Most Used Graphics Cards (2008–2025) – 17 Years GPU WAR Evolution!

[pututu]

Data based on the Steam Hardware & Software Survey. Most of us already know which card is the most popular, particularly the xx60 series cards. Just good to see this evolution visually

Oh, you can speed up the video if you want to see the whole thing in less than 11 mins.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZN_whA-c3Q

 

[LukeTbk]

The iGPU evolution in there is interesting (and a bit of the surprise) if that data about them is solid.

PC Gaming on them, even before the first crypto GPU price crush was quite popular, steam gaming was quite casual hardware wise at the time:

Now it is still quite low requirement for the most played game, but 1060 GTX level will not be rare. Maybe it was more common for people to still have non-gpus computer (laptop or desktop) for non gaming reason used casually to game back in the days, now those became smarthphone.

 

[Haswellbeast]

Yeah, it's crazy how like new igpus and ddr5 are pretty solid! But also, it all depends on the games you play. Minecraft runs (with some optimizations) on almost any igpu sandy bridge+, and is still a pretty fun game either alone or with friends. Meanwhile, Crysis does not run on my Intel Arc GPU, and doesn't really run any better on newer cpus, so you get restricted to a certain era of gpus. Idk, truth be told, the more fun games to me are not the most graphically demanding, and so, getting the latest and greatest GPU isn't that much of a necessity.

 

[DCookSta]

The old 1050ti held on for as long as it could. I gifted mine to a friend and he's still using it for various tasks.

 

[Comixbooks]

6600 AGP is the one I used Verto Pny refurb from Best Buy. I never bothered upgrading because early LCD panels just messed with my vision. CFL tubes... Used the card from 2002-2010

 

[Sycraft]

Yeah, it's crazy how like new igpus and ddr5 are pretty solid! But also, it all depends on the games you play. Minecraft runs (with some optimizations) on almost any igpu sandy bridge+, and is still a pretty fun game either alone or with friends. Meanwhile, Crysis does not run on my Intel Arc GPU, and doesn't really run any better on newer cpus, so you get restricted to a certain era of gpus. Idk, truth be told, the more fun games to me are not the most graphically demanding, and so, getting the latest and greatest GPU isn't that much of a necessity.

They aren't fast, but they aren't terrible for sure. I've used the iGPU on my 14900 laptop when on a plane (since the seat power isn't enough to fire up the nVidia dGPU) and it works. Rez needs to be lowered and FPS expectations need to be kept reasonable but it works.