Steam survey's top graphics card changes again as four RTX 5000 GPUs enter chart

[midian182]

In brief: Once again, a new month has brought a new top GPU in Valve's Steam survey. For the second time this year, a laptop model has replaced the RTX 3060 as the most popular choice among participants. June also saw several new RTX 5000 GPUs enter the chart, while AMD continued to chip away at Intel's lead in the CPU category.

The latest Steam survey results, which were delayed by a day, show that the RTX 4060 laptop GPU was once again the most popular among participants during June. It previously topped the April survey, but lost its crown to the RTX 3060 a month later. Now, the mobile chip is back on top.

Most popular GPUs among Steam survey participants in June

There were an unusually high number of new entries in the main GPU chart. We tend to see one or maybe two of these, but there were five in June, including the top three best performers of the month: the RTX 5060 laptop GPU, an "Nvidia graphics device," and the RTX 5060. That graphics device mostly represents people playing Steam games on cloud PCs, such as Nvidia GeForce Now users.

Despite its shockingly high price and limited availability, the RTX 5090 has entered the main chart with a 0.19% share, while the final new entry is another mobile GPU, the RTX 5070 laptop GPU. Overall, it was a good month for Nvidia's Lovelace series, which has been called the company's worst architecture in recent times.

Top performing GPUs among Steam survey participants in June

With an almost 75% share, Nvidia still has the vast majority of GPUs in the chart. AMD's Radeon RX 9000 series is yet to make an appearance, and its highest entry, the Radeon RX 6600, is in 28th place.

Moving over to the CPU section, AMD continued its long-running trend of increasing its user share as Intel's declines. Team Red processors are now found in 39.56% of participants' PCs, while Team Blue is down to 60.27%. It likely won't be long before AMD CPUs are found in four out of every ten devices, something that seemed impossible just a few years ago.

Elsewhere in the survey, Windows 11 is now by far the most popular OS. It's just a few percentage points away from a 60% share, while Windows 10 fell again, down to 35.6%. With the older version's end-of-support date (October 14), just over three months away, expect the rate of its decline to increase.

There are few changes across the rest of the survey. 1080p remains the most common resolution – something that AMD's Franz Azor highlighted as a reason why the company still makes 8GB cards – most people have 16GB of system RAM, and English remains the most common language.

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Steam survey's top graphics card changes again as four RTX 5000 GPUs enter chart

 

[godrilla]

Huang if you build it the whales will come. So confused how the $3000 Nvidia card made the list but the the card that was supposed to take some market share back 9070/xt didn't even make the cut? Maybe that's why the rumors are AMD is peddling back to the enthusiast market to compete with Blackwell Supers . Hopefully current drivers with significant performance improvements 8% average vs launch driver for RDNA4 helps them as well.
Maybe people are playing LLM games.
Also it seems the 5090 gained survey listing just when the shelves are filled with them and prices stabilizing around $2719 ( lowest price currently) which is hundreds to thousands of dollars cheaper than just a few months ago. Prices dropping at a rate of $100 per week recently and slightly plautauing.


Wow my predictions are on point the 5090 just dropped to $2499. ( Contrary to what Nvidia claimed that prices will go up from lower supply as a last hoora for the naive buyer)
Update 3 month prediction that prices will stabilize closer to MSRP by black Friday.

 

[Mihai S]

Is this the same Steam survey that only pops up when I use an Nvidia GPU?

In the last several years, I have used 7–8 different AMD GPUs and never once did the survey initiate. But, as soon as I installed my new Nvidia GPU, at the first Steam launch, the survey popped up.

Make of that what you will. I’m not saying it’s rigged, I’m saying it’s broken, and I don’t really trust it.

 

[OortCloud]

9070 completely absent because AMD are up to their usual tricks and tried to sell it at way too high a price (ignore the RRP) and it's now tanking. I expect the price cut will come in about 4-6 months by which time the world will have moved on and yet another generation of AMD graphics card will have come and gone without making any dent in Nvidia's domination. This is especially sad as firstly the 9070XT is a capable card and secondly Nvidia have been trolling the industry since the 30 series and still AMD can't compete.

 

[themastergoose]

I'm aware the Steam survey invites are random and create huge inconsistency, but with 3 months of the 9070 XT being on the market and (apparently) being in high demand, you'd have thought the install base is big enough now. Even with the randomness, chances are high to hit on enough users using one to show up across Steam's userbase at least somewhere.

The RTX 5060, 70, 80 and 90 all make the list, but AMD's highest ranking discrete GPU is the RX 6600. Something seems off. According to an article on Techpowerup last month, they claim AMD lost further Radeon market share post-launch of the RX 9070 class - a stark contrast to the message retailers and AMD keep saying over demand and sales of the cards.

So do I conclude Steam's hardware survey is broken, or are retailers and AMD are overstating sales and demand?

 

[AnilD]

AMD slowly creeping toward 40% CPU share feels like the quietest underdog comeback in tech. They went from punchline to legit competitor without needing a flashy launch every 6 months.

 

[airbornex]

It’s wild that a laptop GPU is topping the Steam charts again... it shows how far mobile chips have come. Ten years ago, playing AAA games on a laptop was a compromise; now it’s the default setup for a big chunk of the gaming community.

 

[Beerfloat]

So do I conclude Steam's hardware survey is broken, or are retailers and AMD are overstating sales and demand?

AMD doesn't give actual numbers and MindFactory means **** all.