Retail supplies for the GeForce RTX 3060 could start to dwindle soon if the latest chatter is accurate.
Amid unofficial chatter that NVIDIA is postponing the launch of its next-generation GeForce RTX 50 series powered by its Blackwell architecture, there’s another unconfirmed report stating that the previous-generation GeForce RTX 3060 has just been put on the chopping block. No big deal, right? Sure, except that also happens to be the most popular graphics card on Steam, according to its latest hardware survey.Steam’s monthly hardware and software surveys are not the end-all, be-all when it comes to market penetration, due in part because they only reflect a portion of the platform’s total users, and results can be skewed depending on which segment participates (such as pinging Chinese internet cafes, for example). But given Steam’s immense popularity, it’s one of the best resources available for tracking this sort of thing.The survey data for July 2024 shows the GeForce RTX 3060 retaining pole position at 5.88%, which is up by 0.22% from the June. In second place is the semi-ancient GeForce GTX 1650, which fell slightly (0.
