Yes, yes, Valve's Steam hardware surveys can be problematic and occasionally throw up anomalies that can't possibly reflect the reality of gamer's rigs (there's one such potential glitch to follow, so hang in there). I'm way ahead of you. But for the record, the first Nvidia RTX 50 GPU to break cover in the survey is the RTX 5080, which kinda makes sense.
It was, of course, the monstrous RTX 5090, which is the kind of mega-GPU that people snap up for all kinds of weird and wonderful workflows.
Anyway, the RTX 5080 enters the list of most popular GPUs among Steam s with 0.2% market share. Not exactly a huge chunk, but then the single most popular GPU only has about a 5% share. That's still the RTX 3060, FYI, with the RTX 4060 in second place, just a few 10ths of a percentage point behind.
In case you're interested in this kind of thing, the first '70-class GPU on the list is the RTX 3070 in 8th place with 2.87% of Steam gamers, while the 4070 is in 11th spot with 2.49%.
As for AMD, a non-specific "Radeon Graphics" entry notches up 13th place and 2.17%, while the first AMD GPU called out by name is the RX 6600 with 0.89% share.
AMD remains utterly swamped by Nvidia in the list, of course. RX 7700 XT is in there at 0.22%, just a few spots ahead of the RTX 5080.
Other notable stats include AMD Us gaining 6.55% share, while Intel lost 6.59%. As for the aforementioned anomaly, well, the proportion of s with the Chinese version of Windows installed literally fell by half, from around 50% share last month to 25% for March.
Superficially, that seems hugely improbable. Very large installed bases don't change that fast. However, some observers point out that it's actually the February data that's anomalous, showing a huge spike in Chinese language Windows installs, with March a return to the norm.
However, even that February data may not be a weird as it seems. It coincided with Chinese new year, a period where many Chinese citizens have time off work which can lead to a sharp season spike in activities like online gaming.
Whatever, we'll be keeping our scanners peeled in the coming months for mention of the fastest selling Radeons ever, so surely they'll pop up in the survey, soon right...?
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