The huge price of the NVIDIA RTX 4090 video card did not deter gamers from buying it. Steam data shows that the most powerful consumer graphics card in January took the second place in terms of user growth, increasing it by 0.24% of all players of the service. In first place is the RTX 3060 laptop with an increase of 0.44% with a total number of owners of 4.47%.
The RTX 4090 is the first Ada Lovelace card to hit the main section of the GPU chart on Steam. RTX 4090’s share of 0.24% and its rapid growth is impressive – the graphics card starts at $1,600, more expensive than any other consumer card on the market, including all AMD Radeon flagships.
January was also a good month for the Ampere family, with the RTX 3050, 3060 Ti and 3090 showing gains. AMD’s Radeon RX 6700 XT led the rise in popularity by 0.06%, although most modern AMD graphics cards are firmly at the bottom of the table.
Course
TEAM MANAGEMENT
Gather your dream team and lead them towards a common goal.
REGISTER!
GeForce GTX 1650 since November continues to be the most popular video card in absolute numbers with 6.27% of users. Previously, since 2018, the GTX 1060 was at the top of the pedestal, which has now moved to second place and is experiencing an outflow of users.
As for processors, January was a continuation of AMD’s growth period. Its processors are now installed on 32.84% of Steam users’ computers, close to the record high of 33.73% reached last summer.
In January, Windows 11 passed the 30% mark, with an increase of 10% in six months. The share of Microsoft’s new operating system is 30.33% after the number of Windows 10 users fell by 1.96%. Last month, Microsoft announced that it would stop direct licensing of Windows 10 on January 31st, so the number of Windows 10 owners could decline rapidly in the future. Windows 7 is still afloat with 0.11%.
The success of the NVIDIA RTX 4090 may indicate that for many gamers, unrivaled performance, which helps to forget about limitations in games, is more important than a high price and outweighs possible troubles with power adapters. The RTX 4090 graphics card will be more than enough for new games in the medium term, and the competition will not soon match similar performance, especially in ray tracing processing.
Is the NVIDIA RTX 4090 too big? Alphacool offers an ultra-compact water cooling system for placing a video card in one PCI-E slot
Source: TechSpot
