Forget the RTX 4000 series, the RTX 3060 is the gift that keeps on giving as Nvidia's GPU tops Steam Hardware survey again for October

There’s bully news and bad news for Nvidia successful nan latest Steam Hardware Survey, which shows its RTX 3060 GPU taking nan lead arsenic nan most celebrated GPU successful October, beating nan RTX 4000 bid laptop GPU - 2 years aft nan RTX 4000 bid launch.

As spotted by VideoCardz, nan 3060 is utilized by 7.46% of PC gamers (who took portion successful nan survey). This mightiness travel arsenic a astonishment considering nan property of nan GPU, but nan RTX 3060 has been successful this position for a agelong while - July saw a percent stock of 5.88%, pinch a 1.58% summation starring into October.

While Team Green’s RTX 4000 desktop bid has enjoyed captious acclaim (many look successful our roundup of nan best graphics cards money tin buy), nan study suggests gamers don’t look to beryllium truthful keen - nan RTX 4060 laptop GPU is nan 2nd astir celebrated amongst Steam users, pinch nan range’s high-end graphics cards obscurity adjacent nan apical ten. It appears that nan RTX 3000 bid still has a batch of life near successful it - and that mightiness not beryllium awesome news for Nvidia, which would very apt for illustration its customers to upgrade to nan newer GPUs.

Why aren’t immoderate of nan RTX 4000 bid desktop GPUs leading?

As we know, Nvidia’s RTX 4000 bid GPUs (specifically nan RTX 4080 and 4090) are powerhouse options for high-level capacity crossed aggregate games. Despite this, nan pricing is nan clear dealbreaker, pinch nan 4090’s value tag remaining stubbornly high.

With nan study besides revealing 1080p arsenic nan astir celebrated solution Steam users crippled at, it almost single-handedly explains why Nvidia’s latest GPU scope remains comparatively unloved by Steam users successful position of usage versus nan 3000 series. Acquiring a high-end GPU for illustration nan aforementioned 4080 for a 1080p show would beryllium overkill, truthful if you’re gaming connected a 1080p show nan RTX 3060 would beryllium a overmuch amended choice.

This besides calls Frame Generation and DLSS 3 into mobility - RTX 3000 bid users cannot usage this technology, but if nan 3060 is still nan astir popular, past possibly Team Green’s upscaling tech isn’t arsenic basal arsenic galore whitethorn judge (at slightest astatine 1080p anyway).

It’s important to statement that nan Steam Hardware Survey results aren’t definitive by immoderate means, arsenic it only applies to PC gamers who opt into nan study - but, it does springiness america a bully thought of nan scenery of PC gaming hardware since truthful galore gamers usage Steam.

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