Nvidia RTX 30-series GPUs have 30% market share to AMD RX 6000's 3% in revised Steam survey

Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti FE laying next to Zotac RTX 3060 12GB Twin Edge graphics card — (Image credit: Future)

Remember when we observed that Nvidia's RTX 3060 was the new Steam Survey king but something fishy was going on? Well, Steam latest numbers are out and, you guessed it, the data has gone back to "normal", returning the 3060 from whence it came.

We also can't help notice just how badly AMD does compared to Nvidia by some measures. Hold that thought, we'll come back to it.

Steam's March figures saw the RTX 3060 leap up to over 10% share of all gamers using the platform. Previously, the 3060 had been ticking along in the high 3% to low 4% range. The latest figures for April return the 3060 to 4.66% of all gamers on Steam. That's much more plausible.

Taken together, mobile and desktop variants of the RTX 3060 account for 9.17% of gamers in the latest survey, well above the GTX 1650's 6.19% share. Add in Ti variants of the 3060 and it has an even bigger lead at 13.44%.

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What the adjusted numbers still also show is the overall popularity of Nvidia's RTX 30-series GPUs, which clock in at just under 30% of overall Steam gamers. Shockingly, that's 10 times higher than AMD's equivalent Radeon RX 6000 series, which combined don't quite reach 3% of overall share. Yikes.

Overall, these Steam survey numbers have always been a bit messy. They need to be scanned with a certain appreciation of the various shortcomings and anomalies. The fact that several GPUs leapt up the tables last month, only to be demoted shortly afterwards say it all.

But as a rough guide to what GPUs are doing well out there in the real world as opposed to the review circuit and the YouTube rumour mill, it remains one of the most useful tools we have.

Jeremy has been writing about technology and PCs since the 90nm Netburst era (Google it!) and enjoys nothing more than a serious dissertation on the finer points of monitor input lag and overshoot followed by a forensic examination of advanced lithography. Or maybe he just likes machines that go “ping!” He also has a thing for tennis and cars.