Steam’s most popular graphics card is an Nvidia GPU that was first released in February 2021. According to the latest Steam hardware survey for October 2025, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 is the most used card on the platform at 4.47%.
It’s a slight increase from the 4.41% share the card had in September.
Speaking of September, the month’s most popular card, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU, saw its share fall from 4.84% to 4.30%. It was still good for second.
Rounding out the top five for October were the GeForce RTX 4060, RTX 3050, and GTX 1650 at three to five, respectively. Interestingly enough, the GTX 1650 was released six years ago in April 2019. Even the GTX 1060, which Nvidia announced it was ending support for earlier this year, still has a 1.95% share.
For those looking for non-Nvidia graphics cards, you have to go to ninth on the list for AMD Radeon Graphics to make an appearance. Intel’s Iris Xe Graphics, which has a 1.9% share, appears at 15.
You can check out the full survey results for yourself via Steam’s website, including where your GPU sits in the hardware survey.
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That’s always the case- the most popular GPU is always a mid-range Nvidia GPU from a couple generations ago
Seeing results like this makes me realize I needs to just play with the hardware I have and quit FPS chasing.
If it’s the same data I saw on Reddit the rx580 and 590 we’re listed twice with two separate percentages since they’re basically the same I feel like all four stats should be combined. Probably still wouldn’t take the trophy but the thought of the rx winning something I like this is a bit hilarious.
I have the rtx 3060 laptop and I think is an okay graphics card. This article doesn’t even make the distinction as to whether you’re referring to the desktop instead of the laptop variant. Lol… But seriously the rtx 3060 laptop runs my games pretty decently even with my 5120×1440 monitor ultra wide monitor. I play fortnight, overwatch 2, call of duty warzone, and a whole bunch of others just by tweaking the settings down a bit. I can’t even imagine what the desktop outputs. Actually, the laptop is capable of beating the desktop in terms of average fps however it usually has worse one percent lows… Not to mention the 6GB of vram compared the 12GB on the desktop variant.