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