GTX 1060 can be regarded as a generation of magic cards in the gaming industry. Its super cost-effectiveness has kept it popular for many years. To this day, some 3A masterpieces still use it as the configuration requirement benchmark. However, the era of GTX 1060 dominance may h

GTX 1060 can be regarded as a generation of magic cards in the gaming industry. Its super cost-effectiveness has kept it popular for many years. To this day, some 3A masterpieces still use it as the configuration requirement benchmark. However, the era of GTX 1060 dominance may have ended. , the most mainstream graphics card among PC players, has become RTX 3060!

Previously, we always thought that 1060 is still the graphics card with the highest usage rate of PC players, and it ranks first in the Steam hardware survey list every month. However, recently foreign media tomshardware pointed out: is because Steam separates the usage of 3060 graphics cards. , 3060 desktop version ( desktop computer ) and 3060 mobile version ( laptop computer ) are listed separately in Steam's hardware survey, but 1060 does not distinguish so much. When we add up the usage rates of the two types of 3060, we will find that the usage rates of 3060 have surpassed 1060 in June this year and have become the new generation of "card king"!

tomshardware sorted out the original data of Steam and stated: If you only examine the DX12 graphics card and calculate the 3060 desktop version and 3060 mobile version together, then as of September this year, the usage rate of RTX 3060 graphics card has reached 10.53%, becoming the only graphics card with a usage rate of double digits.

. Even if you only observe the original data of Steam, you can see that the total usage rate of RTX 3060 in September was 7.52%, while the usage rate of GTX 1060 was 6.94%. The data for August is also slightly higher than the total usage rate of 3060. In this way, the graphics card most commonly used by PC gamers in is no longer 1060, but 3060.

In addition, tomshardware also predicts that even if the 3060 desktop version and mobile version are not combined, their growth trend is very obvious. It is estimated that at some time in 2023, they will be ranked first and second in the Steam hardware survey list respectively.

RTX 3060 itself is indeed a good graphics card. It supports ray tracing, DLSS2 and other functions that 1060 does not have, and its performance is much better than 1060. But its pricing may be a bit expensive. Perhaps after its price drops, RTX 3060 will completely replace the status of GTX 1060 and become a new generation of magic cards.