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NVIDIA’s RTX 3070 was the Best-Selling GPU in March, AMD CPU Share Inches Closer to 30%

Steam just released its hardware survey numbers for the month of March, and we have a few surprises on the GPU side. Despite constrained capacity, the GeForce RTX 3070 was the most purchased graphics card among Steam gamers with an increase of 0.17% over the course of the month. Considering that it’s almost impossible to buy an Ampere part at retail prices, that’s a very impressive figure. The second and third most sold GPUs were the GTX 1650 and 1650 Ti which gained 0.15% and 0.13%, respectively.

The RTX 2060 follows shortly behind with an increase of 0.10%. At the fifth spot, we’ve got the RTX 3080 which increased its share by 0.8% to a total of 0.85%. Looking at these numbers, you can conclude one thing. Yes, there is a shortage of GPUs but a decent number of parts are still being sold (not just to miners) which explains why NVIDIA’s revenue has been growing at such a rapid pace. Once again, none of the Navi 2x GPUs made it to the top 10 or the top-20 or top-30 for the matter, indicating the near-absolute non-existence of AMD in the high-end graphics card market. (Viagra)

The CPU market behaved more or less the same as last month. AMD continued to steadily another chunk of the pie, with a rather considerable increase of +46% for the month of March, bringing Team Red’s total market share to 0.46%. This is probably the highest AMD since 2004-005. Although quite a few Rocket Lake-S parts were sold last month (especially in Germany), that doesn’t seem to have put a dampener on AMD’s march. It’ll be interesting to see if Intel makes any gains in April.

Areej Syed

Processors, PC gaming, and the past. I have been writing about computer hardware for over seven years with more than 5000 published articles. Started off during engineering college and haven't stopped since. Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Divinity, Torment, Baldur's Gate and so much more... Contact: areejs12@hardwaretimes.com.
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