Nvidia's Ampere GPUs continue to dominate Valve's monthly hardware survey, though Ada is slowly building in number

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Is that time of the month again, when Valve releases the results from its Steam hardware and software survey, and to no surprise whatsoever, Nvidia still rules the graphics card chart. The November figures show that Nvidia accounts for 72.5% of all the entries, with its Ampere-based GPUs (i.e. GeForce RTX 30-series) accounting for 27.3% of all the different architectures.

Every month, Valve collates the results it gleans from carrying out its random requests of Steam accounts to supply it with PC system and software configurations, such as operating system type, CPU, GPU, RAM amount, and so on. It's not done without the account holder's consent, of course, as you have to actively choose to participate. Valve never indicates the number of accounts it's sampled, so there's always an understandable level of skepticism concerning the results.

In recent years, the rapid growth of PC gaming across Asia and a version of Steam just for China have somewhat skewed the figures, but even so, the figures aren't ignored by the media, hardware vendors, and game publishers. So what's the current breakdown like?

Just looking at graphics cards, the top six entries are all from Nvidia:GeForce RTX 3060, GTX 1650, GTX 1060, RTX 3060 Laptop, RTX 2060, and RTX 3060 Ti. Together, these mid-priced, mainstream GPUs make up 25% of the total, with the RTX 3060 leading the pack at a smidgeon over 5%.

It's pretty much held the top position for the past three months, though it's worth noting that the operating system language points out just why this is the case. Normally, simplified Chinese accounts for 29% of the survey (averaged over eight months) but in October, it took a huge 45.9% slice of the data. However, for the November survey, it dropped