NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Is Now The Most Popular GPU On Steam

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There's no doubt of NVIDIA's popularity among gamers and that can be seen on Steam's Hardware Survey where GeForce GPUs continue to secure the top spot as the most popular options with the latest statistics showing the RTX 3060 as the top choice.

As per the latest Steam Hardware Survey figures of March 2023, NVIDIA commands 82.63% of the share while AMD commands just 10.82% share amongst almost 135 Million users of which around 26-27 Million users were actively concurrently (at its peak). If you look at the more detailed figures, the vast majority of these GPUs are now DX12 compliant (94.47%), and full DX12 systems running a modern-day GPU now amount to 76.15% share.

This aligns with the operating systems used by the gamers as 73.95% of Steam's userbase is now running a Windows 10 64-bit while 22.41% are running Windows 11 64-bit. Considering that Steam has officially announced the end of support for Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 systems, they're now meant to go on a decline as users upgrade to the latest OS.

So coming back to GPUs, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 has now replaced the GTX 1650 as the most popular graphics card on the platform. This means that a vast majority of gamers are running this graphics card on their PC. A 10.67% share is also much higher than that of 1650 which had a 6.12% share by the end of February 2023.

The most important thing to note here is the pricing of the card which is also much higher than 1650. This shows that gamers are willing to pay for a higher-end and costly graphics card if it provides value and given just how many RTX 3060s were dumped into the used market and discounted after the crypto crash, this was to be expected. Over the years, we have seen the NVIDIA 70, 60, and