The Citylink store spoke about the preferences of Russians when choosing video cards. Discuss
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Among high-end models, most of the users are interested in NVIDIA RTX 3060Ti, 3070, 3060 and 3070Ti series graphics cards.
Regarding the amount of video memory usedfilter, which indicated models with 8 GB. Such video cards were chosen by more than 35% of potential buyers, 12 GB - 19%, 6 GB - 20%, 4 GB - 12%. And 14% falls on the rest of the video memory.
An important component for a video card is itsmemory type. The majority of site visitors, in 45% of cases, were looking for the GDDR6 memory standard - one of the fastest types of memory. GDDR6X is of interest to 25% of potential buyers, while the older GDDR5 standard is 22%.
Citilink made a rating for brands.It turned out that Palit video cards are the most popular, Gigabyte is in second place, MSI is in third place. And video cards from Nvidia were purchased 16 times more often than from AMD, devices from these manufacturers were in 4th and 5th places, respectively. This data is for the first half of 2022.
For standard and everyday office tasksbuyers choose budget, not the most productive models. The capabilities of these devices are enough to work in classic office programs and watch videos in FullHD. For simple tasks, buyers often buy video cards with a low processor frequency, up to 1151 MHz, with 2GB of video memory and a 64bit bus width.
This is what the top best-selling budget solutions look like:
- MSI NVIDIA GeForce 210 1GB
- Palit NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 2GB
- ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 2GB
Among gaming video cards, the most popular were mid-budget options costing 20-50 thousand rubles, but expensive cards were also included in the list.
Top-selling gaming graphics cards in H1 2022:
- Palit NVIDIA GTX1050 Ti StormX 4GB
- Palit NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER DUAL 8GB
- Palit NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060Ti DUAL 8GB
- Palit NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 DUAL 12GB
- Palit NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER STORMX 6G