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Gururu How in the heck do we see a +0.5% increase in 64GB? What video card is that? Reply
usertests Gururu said: How in the heck do we see a +0.5% increase in 64GB? What video card is that? Maybe you cracked the code and they are detecting iGPU users and RAM. Steam Survey doesn't seem reliable. Reply
TerryLaze Admin said: For the first time in Steam history, 8-core CPUs have overtaken 6-core CPUs and GPUs with 16GB of VRAM have overtaken 8GB GPUs… …by such a small margin that it's statistical noise. Go figure, the two most available configs in vram are the two most chosen options. And the only available low end choices in desktop cpus are the most common…what a wonder. Both ultra core and zen 5 only start at 6 cores. Reply
usertests TerryLaze said: …by such a small margin that it's statistical noise. Go figure, the two most available configs in vram are the two most chosen options. Maybe 8 GB and 12 GB will swap places within a couple of generations if 3 GB GDDR7 on 128-bit becomes the common starting point… not to mention the reintroduction of the RTX 3060 12GB. Reply
palladin9479 usertests said: Maybe 8 GB and 12 GB will swap places within a couple of generations if 3 GB GDDR7 on 128-bit becomes the common starting point… not to mention the reintroduction of the RTX 3060 12GB. Samsung being late to market with it's 24Gb GDDR chips is why the budget 128-bit segment got stuck with 8GB. Then the rampocalypse happened so who knows when supply will clear up. Hopefully in three or four years we'll be at 12GB for budget / 18GB for midrange and 24GB for high end GPUs. The article is misleading a bit because under 16GB is still a larger percentage then 16 and above. The real story is the steady growth indicating people are still switching out older systems / components for newer ones and the market is slowly shifting towards 12GB and beyond. Reply
v2millennium Gururu said: How in the heck do we see a +0.5% increase in 64GB? What video card is that? Could be APU with a large portion of system RAM allocated as video memory Reply
thestryker Gururu said: How in the heck do we see a +0.5% increase in 64GB? What video card is that? I've seen that pointed out elsewhere which points towards it potentially capturing integrated graphics and not knowing exactly how to read the available memory. Reply
palladin9479 v2millennium said: Could be APU with a large portion of system RAM allocated as video memory It's someone who got their hands on an enterprise GPU and is messing around with it on a Linux PC using Steam. Also possible they have an AMD Instinct MI210 installed, that's a headless 64GB GPU but doesn't do gaming. They would have to have another GPU or using integrated graphics, though the Steam Survey would just report on the highest VRAM device it detected. 4r_SwjYogQE:2 View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r_SwjYogQE&t=2s Reply
usertests palladin9479 said: It's someone who got their hands on an enterprise GPU and is messing around with it on a Linux PC using Steam. Also possible they have an AMD Instinct MI210 installed, that's a headless 64GB GPU but doesn't do gaming. They would have to have another GPU or using integrated graphics, though the Steam Survey would just report on the highest VRAM device it detected. That's a lot of someones, if it's registering as 0.5% (1 in 200 users surveyed). Seems more likely to be a mistake, of which there are plenty in Steam Surveys. I doubt even Strix Halo 128 GB users could legitimately get it to 0.5%. Reply
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