Nvidia or AMD the most popular?

[otakubr]

No further details, simple question, which manufacturer sells more?

 

[tivatar]

Steam does hardware surveys. Here is what they show.

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/

 

[ilysaml]

It depends on which features you are interested in, the overall performance, prices, and much more things to count...

Well, neither company sent to us the financial statements for this quarter, so we still don't know.

 

[blazorthon]

Nvidia was originally more popular, but AMD has been catching up very well. I'm not quite sure of the standings right now, but AMD is probably still losing overall, but on-par or even winning if we only count modern cards such as only DX11 capable cards. That's when AMD really got into gear after taking over Ati. Getting the Radeon 5000 cards out a whole six months or so before the GTX 400 series was quite the accomplishment.

 

[nforce4max]

AMD if you are interested in bang for buck and decent quality cards. Nivida does good performance and in general better drivers but physical quality of the cards has gradually sunk over the years to max out profit.

 

[otakubr]

I'm planning to build a new rig soon, haven't decided neither budget or specs yet. So i was just wondering what most people are buying. As far as i know intel outsells hugely amd in CPUs market, and i would like to know if there was some data over this about GPU. Do anyone knows which one is selling more, the 670gtx or HD7970? I'm considering one of these. By the way, thanks for the steam data, i forgot about that

 

[blazorthon]

I'm planning to build a new rig soon, haven't decided neither budget or specs yet. So i was just wondering what most people are buying. As far as i know intel outsells hugely amd in CPUs market, and i would like to know if there was some data over this about GPU. Do anyone knows which one is selling more, the 670gtx or HD7970? I'm considering one of these. By the way, thanks for the steam data, i forgot about that

The 7950 overclocks equally to the 7970, so unless you don't overclock at all, I'd recommend it above the 7970 and the 670. It wins in overclocking performance against the 670 overall, hence the recommendation over the 670, although it's not so much that the 670 is not feasible if you want a Nvidia card like it is against the 660 TI.

 

[Smeg45]

I second the 7950, but if you have the cash, a 7970GHz edition would be my first choice. OC it further and it will smash any game for a long while yet.

 

[blazorthon]

True. The 7970 GHz Editions do seem to be able to go a little farther than the 7950s and the standard 7970s can go.

 

[Sunius]

Guys did you even read his question? I asked which company is more popular, not what he should buy or what is better for his money.

@OP: I read somewhere that Nvidia holds 75% of GPU market and AMD holds only 25%, though I cannot remember where I read it.

 

[blazorthon]

Guys did you even read his question? I asked which company is more popular, not what he should buy or what is better for his money.

@OP: I read somewhere that Nvidia holds 75% of GPU market and AMD holds only 25%, though I cannot remember where I read it.

We already settled the first question and OP made another comment. We've been addressing that one since.

 

[Sunius]

Yes. His question:

Do anyone knows which one is selling more, the 670gtx or HD7970?

That has nothing to do with performance or price. Or even overclocking.

 

[otakubr]

75% is impressive if it is really the case. I'm asking about the numbers because i believe that games developers shall make their games based on best selling hardware and for example, in the case of this clear nvidia advantage, games that run better on their drivers should be upcoming. Am i wrong?

 

[blazorthon]

Yes. His question:

Do anyone knows which one is selling more, the 670gtx or HD7970?

That has nothing to do with performance or price. Or even overclocking.

Going by which one sells more is a poor way to choose what to buy. Performance, price, overclocking, and such are aspects of the cards that should be compared to decide what card(s) to buy.

 

[blazorthon]

75% is impressive if it is really the case. I'm asking about the numbers because i believe that games developers shall make their games based on best selling hardware and for example, in the case of this clear nvidia advantage, games that run better on their drivers should be upcoming. Am i wrong?

Being more popular overall is irrelevant if most of the cards in these surveys are old cards that aren't being optimized for. Game developers tend to not optimize for one company over the other because you can't really optimize for a company, you can only optimize for a particular series of cards. For example, games that were optimized for Fermi GPUs (GTX 400 and 500) often run very well on GCN GPUs (Radeon 7000). Rest assured that not many games are optimized specifically for Nvidia or AMD.

Also, I'll reiterate a point that I made earlier. If we go by the modern DX11 and better cards, the cards that are actually still getting driver/game optimizing, AMD/Ati and Nvidia are fairly similar in market penetration.

 

[redeemer]

7970 GHZ OC 1250 1.28-1.3v Mhz 3GB 384 bit bus what else you need

 

[blazorthon]

The good Radeon 7950 models tend to be able to go almost as far as a 7970 GHz Edition for almost $200 less. The 7970 GHz Edition is overpriced in comparison because the maybe 5-10% higher overclock simply isn't worth 50-75% more money IMO.

 

[otakubr]

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