With the month of September well underway, Steam’s Hardware Survey has been updated with August data. The most notable change in the latest report is the debut of Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060, one of the top graphics cards at the low price of $299.
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 has a market share of 0.23% on its first appearance in the Steam poll. That may not seem like much, but it is the same market share as AMD’s Radeon RX 7900 XTX, which was released seven months before the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060. Despite significant reservations about the 128-bit interface and 8GB of VRAM, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 appears to be gaining traction among Steam gamers.
Given that the GeForce Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 is undoubtedly one of Nvidia’s most affordable RTX 40 series graphics cards to date, this is not surprising.
We emphasised the card’s favourable price-to-performance ratio in our assessment, noting that it offers 22% more performance than its predecessor, the RTX 3060 12GB for $30 less money, or $299 vs. $239. It’s not perfect; it offers just 8GB of VRAM, compared to 12GB on the 3060, and one of the lowest generational performance increases of any 60-class card. The Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 is the only graphics card in the RTX 40 series that is less expensive than its predecessor, though.
For better or worse, Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 is one of the best budget options among current graphics cards, especially for players who like to stay within the Nvidia ecosystem.
Another noteworthy item to note is that the previous generation RTX 3060, which is now the most popular GPU on Steam including both desktop and laptop GPUs, debuted on the poll two months after its release in February 2021, with a market share of 0.17%. By that criteria, Nvidia has already surpassed its previous performance.
Aside from the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060, Nvidia’s overall RTX-40 series market share among Steam gamers is 5.66%, including mobile GPU variations, according to the August update. That’s a 1.94% net rise in a single month, or a 52% relative improvement. While slightly under 6% of the total Steam poll may not appear to be a large amount, it does demonstrate that Nvidia’s current generation Ada Lovelace architecture is being adopted at a reasonable rate. Those GPUs accounted for 4.35% of the Steam poll 10 months after the RTX 30-series debut.
AMD’s market share remains deplorable and it might be due to Valve’s failure to collect statistics on specific GPUs only the RX 7900 XTX appears in the poll, putting RDNA 3 at 0.23% overall. The previous generation RX 6000-series total market share is also low, at 2.95% in the August survey, including mobile GPUs.
While AMD’s RDNA 3 graphics cards are barely mentioned in the most recent survey, we’ll have to wait and watch what happens in the following months. Hopefully, Valve will release data on the RX 7900 XT, RX 7900 GRE, RX 7600, and now the newly released RX 7800 XT and 7700 XT. Those last two will certainly take time to emerge on Steam’s poll, but we believe there are a reasonable amount of 7900 XT and 7600 cards in gamers’ hands right now.
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