Here we have more gaming platform survey results Steam. In November there was an upheaval in the position of the most popular graphics card. This title has long been held by the GeForce GTX 1060, which is already over 6 years old. In November, however, it fell by a whopping 1.85 percentage points and now has a representation of 5.77%, which is good enough for second position. The top spot is now occupied by the slightly newer model GeForce GTX 1650, which grew by 0.66pp and now has a 6.27% share. However, what’s interesting is that the GTX 1650 is a weaker card than the GTX 1060, which it replaced in the review. The RTX 2060 remains in third place, however, it too is down significantly by 1.46 percentage points to 4.64%.
Among the interesting shifts, we also have the fourth position. The GeForce RTX 3060 mobile laptop improved nicely by 1.24 pp to 4.63%, on the other hand, the desktop version of this card saw the biggest drop of all, by 2.06 pp to the resulting 3.41% . He falls from fourth to sixth position.
If we look at cards from manufacturers other than Nvidia, the integrated chip AMD Radeon Graphics has the maximum in 13th position with a share of 1.93% (+0.3 pp), among desktop cards the Radeon RX 580 is in 21st st place with 1 . share of 2%. The most popular Radeon of the RX 6000 series is the RX 6700 XT with a 0.38% share (followed very closely by the RX 6600 XT and RX 6600). As for Intel, it came to us in 17th place with Intel Iris Xe with a 1.57% share. Nvidia has a 75.69% stake, AMD 15.15% and Intel 8.94%.
In the processor category, Intel leads with a representation of 66.65%, second place belongs to AMD with a share of 33.35%. The largest representation has 6-core CPUs with a share of 33.52% (decrease of 3.61 percentage points). Surprisingly, the 4-core processors improved again to 30.07% (+1.12%), the 8-cores also did well with a share of 19.19% (+0.52 pp). Of the other types we reach only single-digit percentages, i.e. 3.29% for 12-core processors (+0.2bps), 1.57% for 14-core processors (+0.54bps) and 1.42% for 10-core processors (+0.13 pp). 16 cores have not yet crossed the percentage threshold and have 0.85% (+0.15 pp).