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What just happened? It's a case of another month, another new top GPU on Valve's Steam survey results. For the first time in over three years, the most popular product among participants is a laptop GPU, which replaces the RTX 3060 as leader. April also saw two more RTX 5000 cards enter the main GPU chart, and AMD once again reach a record CPU share.
The RTX 4060 laptop GPU has been steadily gaining ground over the last few months in the Steam survey's GPU chart. It experienced the largest increase in users in April, up 0.51%, pushing the mobile Lovelace chip to the top spot with a 4.99% overall share. It's the first laptop GPU to hold the number one position since the RTX 3060 laptop briefly took the top spot in February 2022.
The only other cards in the top 13 that saw gains were the RTX 4060 Ti, RTX 3050, and RTX 3060 laptop GPU.
Most popular GPUs among Steam survey participants in April
The month's top performers include the RTX 5070 and RTX 5070 Ti, which have joined the RTX 5080 as the chart's current Blackwell cards. AMD will also be pleased to see that the Radeon RX 7800 XT has finally gained enough users to warrant an entry, one year and seven months after its release. Still no sign of the RX 7800 XTX, though.
Top performing GPUs among Steam survey participants in April
One area where AMD can truly celebrate is the CPU section. For years, Team Red has been chipping away at Intel's once-dominant lead.
Thanks to AMD processors such as the Ryzen 9800X3D being incredibly popular among gamers and the disappointment of Intel's latest Core Ultra series, Lisa Su's firm has reached its highest-ever user share in the Steam survey's CPU section: 38.68%. Expect four out of every ten users to be on Team Red's side soon enough.
Moving on to the operating system chart, it appears that Windows 10's impending November 11 end-of-support date is having a notable effect. Survey participants have grimly held on to the previous-gen OS for a long time, but its user base continues to slip every month as Windows 11's numbers grow. The older Windows now has a 38% share, while the newest version has reached almost 58%.
This trend isn't just happening on Steam. Statcounter's figures show that there is less than a 10% share now separating the two versions as Windows 11 keeps making gains while Windows 10 declines.
Something else that could change this year is the most popular amount of system RAM in users' machines. 16GB is becoming less popular all the time, having fallen to 43.8%, as more people turn to 32GB, which is now at 33.5%.
Wrapping things up, English remains the top language despite falling slightly as Simplified Chinese jumped 2% in April. The Oculus Quest 2 is the most popular VR headset, though the Meta Quest 3 is only 5% behind it. And 1080p is still the most popular monitor resolution by far, used by over 55% of participants.
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