The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 remains to be the most well-liked graphics card amongst Steam customers, in keeping with the shop’s newest hardware survey, with 14.05% of all customers utilizing it as their card of alternative. Nvidia’s outdated GTX 750Ti isn’t far behind, although, as that’s nonetheless being utilized by 13.05% of customers, making it the second hottest gaming card for the month of February.
It’s no marvel, actually, given current graphics card prices, however when 76.47% of Steam customers are nonetheless gaming at 1920×1080, you additionally don’t really want far more to get a flawless Full HD expertise. The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050Ti can also be a fantastic alternative for 1080p gaming – in keeping with our personal best graphics cards checklist, anyway – however that individual card solely ranked fourth final month, making up 11.47% of Steam customers behind the trusty GTX 960, which devoured up 11.89%.
Admittedly, the variety of 1080p individuals has dropped barely since final month (albeit by simply 1.51%), with the largest acquire truly being at 1366×768, the second hottest gaming decision for February, which jumped by 0.63% to eight.2%. That appears like extra persons are taking to gaming on their laptops than spending time in entrance of a monitor, if you happen to ask me.
The variety of 4K players additionally elevated final month by 0.08%, however they nonetheless solely make up 0.49% of all Steam customers – and so they’re in all probability precisely the identical 0.47% of people that truly personal an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080Ti graphics card.
Poor outdated AMD, alternatively, didn’t rank with any of its new RX 500 graphics playing cards, and even its Radeon RX Vega 64 or RX Vega 56 graphics playing cards. It did, nonetheless, see a rise within the variety of individuals utilizing AMD processors in February, which grew 1.06% to 9.09%. Intel, in the meantime, noticed a 1.03% loss to 90.91%, suggesting AMD’s new Ryzen Vega processors could also be doing the enterprise for them.
Elsewhere within the survey, the Oculus Rift has lastly overtaken the HTC Vive as the most well-liked VR headset, claiming 0.14% of all Steam customers in comparison with Vive’s 0.13% – or 0.15% if you happen to rely the additional 0.01% of individuals nonetheless utilizing an Oculus Rift DK2 headset. Windows Mixed Reality headsets, in the meantime, are a flat 0.00%. Awww.
