Though Steam regularly shows NVIDIA as the most popular graphical hardware provider, usurping AMD, a new Firefox hardware survey shows the exact opposite. While Steam’s Hardware Report – by its nature – presents stats specific to gamers, Firefox’s equivalent potentially offers a more “real-world” hardware view, using data divined from Firefox browser users. As such, it appears that AMD’s graphical solutions are more popular amongst regular PC users. However, since Firefox’s sample only counts for 6.08% of the world browser market share, the number may not be entirely representative. Also, the survey’s leading graphics vendor is, by quite some margin, Intel. Regardless, it still makes for interesting reading, and AMD beating NVIDIA is the key revelation. Of course, Intel wins out on CPU share by a considerable amount.
AMD Beats NVIDIA in Firefox Hardware Survey
The Firefox Hardware Report breaks down four headline separate categories: Graphics, Processor, Operating System, and Flash (as in the vulnerability-laden Adobe platform. The survey presents no surprises, per se, though AMD’s graphical victory over NVIDIA is unexpected. In addition, though, are a number of other hardware statistics. These include specific GPU model, display resolution, CPU, CPU speed, memory, and architecture (32-bit Vs. 64-bit).
Graphics
- 65% – Intel
- 15% – AMD
- 14% – NVIDIA
- 5% – Other
Processor
- 88% – Intel
- 12% – AMD
Operating System
- 46% – Windows 7
- 34% – Windows 10
- 8% – Windows 8.1
- 6% – Other
- 5% – macOS
- 1% – Windows XP
Flash
- 66% – Has Flash
- 34% – No Flash
And The Rest
The top GPU model is Haswell (GT2) with 10.71%; 1366×768 is the most popular resolution with 33.65%; most users (68.67%) run two-core processors; the most common CPU speed is 2.3GHz to 2.69GHz (26.05%); 33.01% of users run just 4GB of RAM, though 8GB is on the rise; finally, 64-bit architecture trumps 32-bit architecture – and only within the last month – by 61.66% to 38.34%.
Not real-world at all. Firefox users would be a particular group of people worried about monopolies, who would rather use products from “underdog” companies, soooo… You see where I’m going with this, right?
The simplest explanation is just looking at the the numbers Intel has a 65% market share and they don’t make discreet graphics cards, whereas amd’s numbers include both APUs and Gpus but they are only 1% above nvidia I’m guessing amd sells more APUs and than graphics cards which most likely makes up the bulk of the of their market share. Really they should have done integrated graphics and discreet graphics separately but I suspect that Firefox can’t detect nvidia graphics cards in some laptops since they are disabled when not playing games
Firefox has 5% of total browser market share…
So it’s not representative in any way.
It’s very good.