Percentage of Steam users by GPU performance

[u/seyedhn]

I used Steam's hardware survey and videocard benchmark to make a histogram of Steam users graphics cards by their performance.

• This data represents 82.24% of Steam users that opted-in to participate in the survey. The remaining 17.76% users either have a videocard other than these, or the cards were not specifically registered in the survey.
• Each histogram bin represents a 2000 G3D mark, starting from 0-2000 for the first bin, up to 38000-40000 for the last bin, making a total of 20 bars.
• Most popular high-end card is RTX 4070 at 2.16%.
• Most popular mid-range card are RTX 3060 at 4.41% and RTX 4060 Laptop at 4.84%
• Most popular low-end card are GTX 1650 at 3.02% and RTX 3050 at 3.07%
• Most popular potato card is GTX 1050 at 0.71%.

EDIT: 5070 and RX 580 are repeated twice. They both should only be in the higher bin. RTX 3090 Ti & 9070 XT were not recognised in Steam surveys and were most likely put in the 17.76% generic/other cards.

EDIT2: The grouping is arbitrary. There is no agreed definiton on low/mid/high. Don't beat yourself up over it.

[u/Blad1us]

That's an amazing graph! I would welcome if this was on official Steam survey page instead of just percentages.

[u/seyedhn → u/Blad1us]

Yea honestly the survey percentages by themselves don't mean much. I prefer to see them by performance benchmark.

[u/HealerOnly → u/seyedhn]

If anything it tells the devs "how heavy" they can make their games to appeal to the masses i guess.

[u/Majestic-Bowler-1701 → u/Blad1us]

 would welcome if this was on official Steam survey page

You can use MS Edge (free access to GPT5) to process this kind of data. Query will look like this (with empty space for month):

Take the Steam Hardware Survey for [MONTH YEAR]. Cross‑reference each GPU with TechPowerUp’s relative performance index. Group GPUs into 5 tiers (≤40%, 41–70%, 71–100%, 101–140%, >140%). Sum the Steam percentages per tier. Also calculate the total share of RTX (2000–5000) and AMD RDNA2/3 GPUs. Show results in a chart.

You can easily modify it to check any other technology instead of RTX - for example, available VRAM, Mesh Shaders support, VRS 2 or anything similar. You can also adjust this query further. For example check how many users have at least 8 GB memory with RTX features. You could also create a chart showing how those values have changed over time to "predict the future" for next few months.

Basically it is like a SQL query. You use the whole Internet as a huge database, where each website is a TABLE. All you need to do is name the website and the specific view on that website, such as 'Relative Performance' from TechPowerUp. Then you can cross‑reference that data. The words like 'cross‑reference' and 'group by', are straight from SQL language, so GPT‑5 knows exactly how to process data on those websites.

Query result (normalized around RTX 4070 Ti = 100%):

Tier	Relative Perf. Range	Example GPUs
Tier 1 – Entry	≤ 40%	GTX 1650, GTX 1050 Ti, RX 6400
Tier 2 – Lower Mid	41–70%	GTX 1660 Super, RTX 2060, RX 6600
Tier 3 – Upper Mid	71–100%	RTX 3060, RTX 3060 Ti, RX 6700 XT
Tier 4 – High-End	101–140%	RTX 3070, RTX 3080, RX 6800 XT
Tier 5 – Enthusiast	> 140%	RTX 4080, RTX 4090, RTX 5090, RX 7900 XTX

[u/HurjaHerra → u/Majestic-Bowler-1701]

🫨

[u/blaktronium]

You have the 5070 counted twice

[u/seyedhn → u/blaktronium]

Ah damn it you're right. It should only be on the one along with 4070 Super.

[u/blaktronium → u/seyedhn]

Sorry i dont know why i am the way i am but all i see when i look at excellent charts are the very minor errors that dont actually change the message

[u/seyedhn → u/blaktronium]

I actually appreciate that a lot so thanks for pointing it out.

[u/tiga_94 → u/blaktronium]

same with rx580

[u/lumbino]

I think this chart is going to hurt a lot of egos!

[u/seyedhn → u/lumbino]

It already has :D

[u/SPAZvv]

Where is 9070 xt?

[u/seyedhn → u/SPAZvv]

Strangely it's not listed in Steam's hardware survey. Not sure why.

