Geforce vs radeon, the most popular graphics cards from 2004 to today

Steam provides statistics on the most popular graphics cards (among other components) used by players on its platform since mid-2004. An interesting 'timelapse' video recounts which were the Radeon and GeForce graphics cards most used by players as time has passed.

GeForce vs Radeon, A war of more than 15 years

The video is very interesting, and we can see that the performance of the AMD and NVIDIA graphics cards (Radeon and GeForce) was really consistent with the fact that they both outperformed their competitor every year, and maintained some equality, until 2015, when NVIDIA introduced its Maxwell- based GeForce 900 product line.

The GeForce GTX 970 and GeForce GTX 960 quickly became Steam's most popular graphics cards during 2015, and marked an era of green dominance, which followed with the Pascal-based GTX 1000 series. In turn, we see that AMD has failed to place any of its graphics cards in the TOP in more than 2 years, according to Steam statistics, which, without a doubt, is very reliable.

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Another thing that shows is the strong leadership that Intel HD Graphics had, which are basically iGPUs. For a long time, Intel's iGPU was considered a dedicated graphics unit, even if the system used an NVIDIA or AMD graphics card. This has been addressed with the latest generation of Intel iGPUs. Currently, NVIDIA completely dominates the Steam platform, as the majority of gamers (74.75%) use GeForce cards, 14.9% AMD cards, and 10.21% use iGPUs from Intel.

The interesting thing is that of the new GeForce RTX cards of the 20 series, like the RTX 2060, it has experienced a huge gain of + 0.27%, which shows the interest of the players for the mid-range GeForce cards.

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