Lestat
14th November 2007, 14:16
Not exactly earth shattering news, infact Since it seems to be all Core2 and Nvidia cards with very little SLi. Pretty much what you expect
THE LATEST EDITION of the Valve Hardware Survey is out today, with the ever-refreshing numbers showing some distinct changes from the Spring survey, with some interesting headline-makers.
The first big change is that whilst Nvidia held seven of the ten most popular video card spots back in Spring, now, Graphzilla has the seven most popular cards, and eight out of ten spots. The Radeon X1950 is the most popular ATI card in use, with just 3.55% of gamers favouring it. Its clear that many gamers are feeling the pace of today's games, with former darlings Radeon 9600, X800 and 9200 (all top ten in Spring) fall off the chart - to be replaced by Nvidia cards, it seems!
No doubt the green team with crow over the fact that 80% of multi-GPU systems are SLI, rather than Crossfire. However, given that the total number of SLI systems in the survey is currently 51 to 12, we suspect there's a way to go yet before anyoe can claim a win.
The other big change is RAM - now 49% of gamers have 2GB or more, a massive swing up from 0.43% last time out that indicates where gamers are spending their money.
When it comes to processors, its also clear that AMD is feeling Chipzilla's fearsome roar - Otellini's mob increased its share of gamers from 53% to 57% at raging Ruiz's expense. It seems that most of those Intel processors are dual core, as the percentage of rigs tricked out with multiple cores has risen from 24.64% up to 47.16%, which includes fully 4% of gamers with quad core systems, appropriately enough.
So there are clearly some big moves and shakes going on in the hardware world, and it doesn't take a genius to see that Nvidia and Intel are pushing them, whilst DAAMIT wiggles behind without much joy. Keep an eye on the survey, which you can eyeball for yourself here, for updated results as they come in. µ
THE LATEST EDITION of the Valve Hardware Survey is out today, with the ever-refreshing numbers showing some distinct changes from the Spring survey, with some interesting headline-makers.
The first big change is that whilst Nvidia held seven of the ten most popular video card spots back in Spring, now, Graphzilla has the seven most popular cards, and eight out of ten spots. The Radeon X1950 is the most popular ATI card in use, with just 3.55% of gamers favouring it. Its clear that many gamers are feeling the pace of today's games, with former darlings Radeon 9600, X800 and 9200 (all top ten in Spring) fall off the chart - to be replaced by Nvidia cards, it seems!
No doubt the green team with crow over the fact that 80% of multi-GPU systems are SLI, rather than Crossfire. However, given that the total number of SLI systems in the survey is currently 51 to 12, we suspect there's a way to go yet before anyoe can claim a win.
The other big change is RAM - now 49% of gamers have 2GB or more, a massive swing up from 0.43% last time out that indicates where gamers are spending their money.
When it comes to processors, its also clear that AMD is feeling Chipzilla's fearsome roar - Otellini's mob increased its share of gamers from 53% to 57% at raging Ruiz's expense. It seems that most of those Intel processors are dual core, as the percentage of rigs tricked out with multiple cores has risen from 24.64% up to 47.16%, which includes fully 4% of gamers with quad core systems, appropriately enough.
So there are clearly some big moves and shakes going on in the hardware world, and it doesn't take a genius to see that Nvidia and Intel are pushing them, whilst DAAMIT wiggles behind without much joy. Keep an eye on the survey, which you can eyeball for yourself here, for updated results as they come in. µ