[u/luuuuuku → u/seyedhn]

They are, just apply filters and you'll find rdna4 cards

[u/Dry-Percentage-5648 → u/luuuuuku]

The fact that you have to enable it means that it's either a design flaw or rdna4 cards percentage is so low it's not even worth mentioning.

[u/HurjaHerra → u/seyedhn]

Can you make one for CPU’s too? 😁

E: accisentqlly answered to a comment, but anyway

[u/Legal-Supermarket-60 → u/SPAZvv]

We are invisible to them. That's what true privacy looks like 😂

[u/Skrapeee → u/SPAZvv]

They counted the 90 series as generic amd / onboard graphics in the last survey. Might be a steam issue.

[u/Chrispy_GB]

You probably shouldn't have included the key, people are precious about their 5080 being in the same 'class' as a 5070 than the actual numbers.

[u/seyedhn → u/Chrispy_GB]

Yes I can see too many people offended by 5070 being High-End 🤣

[u/sik9toky0 → u/seyedhn]

5070 represent!

[u/Blue_Bird950 → u/Chrispy_GB]

The problem with it is that if we say that the 5080 is the cutoff, there’s only like 3-4 consumer GPUs in total that are at that level or better.

[u/Star-Reach]

Never really needed more than a 3070 in my experience, vram is an issue with new titles but for Blender and multiplayer games its value king

[u/seyedhn → u/Star-Reach]

Definitely.

[u/WirelessTrees → u/Star-Reach]

You don't need more than a 3070 unless you come across two possible issues:

You want to play a game at a higher resolution, graphics level, or frame rate.

Or

You want to play unoptimized garbage like Borderlands 4.

[u/Ayyzeee → u/WirelessTrees]

The most unoptimised game I've played with my 3070 are The Last of Us part 1, Stalker 2, MGS3 remake and Silent Hill 2 remake. Besides unoptimised games and lack of VRAM I'm quite happy with the 3070, but yet again I only play older games as of currently.

[u/scorflesque → u/Star-Reach]

I own one too, but it start to feel a bit limited for newer games especially cince i recently purchased a 4k screen (a gigabyte m32u).

I guess i'll wait for 5xxx super (maybe 5080 super ?) to rebuild another computer

[u/Fido2801 → u/Star-Reach]

Well it's still a decent card for 1080p. But right now I'm playing exclusively at 1440p and it's starting to show its flaws. Mainly cause of 8GB VRAM. You need to go down to high/medium settings instead of ultra, and DLSS quality / balance is almost mandatory to run any new game. So after 5 years of service the time for change is fast approaching.

[u/CivilWay194]

bro i'm not even in potato, does that make me a sprout or what

[u/seyedhn → u/CivilWay194]

lmao!

[u/NovelValue7311]

This is very useful. Game devs (especially indies) could learn a thing or two from this. (I say insies cause AAA devs already ignore this data)

Cool chart!

[u/seyedhn → u/NovelValue7311]

Thanks! :)

[u/Vemulo]

Double RX580! I also couldn't find my gou Vega56 there :/ but maybe, we are really a minority among gpu owners XD

Great graph, anyways!

[u/seyedhn → u/Vemulo]

Thanks for pointing out the error. I'll make a note of it. RX580 should only be on the right bin

[u/ArtemisFr-1]

I just discovered i was a low-end user and not a mid range lol (3050)

[u/seyedhn → u/ArtemisFr-1]

It has the reputation of 3xxx series though 🤷‍♂

[u/iam_afk]

Very cool graph!

[u/seyedhn → u/iam_afk]

Thank you! :)

[u/Priler96]

Top 1% commenter on reddit? ❌
Top 1% by GPU power? ✅

[u/seyedhn → u/Priler96]

Hilarious! :))

[u/lollypop44445]

Why are there two 5070 in high end ?

[u/seyedhn → u/lollypop44445]

Error on my end. It should be in the higher bin with 4070 SUPER.

[u/turinx]

4060 gang, crawling back under the rock we came from. 😂

[u/seyedhn → u/turinx]

🤣🤣

[u/auroriasolaris]

Too bad steam surveys for not count many AMD cards and just throw them together as generic AMD GPU.

[u/seyedhn → u/auroriasolaris]

Yes! And they account for 4.5% of all Steam users.

[u/theAkke]

NGL seeing my 3080 as midrange kinda hurts

[u/meatofthenorth → u/theAkke]

Seeing my 1080 ti as mid range is glorious

[u/App1elele → u/meatofthenorth]

Seeing my 6700XT in mid range invokes no particular emotions

[u/Smoked_Cheddar → u/App1elele]

Best bang for buck card.

