The newest Steam {Hardware} Survey outcomes are out they usually present that the most well-liked graphics card used on Steam proper now’s the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060. This continues a long-running pattern of Nvidia’s 60-series gaming GPUs taking the highest spot on the chart, with the RTX 3060 and GTX 1060 each holding the title beforehand.
Whereas the Steam {Hardware} Survey isn’t absolutely the final phrase on the recognition of all GPUs, the sheer variety of avid gamers on the service – simply final week it handed the milestone of 40 million lively Steam gamers – means it’s a terrific indicator of the broader PC gaming neighborhood. As such, it’s protected to say this Nvidia GPU is certainly very broadly used, even when the RTX 4060 can’t declare to be the easiest graphics card obtainable proper now.
Valve releases the Steam {Hardware} Survey on the finish of every month (by way of this hyperlink), with it displaying the most well-liked gaming GPUs used to play video games on the service, together with the most well-liked CPUs by model, clock pace, and variety of CPU cores. The working system avid gamers use to entry Steam, together with the variety of VR headsets, variety of Mac customers, and whether or not avid gamers are utilizing a DirectX 10, 11, or 12 GPU are additionally tracked. You may see the total vary of tracked options within the pictures under – proper click on or maintain down your finger on them to view in full measurement.
Over time, some of the enduringly widespread GPUs on the platform has been the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060. Notably, the direct successor to the GTX 1060, the RTX 2060 (the primary mid-range card of the ray tracing-enabled RTX period) by no means truly took the highest spot as, together with the remainder of the RTX 2000 sequence, it was comparatively underwhelming when it got here to total efficiency.
As a substitute, it was the RTX 3000 sequence that actually began to drag avid gamers away from the GTX period. The RTX 3060 took the highest spot on the Steam {Hardware} Survey again in October 2023, lastly displacing the GTX 1060. Now, one other 18 months later and it’s the RTX 4060 that has lastly unseated the RTX 3060.
Not solely has the RTX 4060 taken that spot, however the extent to which it now dominates the charts is stunning. It has jumped 3.97% within the final month to now account for 8.57% of all GPUs utilized by Steam customers (who participated within the optionally available survey). The following hottest GPU is the RTX 3060 with 6.87%, whereas we’ve seen vital jumps for another RTX 4000 sequence playing cards too.
The RTX 4070 rose 2.54% to now be fourth on the chart with 5.43% of the full GPU utilization. The RTX 4070 Tremendous additionally jumped 1.6%, though the laptop computer RTX 4060 truly dropped by 0.91%.
As for a way AMD and Intel are faring on this chart, it’s not nice information. Just one AMD GPU noticed any rise in utilization, with the relatively previous AMD Radeon RX 6750 GRE rising 0.1%. In the meantime, no particular person Intel Arc GPUs make it onto the listing in any respect. Curiously, AMD additionally noticed a detrimental consequence within the CPU charts this month, with its chips dropping 5.12% whereas Intel CPU utilization rose 5.14%.
As you would possibly count on given all of the latest speak of RTX 5090 inventory and even RTX 5070 Ti inventory being so laborious to acquire, none of Nvidia’s latest RTX 5000 sequence playing cards make it onto the Steam {Hardware} Survey this month, however we wouldn’t be stunned to see a number of of those playing cards sneak onto the underside of the chart over the subsequent few months. Though, with AMD’s just-announced RX 9070 XT worth, perhaps we might lastly see AMD make some constructive progress on the chart within the close to future.
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