Valve continues to survey PC gamers who use Steam. The company then publishes statistics on the hardware used in the public domain.
Data for the past month was recently presented, and it became possible to "assemble" an average PC using the information received about the components.
Characteristics of the "average" PC as of May 2026:
- Operating system: Windows 11, 64-bit
- RAM: 16 GB RAM
- Processor frequency (Intel): 2.3 Ghz - 2.69 Ghz
- Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
- Video memory: 8 GB
- Main monitor resolution: 1920 x 1080 — used by 51.89% of surveyed users; the second most popular resolution is 2560 x 1440 (21.20% share)
- Total storage capacity: more than 1 TB
- Free storage space: 100 – 249 GB
- Language used: English
Top 10 popular graphics cards in May 2026 (according to Steam user survey data):
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 — 4.02%
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU — 3.99%
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 — 3.74%
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 — 3.28%
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 — 3.09%
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 — 2.70%
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 — 2.58%
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti — 2.45%
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti — 2.27%
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 — 2.08%