam customers’ machines on the expense of Home windows 10. The most recent OS now has a 32.06% share after leaping 1.73% final month. This development is repeating globally: Home windows 11 reached its largest-ever international market share in January, hitting 18.1%. Home windows 10, in distinction, has seen its share fall from 82.4% in December 2021 to 68.8% in the identical month.
Little else has modified on the survey – will the Oculus Quest 2 ever get replaced as the highest VR headset? – although it is fascinating to see that whereas English remains to be the most well-liked language, it fell -1.60% as Simplified Chinese language elevated by 2.47%.