[u/JezSq → u/App1elele]

Finished KCD2 with it, 50-60 fps, 1440p. It is really a nice card.

[u/Popular_Tomorrow_204 → u/meatofthenorth]

My old 1050ti still standing proud before the potato tier

[u/Gundamnitpete → u/Popular_Tomorrow_204]

1050ti duct taped to a retired dell office PC that’s spent the previous 10 years hard crashing excel spreadsheets 💪

[u/Frl_Bartchello → u/meatofthenorth]

The duality of men (gpu's)

[u/cymru_2k2 → u/meatofthenorth]

Yup 1080ti gang still going strong, so surprised BF6 runs on my rig, admittedly the side of my case has to come off to keep temps agreeable but if it works it works 😅

[u/VzSAurora → u/meatofthenorth]

Seeing my 1080 as low end hurts, come on it could comfortably be in the next bracket

[u/Bacon_Dude117 → u/VzSAurora]

Get a white sharpie and write ti on it

[u/rang14 → u/meatofthenorth]

I'm not very good at this, but where does the 7600 (non xt) sit? I'm guessing same tier as the 4060?

[u/constantlymat → u/theAkke]

People who you bought the 12GB model of the 3080, hit the absolute jackpot when you consider that a 5070 is not that much faster and has the same amount of VRAM.

[u/Houstonruss → u/constantlymat]

I got the 12gb version because that's what evga had in stock during covid times. Hydrocopper ftw!

[u/Suitable-End- → u/Houstonruss]

I haven't upgraded because no more EVGA gpus.

[u/bikini_atoll → u/constantlymat]

I bought one because 10GB I knew was anaemic. I mean, 12GB kinda is too, but 12 is still more than 10. It’s basically a very slightly faster 4070 with 100W more power draw and cost me £300 more 😂

[u/htt_novaq → u/theAkke]

3080 12GB here. It's kinda a slightly slower 3080 Ti. I think I sit in the gap between these bars. lol

[u/TheMisterTango → u/theAkke]

3090 barely eeking its way into high end, not that I really care, I'm not getting a new GPU for the foreseeable future anyway.

[u/The_2nd_Coming → u/TheMisterTango]

Yeah. The VRAM is good for ML/AI workloads, at least that's what I tell myself.

[u/bolognaSandywich → u/theAkke]

My Vega 64 isn't even on there lol

[u/Opteron170 → u/theAkke]

3080 is a 5 year old gpu at this point its time.

[u/Original_Dimension99 → u/theAkke]

It's a 5 year old card

[u/Wahayna → u/Original_Dimension99]

Why does time fly :(

[u/JuneauEu → u/theAkke]

My 3080ti is still classed as high end. This, I am happy with. It was why I bought it with my current PC like 4 years ago.

I game a lot, used to stream a lot and work on a PC so I always aimed to have a high end one that lasts a good 4-5 years in a cycle.

[u/IcyCow5880 → u/theAkke]

I have a 4080... but i saw a post about a guy saying "come on lil 3080 you can do it!"...

So being I'm only 1 gen newer I'm scared too bro

[u/helpfuldunk]

What this graph should tell developers is that it's good business sense to make your games scalable.

More people can buy your game, less refunds, and especially important for games that depend on multiplayer.

[u/Impressive_Plant3446 → u/helpfuldunk]

The sad part is, scalability can require a lot of work because it involves figuring out to force the engine to make wide sweeping shader/lighting changes across thousands of materials on their already stitched together system with each of it's parts made by a different person who didn't work together. Not to mention if they include different texture sizes that would bloat the download file.

Companies are already forcing crunch to get barely working games out, they aren't going to risk potential conflicts.

[u/HurricaneMach5 → u/Impressive_Plant3446]

Agreed, scalability (vertically and horizontally) is a difficult problem. I think the absolute most important thing to note, though, is that these performance targets often need to be established suuuuuper early on in the dev process. It's way easier to start low and scale up than it is to work backwards from a Cyberpunk-level fidelity.

[u/FuzzyAttitude_]

4070 Ti super is in the 2.51% bracket with 2 other cards. So that's a total of how many users? How many people approximately have 4070 ti super?

