TL;DR: It’s Steam survey time. Valve’s month-to-month report on the {hardware} and software program present in customers’ machines reveals that May was one other glorious interval for Nvidia’s Ampere collection, with the RTX 3080 and the RTX 3070 the highest two best-performing playing cards. There was additionally motive for AMD to have a good time after the Radeon RX 6800 XT grew to become the newest RDNA 2 card to affix the primary GPU chart.
May noticed RTX 3080 customers improve 0.24% amongst Steam survey contributors. It was adopted by the RTX 3070 (+0.19%), whereas the RTX 3060 was fourth (+0.18%). Joining the inexperienced group within the top-ten performers’ listing was the Radeon RX 6800 XT, which entered with a 0.15% share. It now sits alongside the opposite RDNA 2 playing cards—the Radeon RX 6600, Radeon RX 6600 XT, Radeon RX 6700 XT, and Radeon RX 6900 XT—in the primary chart, all of which skilled person will increase final month.
The ten hottest playing cards stay unchanged from April. The high GPU, the GTX 1060 GPU, added customers final month, cementing its place within the primary place that it is held for over 4 years.
The rise within the variety of folks utilizing Nvidia’s and AMD’s newest playing cards displays the trade’s long-awaited return to close normality. Cards are inching ever nearer to MSRP as availability improves and crypto mining turns into much less engaging.
Dr. Lisa Su will probably smile on the CPU chart, too. AMD took one other slice of the pie final month, slowly however absolutely closing the hole on Intel with one other 1.24% rise in customers. Team Blue nonetheless holds a substantial lead, although, due to its 67.19% share.
Elsewhere, Windows 11 is now simply 0.41% away from being discovered on one in 5 customers’ PCs. More than half of the contributors have 16 GB of RAM of their machines, and 1 / 4 personal video playing cards with 8 GB of VRAM. The Oculus Quest 2, in the meantime, is 2% away from taking a 50% share of the VR headset section.