AMD's RX 6600 is the most popular Red Team GPU among Steam gamers, by a whisker — but no Radeon card makes the top 30 list
AMD's RX 6600 is the most popular Red Team GPU among Steam gamers, by a whisker — but no Radeon card makes the top 30 list
RDNA 3 seems to be nowhere in sight!
Although the 6600 also sold independently through retail, it was primarily popular among prebuilt gaming PC manufacturers. That doesn't mean it was particularly popular among gaming enthusiasts, you know in picking their favorite model, although it could have very well been, but the Steam Leaderboards are more about what prebuilt gaming PC manufacturers are selling the most of.
I bought a 6650 since it was the best price / performance card available at the time, and by a huge margin, which was important since this was in 2022 with its still crazy GPU prices.
I would say it's a mix of pre-built and DIY builds and notebooks (which I assume so the majority of Steam users).
I would argue that this is effect partially due to the finer segmentation of amd gpu models in each generation. The wider the spread, the harder it is for an individual model to get a high rank.
Also amd only recently started making competitive gpus and there are lots of 900/1000 gen nvidia cards still in use.
But not having a single model in the top 30 Stream rankings.... That's really rough.
I guess yeah. Looking at the fact that some intel models made it in tho, it looks like laptops and prebuilts are a huge part of this ranking.
I think if you were to just look at direct sales for dedicated gpus, amd would look better.
Half the "gamers" I am friends with play CoD on nVIDIA laptops, with a couple that wanted more serious with a PC and switched to AMD.
I personally have bounced between the two with no bias over many years. I just get what's best at the time and don't care about the label on them. Right now, AMD offerings are a clear winner. It's a no-brainer.
And as things have gone, it'll be nVIDIA's turn again at some point.
It gets problematic for "AI" & raytracing stuff. The latter isn't so important for specifically 6600 cards but having to mess with ROCm and building programs to your specific model is absolutely no fun.
Glad I got my 6700 XT when I did... good card, great price. ... I did have to update my thermals, however.
I ended up with a 6600XT (somewhat rare card now, but it's a 6600 with a higher TDP) in my Linux rig. I was upgrading from a GTX 970.
I have been quite happy with performance since I only play at 1080p, though 8GB of VRAM can be problematic in flight simming.
Model aside, definitely worth the AMD switch on Linux, though.
I more amazed the most used gpu on steam still isn't enough to crack the top 30. I assumed Steam represented most all PC gamers. Has AI really affected commercial work stations that much where most companies are buying work stations with high end gpu's? Or thst my understand that workstations generally didn't require anything more than an integrated gpu at most.