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The original was posted on /r/pcmasterrace by /u/vlad_8011 on 2025-06-04 10:34:34+00:00.


I think some of people knew about it, but they was accussed of conspiracy theories, but (aluminum foil) hats off, here is why Radeon GPU's have so low market share:

https://imgur.com/a/3AnOh3P

I know, this is in Polish, that my native language, but as you can see, if you have Integrated GPU on your CPU, Steam will read your (for example) 9070XT as AMD Radeon (TM) Graphics. I already reported this on steam, where i could (2 threads, including steam beta channel), but AMD should be also aware, as if there are (Nvidia users says there are) devs that rely on this survey, this damage the market.

If we take in account all data, marked with red from first screenshots, and summ this up, all steam hardware survey looks different:

https://imgur.com/a/LeHZQ5z

And whats strange - data from this survey from linux only shows something different:

https://imgur.com/a/VhcN8Kd

In the end, AMD, according to Steam hardware survey got 17%, but most of radeons are not showing on the list, because of that.

Spread the word, i hope Valve will fix this. For now, only disabling iGPU will "fix this" (no VRAM?)

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The original was posted on /r/pcmasterrace by /u/Rinkzate on 2025-06-04 04:57:11+00:00.


Hello PC gaming folks, just wanted to share a little story that hopefully may make at least one or two people out there who are bummed by the current graphics card situation feel a little bit better about not getting that upgrade you wanted.

A handful of a years ago I went ahead and treated myself to a 3090 ti from EVGA (rip) which cost something to the tune of $1600 on sale. This was at the time a ridiculously large expense for me but I told myself "ok I can definitely skip the 4000 series and then I'll let myself upgrade again in the 5000 series."

I know that for a lot of people even a every other generation upgrade may seem ludicrous but I play a lot of video games. I actually play video games probably as much as I work, typically a bare minimum of 4 hours a day and then often 10+ hours on days off. Spending a good chunk on something I get so much mileage out of makes sense to me.

Anyway, news of the 5000 series broke, I was excited, and then all hell broke loose. I was bummed, and I felt defeated about the upgrade I had promised myself when I got the 3090 ti.

Flash to a handful of months later and I get a chance to get the aorus master ice card for "retail price" from a major retailer at $3000. Not wanting to let the opportunity go back and regret it I went ahead and bought the card.

Here I am about a month later, and I'm going to return it. Maybe I have really unrealistic expectations, but I expected to play the new Doom at 1440 all on ultra and it keep a constant 163 without it breaking a sweat or dropping a single frame. I expected to play expedition 33 on highest settings and it not hitch even slightly when I parry.

I really thought I would be able to see performance I had only dreamt of, and that really just did not happen.

This series at least in my experience is a bit of a farce, and an overpriced one at that. Yes, it is better than my 3090 ti, but being constantly worried about cables melting, drawing 600 watts, and having those settings turned up a smidge higher than I did previously only to still have some performance hiccups just did not improve my gaming experience, and I really don't think it would for most people.

Don't know if anyone will actually give a damn about any of this, but I have seen a lot of people wishing and lamenting on here and I just wanna say that if your situation is anything like mine, you really aren't missing out that much. I think the ridiculously high dollar amounts being appended to these cards leads many of us to believe they're more of moonshot upgrades than they really are. No, we're just in a really screwed market.

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