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

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

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

The survey results for October 2026 were recently published. Steam is seeing a decline in the share of Simplified Chinese and an increase in the share of English. Russian remains in the top 3 most popular languages.

The most popular graphics cards in October 2026:

• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 — 3.78%
• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 — 3.78%
• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU — 3.60%
• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 — 3.51%
• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 — 3.25%
• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 — 3.15%
• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti — 2.70%
• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GPU — 2.68%
• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 — 2.44%
• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti — 2.30%

Intel and AMD processor market share, the most popular clock speeds in October 2026:

• Intel — 52.63%
• AMD — 47.37%
• 2.3 GHz to 2.69 GHz — 20.75%
• 3.3 GHz to 3.69 GHz — 12.07%
• 2.7 GHz to 2.99 GHz — 8.42%

The most popular OS in October 2026:

• Windows — 93.70%
• OSX — 2.35%
• Linux — 3.95%

The most popular resolution in October 2026:

• 1920 x 1080 — 50.23%
• 2560 x 1440 — 21.82%
• 2560 x 1600 — 5.46%

The most popular Steam languages in October 2026:

• English — 39.04%
• Simplified Chinese — 21.98%
• Russian — 10.14%
• Spanish — 4.83%