March Steam Survey Shows RTX 3000 Series Dominance, AMD CPUs Lose Ground for Second Month in a Row

The latest Steam hardware and software survey has come with good news for Intel and Nvidia. For the first time in years, Intel has seen its CPU share increase among participants for the second month in a row.while Ampere cards had their best run to date.

Seeing AMD cut Intel’s lead in the processor section of the survey has become an expected trend of late. The red team hit the 30% mark in May, and although there were a couple of months where their share fell, they always bounced back right away. But these last two months there was a decrease of -0.04% in February and a fall of -0.26% in Marchconstituting the first two-month period that AMD continuously lost. Ryzen maker is now at 30.66% as Intel gets closer to regaining its 70% share.

Moving on to GPUs, last month more people started using the GTX 1060 (0.19%), cementing its place at the top spot it has held since January 2018. However, the RTX 2060 continues to breathe down his neck. The Turing card posted the third-largest increase last month (0.24%), pushing it past the GTX 1050 Ti and into third place in the main GPU table.

March was a very good month for the RTX 3000 series

March was also the best month yet for Ampere cards. Six of the top ten uploaded cards were from Nvidia’s latest RTX 3000 series: The RTX 3060 led the pack (up 0.56%), followed by the RTX 3070. The 3060 Ti, 3080, 3070 Ti, and 3050 were the rest of the top risers. Could this be a reflection of graphics cards getting closer to their retail price as availability improves?

LUnfortunately for AMD, the Radeon RX 6700 XT remains the only RDNA 2 card in the main table, thanks to its 0.23% share. Last month it was only up 0.01% and currently sits between the GT 720M and the RX 590 series.

Windows 11 is also close to being the most popular OS

Otherwise, Windows 11 continues to slowly but inexorably erode Windows 10’s lead with a 1.25% increase in March, bringing it to 16.84%, and six is ​​just about the most common number of physical CPU cores among users., coming within 0.10% of the long-time most popular quad-core CPU option. Most entrants have 8GB of VRAM on their graphics cards, over 1TB of storage and 16GB of RAM, and if you’re using a VR headset, it’s probably the Oculus Quest 2.

Please note that participation in the Steam survey is optional. All these data correspond to those of the users who agreed to participate and shared their data with the platform voluntarily.. Therefore, we can understand that they are a good indicator of what is happening in the industry in general. Steam collects user data globally, which is why these types of statistics are quite reliable.

And you, what do you think of these Steam surveys? Is the data reliable or not?

Source: Steam, Techspot