Is the GeForce RTX 3070 the most desired video card of the moment?

Despite the lack of video cards has reached discouraging levels, above all expectations, the last Steam Hardware and Software survey – the most popular marketplace among PC gamers – tells us that the video card showing a increase in diffusion the higher the GeForce RTX 3070, with a + 0.17% between February to March.

The RTX 3070 is an ideal GPU for gaming at resolution 1440p with high details even in the heaviest games, and maybe go up to 4K in the lighter titles: on the other hand it has performance more or less similar to the RTX 2080 Ti, the flagship of the last generation of Nvidia.

Sure, with one 1.29% share we are far from representing the most widespread card among the players who participated in the survey, with the palm still firmly in the hand of the GTX 1060 with 9.46%, followed by the GTX 1050 Ti (6.83%), the GTX 1650 (5.34%) and the RTX 2060 (5.04%) which remains the gateway to the world of ray tracing – we will see in the coming months if the RTX 3060 will have even better luck.

Of the GPUs mentioned, it is interesting to see how the share of GTX 1650 and RTX 2060 has risen by 0.15% and 0.10% respectively, with Nvidia evidently producing these GPUs to buffer the shortage situation. According to the survey, Nvidia has a player share of nearly 75.5%, with AMD following with 16% and Intel with its GPUs with integrated graphics at 8.3%.

If we turn to the processors, we see that AMD gains further ground on Intel, with + 0.46% from February to March for a share of 28.97%, versus about 71% of Intel. However, if we look at the progression, it is interesting to see how Intel regained ground in December, climbing to 75% in the perhaps darkest period of the Ryzen CPU shortage, while AMD is back to gnaw market share with the new year.