Valve now experiences that the RX 7900 XTX is first AMD graphics card of the present era to grace the Steam {hardware} survey. Nonetheless, regardless of it making the minimize over 9 months after its launch again in December 2022, its market share remains to be low.
The truth is, AMD’s graphics playing cards solely take up 8.68% of Steam players, based on PC Gamer, although that quantity solely contains AMD discrete playing cards which excludes built-in playing cards. For those who embrace AMD playing cards that would have been grouped collectively within the 10.69% ‘Different’ class, then that will imply AMD has a couple of 10% share at finest. In the meantime, Nvidia holds an enormous 75% market share of playing cards registered with Steam.
Remember that, whereas the Steam {hardware} survey is a really helpful information, it’s not good because it isn’t a completely managed and adjusted survey. As an illustration, PC Gamer recounted a previous incident during which the variety of RTX 3060 homeowners jumped to “10% of customers in April earlier than returning to a extra believable 4.66% in Might.”
AMD could also be in bother
Contemplating that the AMD RX 7900 XTX is without doubt one of the finest graphics playing cards available on the market proper now, it’s little shock that it made it on the survey. However the truth that it’s not within the prime spot (that honor goes to a generic ‘AMD Radeon Graphics’ entry, which doubtless covers built-in GPUs) coupled with the low market share exhibits how lengthy of a method to go AMD needs to be correctly aggressive with Nvidia.
Nonetheless, Nvidia’s current focus shift to the AI market, together with its middling gross sales for the 8GB RTX 4060 Ti and the shadow drop of the 16GB RTX 4060 Ti, it appears that evidently Group Inexperienced might presumably be giving Group Purple an opportunity to squeeze in with its personal choices. There’s additionally the truth that the AI craze might trigger GPU shortages which, if AMD takes benefit of it, might capitalize on it by having extra provide than Nvidia.
There’s additionally the truth that the RX 7900 XTX has overheating points which were hitting a few of its reference playing cards, although third-party playing cards would not be affected by this.
Regardless, AMD wants to think about a correct technique with the intention to deal with its lack of market share. Nvidia, regardless of its present repositioning and troubles, remains to be beating AMD by a landslide and Group Purple wants a strong technique to fight that huge lead.
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