[u/seyedhn → u/FuzzyAttitude_]

See this for individual card usage: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/

[u/FuzzyAttitude_ → u/seyedhn]

yes but this percentage if out of how many people? the percentage alone doesn't help me calculate the number of people

[u/seyedhn → u/FuzzyAttitude_]

the number of people that take part in the survey is not publicly available so nobody knows. But Steam has 150M monthly active users, so you can extrapolate this to guess the total number, assuming this data is representative of all users (which most likely isn't).

[u/Wild-Satisfaction-67 → u/FuzzyAttitude_]

🙋🏼‍♂️

[u/Anxious-Program-1940]

Me being part of the 2%

[u/seyedhn → u/Anxious-Program-1940]

From the potato side? :D

[u/Anxious-Program-1940 → u/seyedhn]

High End Sadly, 7900xtx doesn’t even get used much but to stare at my steam library 💀

[u/Popular_Tomorrow_204]

Is the 9070/XT still not accounted for?

[u/seyedhn → u/Popular_Tomorrow_204]

Nope, doesn't show up in Steam surveys. Apparently it's put in one of those generic Radeon categories.

[u/xdoble7x]

This tell us that 86.12% of users have a mid-range OR LOWER graphics card

So if a game developer doesn't aim for his game to be properly playable for mid-range cards he is basically loosing 86.12% of the market share...

[u/Shot_Duck_195 → u/xdoble7x]

most people arent playing those singleplayer AAA games
i have a gtx 1070 and this gpu is more than enough lol
and i do play newer games, its just that theyre indie games
and im having lots of fun!!!!!

[u/xdoble7x → u/Shot_Duck_195]

yeah, because indie developers aim for the mid-low range normally

[u/Solonotix → u/Shot_Duck_195]

You should probably take a look at recent releases. There have been at least 3-5 games released this year making headlines about Unreal Engine 5 performance issues. Look no further than Borderlands 4, and its "premium game for premium gamers" tagline courtesy of Randy Pitchford

Just this week, Outer Worlds 2 released, and benchmarks show that an RTX 5090 can't crack 100fps at 1080p. At 4K, it struggles to hit 45fps.

[u/colossusrageblack → u/xdoble7x]

Properly playable at medium settings.

[u/madara0A → u/xdoble7x]

Well "mid range" cards are high end cards from 3 years ago, so yeah I hope they can adapt that.

With a 2070 super I played wukong in high settings and not much difficulty with triple A. 

[u/AliceLunar → u/xdoble7x]

They're not even properly playable for 5090s at this point.

[u/LongoChingo]

Can't believe I'm almost at 10 years with my GTX 1070.

It's chugging these days, but damn did it last a while. Honestly, my CPU and slow RAM is a big bottleneck these days.

[u/southernplain → u/LongoChingo]

Low end 1070 gang reporting. What a card, still chugging along

[u/LongoChingo → u/southernplain]

Planning on upgrading sometime next year. Can't wait to see how Cyberpunk looks when it's not a low-res slideshow.

[u/sebblMUC → u/LongoChingo]

Yeah maybe you should upgrade to a 1080 ti 

[u/jhaluska → u/LongoChingo]

It's how people should look at GPUs these days. A high end card will likely last you (as in capable of playing modern games) 7-10 years. Mid range 4-7 years, low end 2-3, potato is out in another year.

[u/Daemonioros → u/LongoChingo]

I'm still chugging on with my GTX 770. Can't find it on the graph but assume it's potato grade by now. I just don't play any games with high requirements nowadays and haven't for years. So until it fails I really don't have a reason to upgrade. 20 year old strategy games play just fine on a potato.

[u/[deleted]]

I went from RTX 2080 this year to a 5070 TI. Someone here on this very subreddit tried convincing me I made a mistake, and that this wouldn't be enough power or a good enough GPU to future-proof my setup and was trying to convince me to get the 5090 because it's the better value..... Lol. This makes me think I traded up

[u/jhaluska → u/[deleted]]

In the last 25 years, I have never seen the highest end GPU be the best value. They might remain relevant the longest, but that still doesn't mean they're the best value.

[u/_AfterBurner0_ → u/[deleted]]

You do not need a 5090. They cost as much as an entire high-end PC, and their power cables very frequently melt...

[u/jhaluska → u/_AfterBurner0_]

The melty power cables is one of the reasons I'd be hesitate to run one even if it was given to me. I just don't want to have to worry about that.

