Sli / NVlink / CrossFire / MGPU - Pelase Report it in Steam Hardware Survey

[Madlax13]

... and please make a filter for Country.

it will by nice to show up how much mgpu systems are used.

Current its count mgpu configuration at one gpu card ... maybe thats why only 2% 2080 ti exists

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

Grafikkarte:
Treiber: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
DirectX-Karte: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
Anzahl der Monitore: 1
Anzahl der logischen Grafikkarten: 1
- SLI entdeckt (2 GPUs)
Primärer Bus: PCI Express 16x
Primärer VRAM: 11263 MB
Unterstützte MSAA-Modi: 2x 4x 8x

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Multiple GPUs are a fraction of a percent of survey users.

[Satoru]

The survey doesn’t even show 2080s are 2%? Not sure what you’re looking at

[nullable]

Originally posted by Madlax13:

... and please make a filter for Country.

it will by nice to show up how much mgpu systems are used.

It's an enthusiast solution and has never been terribly popular or practical in 16 years. So like Hotsauce said, a fraction of a percent.

Originally posted by Madlax13:

Current its count mgpu configuration at one gpu card ... maybe thats why only 2% 2080 ti exists

Not that many people are going to buy a $1400 GPU, only a fraction of those would be willing to buy two. It's just wishful thinking that widespread multi-GPU configurations are throwing off product statistics,

[Madlax13]

Steam-Hard- & Softwareumfrage: August 2020

" NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 0.96% 0.00%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 0.91% +0.03% "

And the Support Answer me
"The GPU being used by Steam is reported by the survey, and it does not track multi-GPU configurations."

Steam have araound 22 Million active User ... 200K RTX 2080 ti world wide?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

The hardware survey on is sent to a fraction of online accounts. So, a fraction of a fraction of you guesstimation.

[Madlax13]

Sure 2080 maybe low in world wide statistics - but thats not the market that you make money in first place - thats why i ask for a filter for country.

and MGPU maybe 1 % or even less - but maybe in some country above 1%

a more detailed survey would be great.

[nullable]

Originally posted by Madlax13:

Steam-Hard- & Softwareumfrage: August 2020

" NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 0.96% 0.00%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 0.91% +0.03% "

And the Support Answer me
"The GPU being used by Steam is reported by the survey, and it does not track multi-GPU configurations."

Steam have araound 22 Million active User ... 200K RTX 2080 ti world wide?

Not every 2080 ti user is a Steam user.

I also think the way you're interpreting "does not track multi-gpu configurations" is probably incorrect. It might not be tracking every GPU in the multi-GPU array, but that's not the same as ignoring GPU's in those systems. It's probably just taking the first GPU in the configuration that would be used in instances where only a single GPU usable.

Originally posted by Madlax13:

Sure 2080 maybe low in world wide statistics - but thats not the market that you make money in first place - thats why i ask for a filter for country.

and MGPU maybe 1 % or even less - but maybe in some country above 1%

a more detailed survey would be great.

Well, another way to look at it is even though this information might seem very important or interesting to you doesn't mean Valve or the rest of the world agrees.

[Madlax13]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

The hardware survey on is sent to a fraction of online accounts. So, a fraction of a fraction of you guesstimation.

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a sory for my poor eng - i have problems to translate "fraction" ... ok .. and why not for all users and systems automatical ? DSGVO ?

That means the steam survey its not a accurate messuring for currently used hardware - its more like a political hypotesis

[Satoru]

SLI was already a niche thing in a niche market

Now that Nvidia has all but abandoned SLI there' snot a lot of value in reporting on it. Most people who have 2 GPUs now are actually streamers who are using one for video capture and one for playing.

[nullable]

Originally posted by Madlax13:

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

The hardware survey on is sent to a fraction of online accounts. So, a fraction of a fraction of you guesstimation.

:qr:

a sory for my poor eng - i have problems to translate "fraction" ... ok .. and why not for all users and systems automatical ? DSGVO ?

That means the steam survey its not a accurate messuring for currently used hardware - its more like a political hypotesis

Well the Steam survey is a general purpose data set so extremely high accuracy isn't too important. And the sample size is sufficiently large enough that no hardware is being accidentally excluded. It's not like 2080 ti's being under represented and 1060's being over represented or anything like that. 2080 ti's are a niche product and the hardware survey reflects that, you can quibble over decimal points if you want. It's not going to change much though.

[Madlax13]

hmm , thanks for explaining it to me.