Turing Discussion Thread

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https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/28700...tion-rates

Our first data point comes from the bestselling lists at Amazon and Newegg. At Christmas and before, these lists were dominated by GTX 1080 and 1070 cards. The steady release of new cards and the retirement of old ones have changed this, and now only a relative handful of lower-end Pascal cards hold the space. The RTX and new 1660 Ti are taking over the market, as predicted.

Steam’s Hardware Survey data isn’t perfect. 10-12 percent of the GPUsSEEAMAZON_ET_135 See Amazon ET commerce it surveys are listed as “Other” in the list, which means there’s a substantial amount of baked-in inaccuracy. It’s a trailing list, which means we see the data for the month previously, and we don’t know when GPUs accrue enough market share to claim space. The cut-off looks to be ~0.15 percent, based on our data.
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Last month, we noted that adoption rates between the RTX 2080 and RTX 2070 were nearly identical. That’s no longer the case — the RTX 2070 has pulled significantly ahead of the RTX 2080, at 0.5 percent uptake. This compares poorly against the GTX 1070, but the price-equal comparison between the GTX 1080 and the RTX 2070 is a fairer way to compare the two, in our opinion. The GTX 1080 was still decisively ahead of the RTX 2070 at the same point in its life cycle, but the gap is much smaller.

We’ve added the GTX 1080 Ti and RTX 2080 Ti as well, and a comparison between the RTX 2080 and the GTX 1080 Ti. In this case, we’ve had to omit a month from the GTX 1080 Ti — the third month of adoption data for that GPU slams into the August 2017 discontinuity in the Steam Hardware Survey data. The first two months of data show much stronger adoption rates for the 1080 Ti compared to either of the two Turing cards, though the RTX 2080 is in a stronger position.

It is not clear how to split the issues with Turing’s slow adoption against the hammering the GPU market took in the back half of 2018 in general. You can read the slow Turing sales as significantly caused by the slowdown, or argue that the slowdown has been as bad as it is in part because NV raised Turing prices, making Pascal more attractive (possibly as a means of clearing inventory).