There are some problems with the Steam survey. First, is it an unbiased representation of all the gamers all over the world? In other words, is every gamer in the world equally likely to have a steam account and be included in the survery, regardless of where he lives and what rig he has and how many games he can afford? Very unlikely. Second, how is SLI/Crossfire being calculated? Seems like such systems are treated exactly like different persons having single cards. So the number of people having high end cards would be to high from this side, otoh people with slower cards but in SLI/crossfire are not counted in. Add in the non-strict definition of what high end is and you can't really determine how many gamers actualy do have such rigs. Thirdly, looking at the plethora of weird multimonitor resolutions it would appear having different bezel compensation settings results in a different resolution being registred, which dilutes the scores there. Bottom line: I wouldn't be so hasty with the conclusions.
My point is, I am not against benching at 1080p with 8xAA. I always look with interest at the data points, if a review provides them (like hardwarecanucks does). But if that is the only data point provided, then I smell a marketing rat. There are lies, damn lies and statistics.
Originally Posted by DarthShader
There are some problems with the Steam survey. First, is it an unbiased representation of all the gamers all over the world? In other words, is every gamer in the world equally likely to have a steam account and be included in the survery, regardless of where he lives and what rig he has and how many games he can afford? Very unlikely. Second, how is SLI/Crossfire being calculated? Seems like such systems are treated exactly like different persons having single cards. So the number of people having high end cards would be to high from this side, otoh people with slower cards but in SLI/crossfire are not counted in. Add in the non-strict definition of what high end is and you can't really determine how many gamers actualy do have such rigs. Thirdly, looking at the plethora of weird multimonitor resolutions it would appear having different bezel compensation settings results in a different resolution being registred, which dilutes the scores there. Bottom line: I wouldn't be so hasty with the conclusions.
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