Valve summarizes the results of the traditional Steam user survey. The company collected information about the hardware used, the chosen language, and the operating system.
Recently, the results of the September 2026 survey were released. Steam shows a decrease in the share of English and a sharp increase in the share of Chinese (Simplified). Russian remains among the top 3 most popular languages.
Most popular graphics cards in September 2026:
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 — 6.15%
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 — 4.40%
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti — 4.06%
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 — 3.89%
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 — 3.66%
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU — 3.50%
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 — 2.90%
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti — 2.85%
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GPU — 2.45%
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 — 2.19%
Share of Intel and AMD processors, most popular frequencies in September 2026:
- AMD — 48.37%
- Intel — 51.63%
- 2.3 Ghz to 2.69 Ghz — 20.39%
- 3.3 Ghz to 3.69 Ghz — 12.46%
- 2.7 Ghz to 2.99 Ghz — 8.28%
Most popular OS in September 2026:
- Windows — 95.05% (of this group, 71.34% use Windows 11 64-bit, Windows 10 — 23.61%)
- OSX — 1.92%
- Linux — 3.05%
Most popular resolution in September 2026:
- 1920 x 1080 — 47.91%
- 2560 x 1440 — 27.04%
- 2560 x 160 — 5.22%
Most popular Steam languages in September 2026:
- Simplified Chinese — 31.39%
- English — 34.20%
- Russian — 9.05%
- Spanish — 4.08%