Steam Hardware Survey Inaccurate or Fake GPU?

[FeLLPS]

Originally posted by author:

Video Card Description: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060

but GPU-Z says that:

Originally posted by author:

Video Card Description: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

So, here is the question:
Who is Right?
Is my GPU a 1060 disguised as 1660 SUPER?
Is Steam Hardware Survey bugged?

[Watermelon {JESUS IS LORD}]

dont think steam updated hw survey yet for anything newer then 1080
they had to have, i see on the stats page they have like 2060s and 3080s listed in results

[nullable]

Where are you seeing the 1060 exactly? In Steam under Help > System Information?

I mean sure it's possible the hardware survey to misidentify your GPU. It's also possible it collected the right information, but displayed what it collected incorrectly too.

[FeLLPS]

Originally posted by huut {JESUS IS LORD}:

dont think steam updated hw survey yet for anything newer then 1080
they had to have, i see on the stats page they have like 2060s and 3080s listed in results

I`m clueless, what's your opinion?

[FeLLPS]

Originally posted by Snakub Plissken:

Where are you seeing the 1060 exactly? In Steam under Help > System Information?

I mean sure it's possible the hardware survey to misidentify your GPU. It's also possible it collected the right information, but displayed what it collected incorrectly too.

In the survey results webpage.

did not know about Help > System Information.

Video Card:
Driver: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
DirectX Driver Name: nvldumd.dll
Driver Version: 27.21.14.6627
DirectX Driver Version: 27.21.14.6627
Driver Date: 4 23 2021
OpenGL Version: 4.6
Desktop Color Depth: 32 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
DirectX Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
VendorID: 0x10de
DeviceID: 0x21c4
Revision: 0xa1
Number of Monitors: 2
Number of Logical Video Cards: 2
No SLI or Crossfire Detected
Primary Display Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Desktop Resolution: 2944 x 1080
Primary Display Size: 18.74" x 10.51" (21.46" diag)
47.6cm x 26.7cm (54.5cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
Primary VRAM: 6143 MB
Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x 8x

[Watermelon {JESUS IS LORD}]

nice you fixed your problem :D

[Castyles]

Trust what CPU-Z shows you.

[_I_]

steam survey is only taken on new buid or mobo upgrade
cant trust the results since they are not changed on cpu/gpu/monitor upgrades
you can attempt to take the survey again, or on a new build
start -> run/search
steam://takesurvey/1/
steam://takesurvey/2/
steam://takesurvey/3/
steam://takesurvey/4/


help -> system info gives correct info

[nullable]

Originally posted by FeLLPS:

Originally posted by Snakub Plissken:

Where are you seeing the 1060 exactly? In Steam under Help > System Information?

I mean sure it's possible the hardware survey to misidentify your GPU. It's also possible it collected the right information, but displayed what it collected incorrectly too.

In the survey results webpage.

did not know about Help > System Information.

Wait wait, you're saying on https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam

It shows a 1060, and you're expecting it to show a 1660 Super?

Well... that's because the hardware survey page is showing you data collected from all Steam users not your personal hardware. And the default view shows you the most common thing for each item in the list. IE more uses have 1060's than any other individual card.

Expand the video card line and you can see how many fewer 1660 supers there are next to 1060's. 8.65% of users on a 1060 vs 2.49% of users on a 1660 Super.

I think you have just made some faulty assumption how to read the hardware survey results page. Perhaps you were fooled because a lot of the other values seem to align with your hardware. That's coincidence though.

IE Trust CPU-Z. You're interpreting the hardware survey incorrectly.

[CravenCoyote]

From the top of Steam, click Help then System Information.

That'll tell you the details of *your* computer