Subj : AMDs RX 7900 XTX is finally in Steam hardware survey but hardly a
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Wed Aug 02 2023 19:00:03

AMDs RX 7900 XTX is finally in Steam hardware survey but hardly any gamers 
use it

Date:
Wed, 02 Aug 2023 17:57:21 +0000

Description:
The AMD RX 7900 XTX GPU has finally made it to Steam's hardware survey after 
nearly a year, but AMD is still in trouble.

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Valve now reports that the RX 7900 XTX is first AMD graphics card of the 
current generation to grace the Steam hardware survey. However, despite it 
making the cut over nine months after its release back in December 2022, its 
market share is still low. 

In fact, AMDs graphics cards only take up 8.68% of Steam gamers, according to 
PC Gamer , though that number only includes AMD discrete cards which excludes 
integrated cards. If you include AMD cards that could have been grouped 
together in the 10.69% Other category, then that would mean AMD has about a 
10% share at best. Meanwhile, Nvidia holds a massive 75% market share of 
cards registered with Steam. 

Keep in mind that, while the Steam hardware survey is a very useful guide, 
its not perfect since it isnt a fully controlled and adjusted survey. For 
instance, PC Gamer recounted a past incident in which the number of RTX 3060 
owners jumped to 10% of users in April before returning to a more plausible 
4.66% in May. AMD may be in trouble 

Considering that the AMD RX 7900 XTX is one of the best graphics cards on the 
market right now, its little surprise that it made it on the survey. But the 
fact that its not in the top spot (that honor goes to a generic AMD Radeon 
Graphics entry, which likely covers integrated GPUs) coupled with the low 
market percentage shows how long of a way to go AMD has to be properly 
competitive with Nvidia. 

However, looking at Nvidias recent focus shift to the AI market, along with 
its middling sales for the 8GB RTX 4060 Ti and the shadow drop of the 16GB 
RTX 4060 Ti , it seems that Team Green could possibly be giving Team Red a 
chance to squeeze in with its own offerings. Theres also the fact that the AI 
craze could cause GPU shortages which, if AMD takes advantage of it, could 
capitalize on it by having more supply than Nvidia. 

Theres also the fact that the RX 7900 XTX has overheating issues that have 
been hitting some of its reference cards, though third-party cards wouldn't 
be affected by this. 

Regardless, AMD needs to think of a proper strategy in order to tackle its 
lack of market share. Nvidia, despite its current repositioning and troubles, 
is still beating AMD by a landslide and Team Red needs a solid strategy to 
combat that massive lead.



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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/computing/gpu/amds-rx-7900-xtx-is-finally-in-steam-h
ardware-survey-but-hardly-any-gamers-use-it


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