Quote Originally Posted by madcho View Post
Steam data is great and interesting.

But watch more in detail.

In GPUs the most DX11 are ATI. 460 and 480 numbers are very low to 5870 and 5770, and even 4870.

There is a lot of nvidia GPUs ? why, because most of nvidias GPUs are old.

The most 3D graphic GPU ( in all gpu even dx9 ) used is 48xx with 7.21% of all steam user. And You can see 57xx and 58xx are 2.98% and 2.82%. ( 7 & 8th in order even it's mainstream and high end, old than less a year. ).

The 460 is not in top 50 ... so ...

I think evrybody that use a less 18 months GPU mainstream or high end is build at 80% by ATI. It's just a reality.
yeah i do wish steam survey gave out ALOT more info. its incredible as is, but some of us just want an excel sheet with all 100 million computers lol

we do know that intel has like 50% of the gpu market share for units, and we know those are all IGPs, so if we take the intel number alone at 6.22%, its pretty safe to say that 10-14% of all steam users are on IGP computers. we sure cant include them as "gaming" machines just yet (fusion chips coming out i hope puts a swift end to this)

also looking at some of the most popular games, may of them can be run on dx9 gpus from 5-8 years ago. (counter strike 1.6 is the 3rd most popular game on there taking up about 20% of the current gamers!!!)

steam is a great way to look at a very big overall picture, but the details in depth are a little random feeling. its pretty tough to try and determine things like "how many people who play newer graphics intensive games have idle cpu cores, or spare gpu power"

based on an article about a development team that was switching to using steam for their distribution, i think theres alot more to the hardware survey for business use than what we get for free