Steam survey sees a shake-up as a new top graphics card is revealed

What just happened? There’s a new top graphics card on the Steam survey. After seeing a comparatively huge 4% increase in users, the RTX 4060 has replaced the RTX 3060 as the most popular GPU among participants of Valve’s survey. There was also an unexpected 5% jump in the number of people using Intel CPUs, which points to February being another one of those months where the results were anomalous.

February saw the user share for both the RTX 4060 and RTX 4060 Ti jump by 3.97% and 3.11%, respectively. That’s a huge increase compared to the less than 1% changes we usually see each month.

The rest of the top 12 performers of the month are made up of variants of RTX xx60 and RTX xx70 cards from the Lovelace, Ampere, and Turing generations.

Best-performing GPUs among Steam survey participants during February

The RTX 4060 has been catching up to the RTX 3060 for a while now, so it’s not too surprising that it’s taken the lead, but leapfrogging its predecessor with a 4% increase is unusual. As with the top performers, the most popular cards are made of xx60 and xx70 GPUs.

February also saw the overall number of Nvidia GPUs on the table increase. Team Green now accounts for 83% of products on the list. AMD has 11.5%, and Intel has 5.2%.

Most popular GPUs among Steam survey participants during February

Another strange result was in the CPU section. AMD has spent months eroding Intel’s lead, with Team Red hitting a record 36.19% share in January. But February saw AMD fall 5% as Intel rose by the same amount – a contrast to what we’ve seen in the retail space this year.

In further evidence that this is one of those weird Steam survey months, Windows 10, which had fallen below Windows 11 as the most-used OS among participants, suddenly retook the top spot after its share skyrocketed by 10.5% as Windows 11 dropped just over 9%.

Windows 10 reaches its end of support date on October 14, 2025. According to Statcounter, its global user share has dropped over the last two months, from 62.7% in December to 58.7% in February, while Windows 11 has seen its share climb.

Elsewhere on Valve’s survey, 32GB suddenly became the most popular amount of VRAM following a 13.7% gain and those using 16GB fell by 8%. There’s also a new most-popular language, Simplified Chinese, which saw its usage go up 20% to take a 50% overall share as English fell 10%.

There was similar strangeness in the survey results back in October 2023, with unusually large changes in a lot of categories, including Chinese going up almost 14%. Things returned to normal a month later, so March’s survey could look very different.

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