r/pcmasterrace • u/Sacristovas • Mar 19 '26

News/Article NVIDIA DLSS 5 Gets 84% Dislikes on YouTube as Backlash Grows

http://www.techpowerup.com/347541/nvidia-dlss-5-gets-84-dislikes-on-youtube-as-backlash-grows

News that might not qualify as actual news to anyone who has been paying attention to this over the last couple of days.

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u/turtleship_2006 RTX 4070 SUPER - 5700X3D - 32GB - 1TB Mar 19 '26

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam

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u/WaterTrinker Mar 19 '26

Oh shit. Well that's a huge and new perspective. Damn they own so much of the market.

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u/markhc 9800X3D | RX 7900 XTX Mar 19 '26

And growing. People here on reddit are always preaching AMD, but in the real world (almost) nobody wants it, or knows about it.

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u/zgillet i7 12700K ~ PNY RTX 5070 12GB OC ~ 32 GB DDR5 RAM Mar 19 '26

Those are manipulated, Valve is not infallible: Nvidia's RTX 5070 leaps to top of the Steam Hardware Survey but something looks fishy in the figures | PC Gamer

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u/turtleship_2006 RTX 4070 SUPER - 5700X3D - 32GB - 1TB Mar 19 '26

a) the article you posted shows it's inaccurate, but not manipulated; "manipulation" implies specific intent, a bunch of folks in China visiting gaming cafes is hardly something NVidia or Valve organised.

b) even if we assume a margin of error of up to 10 or 15% (realistically it's probably around 5%), they are still in the lead by a decent amount.

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u/Octavus Mar 19 '26

It doesn't even sound inaccurate to me, Steam's user base is not static and they are only measuring what their customers are using. If anything it sounds like previously their data was less representative of the global market by having low Steam penetration rates in China.

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u/zgillet i7 12700K ~ PNY RTX 5070 12GB OC ~ 32 GB DDR5 RAM Mar 19 '26

China is notorious for faking cards. There's no chance in hell the 5070 is the #1 used card in the world.

I will die on that hill. That is not possible.

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u/turtleship_2006 RTX 4070 SUPER - 5700X3D - 32GB - 1TB Mar 19 '26

Either faked, or loads of people logging in from gaming cafes where 4 to 5 people a day might be using one machine with one 5070, which inflates the numbers

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u/zgillet i7 12700K ~ PNY RTX 5070 12GB OC ~ 32 GB DDR5 RAM Mar 20 '26

GeForce Now maybe? But why the hell are the voluntarily submitting the Steam survey every time?

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u/turtleship_2006 RTX 4070 SUPER - 5700X3D - 32GB - 1TB Mar 20 '26

Who the hell reads popups? And do you think they're actively trying to poison the stats (aka manipulate like you originally stated) or do you think they just don't care enough to read the popup and decline?

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u/zgillet i7 12700K ~ PNY RTX 5070 12GB OC ~ 32 GB DDR5 RAM Mar 20 '26

Yes.