It took a while, but I've now implemented a database of GPU Models from AMD, Intel and NVIDIA for you to choose from for your PC Info. This means we can soon do a graph of what GPUs people use! So from the 1st of August with the next refreshed user statistics information, we will have a GPU graph!
As a result of these changes, any GPU Model you previously entered manually has been wiped (lots of weird spellings). Sorry, but it's the easiest way to make it accurate going forward. Now you only need to enter a couple characters and it will search and hopefully find your exact model for you to click.
I'm not currently including NVIDIA Quadro, because that's a workstation card. Same for the AMD FirePro stuff. However, if we get repeated requests to add them in, I might, but I doubt they're that used in our audience. I bet you will surprise me though...
If we really are missing a proper GPU, let me know in the comments. I would be surprised, since we have over 500 in the database.
If you've no idea what I'm talking about: see the user statistics page here for all the goodness. You can see the most popular distribution, desktop environment, RAM and so on. You can set your details through the User Control Panel, specifically this page. It's updated on the 1st of every month, with whatever people have given as their current information.
I know, exciting stuff, right? It's going to be interesting to see what the most popular GPU is amongst our readers.
Totally unrelated, but I also added the ability for anyone to hide the announcement bars above the news. Just click the little cross and it will set a cookie for 60 days to not show it. I went with that method so regular visitors who don't login, can also hide them. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
As a result of these changes, any GPU Model you previously entered manually has been wiped (lots of weird spellings). Sorry, but it's the easiest way to make it accurate going forward. Now you only need to enter a couple characters and it will search and hopefully find your exact model for you to click.
I'm not currently including NVIDIA Quadro, because that's a workstation card. Same for the AMD FirePro stuff. However, if we get repeated requests to add them in, I might, but I doubt they're that used in our audience. I bet you will surprise me though...
If we really are missing a proper GPU, let me know in the comments. I would be surprised, since we have over 500 in the database.
If you've no idea what I'm talking about: see the user statistics page here for all the goodness. You can see the most popular distribution, desktop environment, RAM and so on. You can set your details through the User Control Panel, specifically this page. It's updated on the 1st of every month, with whatever people have given as their current information.
I know, exciting stuff, right? It's going to be interesting to see what the most popular GPU is amongst our readers.
Totally unrelated, but I also added the ability for anyone to hide the announcement bars above the news. Just click the little cross and it will set a cookie for 60 days to not show it. I went with that method so regular visitors who don't login, can also hide them. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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ProfessorKaos64 Jul 31, 2017
Quoting: no_information_hereQuoting: GuestFor anyone not sure about what model GPU they're running, something like the following may help:Hmm. Not so useful in my case (Neon/Ubuntu 16.04). For "lspci | grep VGA" I get:
lspci | grep VGA
(that assumes you have lspci available of course)
GLX can also query information:
glxinfo | grep Device
There are other ways as well, depending on the distro used. I'm not really up to speed on all the graphical tools available, so I encourage people to suggest alternatives.
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 1c82 (rev a1)
...which probably doesn't help for this survey. For glxinfo I get nothing. In the Nvidia control panel, it tells me the card model on the "XScreen 0" tab. Your instructions may be more revealing for people running Mesa?
(I knew my card, but wanted work it out from scratch like you suggested).
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-tell-which-graphics-vga-card-installed/
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Quoting: roothorickThink you can throw in VR stats next? Just "Own a VR system? yes/no" for now, maybe break it down by system if it ever gets over 5% people having something.Ahhh yes. The big VR question, i will be sure to add that next.
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The new statistics are up. This includes the new GPU graph with data captured from 340 people. Hopefully next month it will give a better picture with more people adding there's in. There was a small bug where the full details dropdown was empty, as there's no data from a previous month. I've now fixed that to show all the data no matter if there's no previous month :)
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Also to the one person who I asked via email, I forgot who, Puppy Linux is now an option and has an icon like all the others :)
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Quoting: liamdaweThe new statistics are up. This includes the new GPU graph with data captured from 340 people. Hopefully next month it will give a better picture with more people adding there's in. There was a small bug where the full details dropdown was empty, as there's no data from a previous month. I've now fixed that to show all the data no matter if there's no previous month :)
Even with the small sample size I think this may still confirm something I've long suspected about Valve's data, which is that it counts every installed GPU, even if it isn't enabled, on Linux where Windows will just not report hardware to any software unless that hardware is enabled.
That's an issue I care about largely because if any significant minority of the AAA developers/publishers are relying on Valve's publicly reported data (or a closely related private dataset) to determine whether enough of the Linux community have hardware that can even handle a game as part of their number crunching to determine whether a port is viable, Valve is essentially telling them at least 25% of us (from the June 2017 data are using on board Intel GPUs. That in turn suggests that the Linux market is even smaller for their products than the current 2.5% general Linux market share (per netmarketshare.com) would. My own math works that out as a difference (assuming from summer sale peak active users) of ~200,000 potential sales on paper which can easily be enough to swap the value proposition of porting from "at least it's good PR and consumer good will with some profit margin to be had" to "that'll be a negative profit margin, nope".
With the lack of AAA games on Linux compared to Windows being the major thing that's stalled me getting friends to even try a Linux distro, an experience I strongly suspect to not just be a narrow anecdotal one, that makes this another potent vicious cycle our community may be stuck in.
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no_information_here Aug 3, 2017
Quoting: tuxintuxedoYup, that did it. Thanks. I didn't know about that command.Quoting: no_information_hereHmm. Not so useful in my case (Neon/Ubuntu 16.04). For "lspci | grep VGA" I get:You might want to try the update-pciids command (maybe sudo is needed).
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 1c82 (rev a1)
...which probably doesn't help for this survey. For glxinfo I get nothing. In the Nvidia control panel, it tells me the card model on the "XScreen 0" tab. Your instructions may be more revealing for people running Mesa?
(I knew my card, but wanted work it out from scratch like you suggested).
Quoting: LeopardProbably you are using a laptop with switchable graphics? Intel Hd and NvidiaNo, desktop NVidia card.
If you didn't set Bumblebee or Nvidia Prime probably that's why you can't see your gpu
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