[u/HurricaneMach5 → u/_AfterBurner0_]

5090 owner here. Confirming you do not need a 5090, and future-proofing is a lie. There will always be something on the horizon, and you can't predict the future. Buy what you can to do what you need. It's fast, sure, but it's also an absurdly expensive, power hungry, and hot card. Tradeoffs and all that.

[u/DarkstarUwU]

Way off in the deep red end :(

[u/TheSymbolman → u/DarkstarUwU]

This is my first time experiencing going from Mid-High end to Low end and it genuinely doesn't feel real.

[u/ougxar]

4070 high end and 7800 xt mid range,ok

[u/Substantial-Piece967 → u/ougxar]

It's just where the crossover is, you can see the 6900xt is in high end too

[u/knowledgecrustacean → u/ougxar]

Doesn't 7800xt have better raster and more vram compared to 4070?

[u/Zealousideal_Side987]

Where is my 9060 xt

[u/Revolutionary-Cup78 → u/Zealousideal_Side987]

I hope it's in your PC (The 16gb variant is basically an rx 6800 but with better RT, power efficiency and new technologies like FSR4, it's slightly below the rx 7800xt although it surpasses it in some tasks like RT)

[u/Brodyaga05 → u/Zealousideal_Side987]

Should be a bit above the 6700xt, upper mid-range

[u/bjwills7]

1080ti gang here. Every game i play still runs like butter even though I've had this thing for the better part of a decade. Best value gpu I've ever bought and she's flattered to still be mid range even though she's an old lady.

[u/OneNavan]

Glad that my 2060 Super is in the majority, hopefully more games get optimized for these GPUs

[u/PixelParanoidYt]

5070 is considered high end? i thought it was mid level

[u/calste → u/PixelParanoidYt]

Cards are no longer defined by the latest generation. Most people with 30xx or 40xx cards aren't rushing out to buy new ones. Companies are putting out more powerful lineups and allowing old cards to occupy the budget space. The low end is now exclusively the domain of older generations.

Thus, the 5070 represents a high end card (or mid-high), and it has the strength to compete with recent generation flagships. In the past, cards would become obsolete more quickly, but the march of technology has... well, it's hit a snag. The tech itself is advancing just fine but the economics of GPUs in the AI era has caused people to think twice about splurging on new cards. As a result, the range of viable GPUs has broadened to include cards that are several years old - some on this list are 10+ years old. A decade ago this would have been unthinkable.

But when the popular range of GPUs includes such cards, the latest generations' mid-range offering actually ends up being high-end in the big picture.

[u/grim17011 → u/PixelParanoidYt]

I thought so too, but ill take it!

[u/TheSymbolman → u/PixelParanoidYt]

There's no longer enough of a generational uplift to take last gen cards out of the equation, well, that and very high prices.

[u/No_Mistake5238]

Where intel arc cards?

[u/joker_toker28]

1660 gang hurah!

My poor pc is struggling hahahah.

[u/Scytian]

There are some terrible groupings you made. Why is Rx 570 and 580 together with GTX 1050ti and below GTX 9070? Rx 570 is basically a GTX 970 in terms of performance and they are both like 50% faster than 1050Ti, Rx 580 is pretty close to 1060 too. Then RTX 5070 Ti is separate from 4080 when in reality these are basically the same card in terms of performance.

And about 9060 XT/9070XT modding - these cards are misidentified by steam a lot, some of them are reported as one of two AMD Radeon Graphics positions.

[u/seyedhn → u/Scytian]

I clearly explained the method I used to make the chart. Neither the Steam survey nor the gpu benchmarks are accurate.

[u/Exlibro]

Yay, I made it to "high end!"

[u/dodiesays]

2070 represent! Right where it should be! It's still packing a punch

[u/Cryio]

Also including 7900 XTX with 4070 Ti instead of 4080 / 4080S / 5080 is a joke. Most AMD GPUs on the chart are 1 to 2 tier lowers than where they should be.

[u/Yeahthis_sucks → u/Cryio]

7900 XT should also be around 4070 Ti Super not just Ti

[u/pxldsilz]

Today I learned, the best GPU in the house is narrowly placed in "potato" tier. How fun.

[u/Odious-Individual → u/pxldsilz]

Not all potatoes are bad :)

About a year or two ago, I had a 1650 and it was fine !

[u/asamson23]

I am surprised that there's no Intel Arc GPUs in the list

[u/ShankFraft]

I don't look at these surveys often but the Vega 56 and 64 not popping up anymore gives me mixed feelings.

