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I believe the 3060 has taken the 1060's crown: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-rtx-3060-begins-its...

Especially once we take into account that the "1060" is actually a merging of multiple 1060 SKUs (including mobile) with pretty different performance

Mostly because crypto idiots abused them to run hashing functions on pseudorandom numbers in hopes of winning the script kiddie lotto.

> A very tiny percentage of PC gamers have the kind of rigs you are envisioning.

I'm not talking about the people buying i7s and 4090s. 100% agree they are a tiny minority. I'm talking about the same modest setups you are.

Even a 1060 (or it's modern equivalent) with an i3 and a 24 inch 1080p panel is more expensive than a PS5/Xbox. And I think it's becoming increasing rare for a family to have a desktop pc unless it's for gaming.

Another reading of that data is that about half of gamers are on laptops and the other half upgrade their GPUs every 5-6 years.