{"id":20502,"date":"2022-12-02T12:45:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T12:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/02\/a-new-graphics-card-tops-the-steam-survey-for-the-first-time-since-2018\/"},"modified":"2022-12-02T12:45:41","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T12:45:41","slug":"a-new-graphics-card-tops-the-steam-survey-for-the-first-time-since-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/02\/a-new-graphics-card-tops-the-steam-survey-for-the-first-time-since-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"A new graphics card tops the Steam survey for the first time since 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What just happened?<\/strong> The latest Steam survey has arrived with a big change: a graphics card has knocked the GTX 1060 off the top spot for the first time since January 2018. November was also an excellent period for AMD CPUs, which reversed a months-long trend of declines to grab an almost 4% user share back from Intel. <\/p>\n

The most popular graphics card among Steam survey<\/a> participants had been the GTX 1060 since it replaced the GTX 750 almost five years ago. But the Pascal card has now been replaced by a Turing entry, though it’s not the RTX 2060 as some might have expected\u2014that card lost users last month\u2014it’s the budget GTX 1650 that first arrived in 2019.<\/p>\n

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The most popular graphics cards among Steam survey participants in November<\/p>\n

November was another month that showed signs of conservative consumer spending<\/a>. Barring a couple of exceptions, the top-performing GPUs (below) were all on the cheaper end of the scale. The GTX 1650 was second with a 0.66% increase, while the RTX 3050, GTX 1050\/Ti, GTX 1650 Ti, and GTX 1660 Ti all made significant gains. The AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT, which was recently on sale for $99, also did well.<\/p>\n

Not for the first time, the RTX 3060 Laptop GPU was the month’s top performer, but the desktop version lost -2.06% of its user share; November wasn’t a good month for the more expensive desktop cards.<\/p>\n

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The top-performing graphics cards among Steam survey participants in November<\/p>\n

Moving onto CPUs, AMD finally saw its fortunes turn around after four straight months of losing users to Intel. Team red snatched a 3.88% share from Chipzilla, moving it back above the 30% overall milestone\u2014could the Zen 4 powered Ryzen 7000 series finally be starting to sell well after its slow start<\/a>, possibly thanks to the recent reductions<\/a>?<\/p>\n

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Elsewhere in the survey, Windows 11 returned to its usual state of regularly increasing users following an uncharacteristic decline in October. Microsoft’s newest OS was up 4.61% in November as Windows 10 fell -3.31%, pushing the former closer to the 30% overall mark. And while it has been hanging on for a while now, Windows 7’s share fell to just 1.88% overall.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n