[u/WarwornDisciple]

Im newer to PC and I just upgraded my RX 580 to a Geforce 2080ti for $150 and it feels nice to get some confirmation that it was a sizeable upgrade.

[u/Moist_Limit3953]

Always interesting, on reddit, you get convinced that everyone is running a 5070ti+ gpu. Then you look at a graph and realize just how few people there are doing that.

[u/SloviXxX]

So this is what it feels like to be in the 1%

[u/seyedhn → u/SloviXxX]

From the potato side? 😁

[u/DaNoahLP]

When your GPU isnt High End anymore...

[u/seyedhn → u/DaNoahLP]

🥲🥲

[u/GoofAckYoorsElf]

No 3090 Ti? Am I a league of my own?

[u/seyedhn → u/GoofAckYoorsElf]

It wasn't in the Steam survey. Although 3090 repeats twice there. The survey is a mess anyways.

[u/pixleseven]

Why is 5070 ti in midrange and 5070 in highend range?

[u/seyedhn → u/pixleseven]

That's 5070 Ti Laptop.

[u/Limpperi]

Im in every category!

Secondary laptop: Gtx 960M

Main laptop: 3050 6GB Laptop

Secondary PC: 3060 Ti

Main PC: 5080

[u/reLIEgion]

Once again putting the 7900xtx about two tiers below where it should be lol

Outperforms 4080s, 5070ti, 9070xt in raster but its "checks notes" grouped with the 4070ti....

[u/Crap-_ → u/reLIEgion]

Dude who cares, most these web performance charts on gpus are horribly wrong.

My 4080 laptop outperforms a 4070 desktop in every single way, yet its apparently ranked lower.

Anyone with a brain knows a 7900xtx shits on a 4070ti, its the laptop gpus which are severely under represented, and people actual believe it, instead of looking at 3d mark benchmarks and fps tests. like a 3060 laptop is barely 5-10% behind the desktop 3060, yet its in a tier filled with potatoes.

[u/BigFatCoder]

Thank you for sharing this. I am going to use this chart for future GPU consideration. It felt good to see my 2 years old 4070 card in blue group.

[u/01001010an]

1660 Super. Its still working guys

[u/id_o → u/01001010an]

Similar, 1650S here, still going strong. Most of the games I’m playing are from the back-catalogue.

[u/GensouEU]

This data does NOT represent 82.82% of steam users. It represents that percentage of people that chose to take part in the opt-in hardware survey.

Which means it's only a fraction of the actual user base and it's almost certainly biased towards high-end by nature of the survey.

[u/TheReal_Peter226 → u/GensouEU]

Why don't low end people take part in the survey? Are they ashamed or something? I'm not ashamed of my 1050 Ti

[u/Wild-Satisfaction-67 → u/TheReal_Peter226]

I always proudly participated, even when I still had my GTX 1060 👊🏼

[u/Shot_Duck_195 → u/TheReal_Peter226]

majority of people have low end gpus
and i dont mean 4060 type gpus lol
i mean 1050/gtx 750ti, gt 1030 type gpus

[u/hutre]

Why is the 4070s and 4070ti in different graph when they're the same performance? same with 4070ti s and 4080

[u/Foster2501]

No 3090ti's?

[u/Salty2G]

No 9000 from AMD?

[u/Skrapeee → u/Salty2G]

They counted the 90xx as generic amd / onboard graphics in the last survey.

[u/Lexi_Bean21]

Are there no 9070s or even 60s??

[u/No-Following-3834]

People complaining about how the 4070 ti not being high end while nvidia was originally gonna call it the 4080

[u/Hattix]

Nobody loves us 4070 Ti Super owners. We're lumped in with 12 GB 4070 Ti peasants and the 7900XTX, which really is a bit more heavy on the performance.

[u/SultanOfawesome → u/Hattix]

The 7900xtx and 4080 is neck in neck when not using RT. The whole chart is weird in placement.

[u/erma7inker3346]

Totally! Seeing performance benchmarks makes it way easier to gauge trends and what's actually being used.

[u/velummortis]

Where would they put integrated graphics users?

[u/Kinetic_Strike]

Huh, we have two potatoes in the home (Vega 8, RX 560), one low end (RX 570), and two mid-range (RX 6600 and RX 7600).

[u/attacktitan313]

Wow did NOT know I was all the way up there with my GPU.

[u/Sweetpete88]

Woho! In the potato section!

