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

Valve surveyed users and collected information about their systems, resolution used, and language preferences.

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.

The results of the August 2026 survey have recently been released. Steam shows a decrease in the share of English and an increase in Simplified Chinese.

Russian is still among the top 3 most popular languages, and its share has increased by almost 0.60% compared to last month.

The most popular graphics cards in August 2026:

• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 — 3.92%
• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU — 3.84%
• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 — 3.77%
• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 — 3.60%
• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 — 3.21%
• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 — 3.16%
• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GPU — 2.66%
• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti — 2.55%
• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 — 2.49%
• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti — 2.37%
• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti — 2.16%

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

• AMD — 46.47%
• Intel — 53.53%
• 2.3 Ghz to 2.69 Ghz — 21.13%
• 3.3 Ghz to 3.69 Ghz — 12.30%
• 2.7 Ghz to 2.99 Ghz — 8.79%

Most popular OS in August 2026:

• Windows — 93.95% (of this group, 70.97% use Win 11 64-bit. 25.90% — Win 10 and Win 7 only 0.06% of respondents)
• OSX — 2.14%
• Linux — 3.90%

Most popular resolution in August 2026:

• 1920 x 1080 — 50.52%
• 2560 x 1440 — 21.86%
• 3840 x 2160 — 4.98%

Most popular Steam languages in August 2026:

• English — 38.25% (1.36% decrease in share)
• Simplified Chinese — 23.97% (+1.45%)
• Russian — 9.90% (+0.93%)
• Spanish — 4.53%