AMD’s graphics solutions are more popular than Nvidia’s in the ‘real world’

AMD’s graphics solutions are more popular than Nvidia’s in the ‘real world’

By Darren Allan

If you go by Steam’s figures, Nvidia is a long way ahead of AMD in the GPU world, but a new survey of Firefox users has shown that the reverse is actually true – or at least that AMD is slightly ahead, if not streets in front.

The Firefox Hardware Survey takes a snapshot of the hardware being employed by those who use the browser, and it found that in terms of GPUs, Intel held a big lead (with integrated graphics) with a 65.39% market share, followed by AMD on 15.4%, just ahead of Nvidia which was in last place on 14.17%.

As mentioned, that’s a very marked difference from Steam’s hardware report, which places Nvidia in clear first place with a mammoth market share of 81%.

So why the huge difference? That’s easy enough to explain. Steam is a gaming service, so it’s unsurprisingly populated by keen gamers who are very likely to have discrete graphics cards – i.e. a separate card rather than an integrated GPU on the processor.

And clearly, when it comes to dedicated gamers and discrete cards, Nvidia is winning the battle by a long way.

Firefox’s report, however, pertains to the general web surfing population, and as …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components

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