Valve named the most popular Steam graphics cards in April 2026 and confirmed the importance of Russian localization

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03 May 06:01

Valve summarizes the results of the traditional Steam user survey. The company collected information about the hardware used, the selected language, and the operating system.

Recently, the results of the April 2026 survey were released. Steam shows a decrease in the share of English and a slight increase in Simplified Chinese.

Russian is still in the top 3 most popular languages, and its share increased by almost 0.93% compared to last month.

Most popular graphics cards in April 2026:

  • NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 — 4.15%
  • NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 — 4.05%
  • NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU — 3.98%
  • NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 — 3.20%
  • NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 — 3.01%
  • NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 — 2.71%
  • NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 — 2.70%
  • NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti — 2.57%
  • NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti — 2.42%

Share of Intel and AMD processors, most popular frequencies in April 2026:

  • AMD — 45.19%
  • Intel — 54.81%
  • 2.3 Ghz to 2.69 Ghz — 21.84%
  • 3.3 Ghz to 3.69 Ghz — 12.84%
  • 2.7 Ghz to 2.99 Ghz — 8.91%

Most popular OS in April 2026:

  • Windows — 93.47 (of this group, 67.74% have Win 11 64-bit. 25.63% have Win 10 and only 0.07% have Win 7)
  • OSX — 2.01%
  • Linux — 4.52%

Most popular resolution in April 2026:

  • 1920 x 1080 — 52.51%
  • 2560 x 1440 — 21.41%
  • 3840 x 2160 — 5.09%

Most popular Steam languages in April 2026:

  • English — 36.77% (-2.32%)
  • Simplified Chinese — 23.41% (+0.66%)
  • Russian — 10.14% (+0.93%)
  • Spanish — 4.22%