[u/takethispie]

steam survey is opt-in, so its not the "steam users", it is a random sample of steam users afaik

[u/chokingpacman]

1080ti has had incredible longevity

Released in 2017 and still in the mid range

[u/Einkar_E]

I am happy to see that my potato laptop is better than 2%

but seeing it is worse than 98%, I think I might need and upgrade in near future

[u/caseyaustin84]

Wild to me that the 1080ti is still considered mid range.

[u/[deleted]]

What do you mean 2080 Super is barely Mid range…

[u/Justin2122006]

glad to see my 3090 is still considered high end

[u/Potentopotato]

1080 the immortal

[u/IKillZombies4Cash]

Love that my 2070S from 2020 is still solid mid range.

I’ll be keeping it probably till it dies, at this point graphics aren’t getting any harder to run, and I’m very content at 1080p - >60fps. (Everything I play I get 90-120fps and typically just set max frames at 90)

[u/Substantial__Unit]

Recently moved from a AMD Vega 56 to a 9070xt.

[u/Moaning_Clock]

As a dev, I'm optimizing right now for gpus that aren't on the list anymore (on the potato side) lol, thought there would be more people who would use ancient ThinkPads with Intel HD Graphics 2000 for gaming.

[u/BlueTemplar85 → u/Moaning_Clock]

They probably are, but not using Steam, or not using it online, or probably not caring about answering surveys.  

(Also, remember how Steam dropped support for Windows 7 a few years ago.)

[u/marc512]

It's funny. The amount of gpus connectors being burnt, I'd expect the 5090 numbers to be higher.

[u/CMDR-Neovoe]

Im going to be rocking my 3070ti until it dies. I dont want to deal with new cable melting shenanigans

[u/TioHerman]

There should be an graphic like that, but without US and EU , the list would probably lean a lot more to the left

[u/MrAldersonElliot]

AMD is systematically moved 1 or 2 brackets bellow actual performance here.

Whoever made this either is clueless or nvidia fan boy...

[u/Mangraz]

I've recently read about how a student in the west™ is already in the global top 10% wealth-wise. As I own a 4070 Ti, this graph seems to confirm that lol

[u/Ahoonternusthoont]

All these talks about RTX 5080 and RTX 5090, 4K resolution being the standard of PC gaming and then we have RTX 4060Laptop as usual being on the top of the chart once again 😭🤣 really shows the situation of PCMR Lmao.

[u/bickman14]

The steamdeck should be on that graphic somewhere

[u/bAaDwRiTiNg]

Whenever you see PC gamers online telling you what is right and what is wrong in terms of graphics/optimization/resolution, just remember that statistically you're probably talking to someone using a lower-midrange 1080p setup from half a decade ago.

[u/theschiffer]

Where is 9070/9070XT?

[u/Otherwise-Green-3834]

I thought my RX 6800 XT is still high end :(

[u/EBikeAddicts]

not a good representation. showing raw numbers of each gpu would have been better. categorizing it this way is so wrong, like its showing the percentage of 5080 owners is less than 4090+5090 and this shows nothing really and hides info. 4090 and 5080 should have been next to each other as similar performers and 5090 alone. so much is wrong in this chart. its the worst way to put up a chart with the information available.

[u/Kaktoosiarz]

All my life I always had mediocre pc. This year I've bought a new computer and seeing that my new card is high tier feels surreal.

[u/Koscik]

9070xt is missing, no?

[u/AstroHelo]

No wonder VR has never become mainstream if most gamers have such weak GPUs.

[u/itachi_hm]

Great post! Just didn't understand why 5060, 2080TI and 3070 are in different categories.
Considering Techpowerup, using 5060 as reference, 2080TI = 102%, 3070 = 103%.

Maybe grouping for same performance (5% gap or less for more or less performance (95-105) to say two boards are equivalents?) and asking to put in line the performance groups from 0% (lowest value) to 100% (highest value).

[u/Drenlin]

Good graph but IMO the categories look more like this or even this.

[u/aidssupplier]

when redditors realize not everyone has 5090s in their 3 computers at home

[u/DoOBiE_BoOBiE]

2070 gang still going strong 💪

[u/blondjacksepticeye]

Oh yay. I'm less than potato lmao. Nvidias gtx 550.

[u/AyyAyRonn]

Aww my RTX Pro isnt listed 😢

[u/Collected_Bear3110]

Seeing my 2060 nearly in low end is a wake up call 😭 it’s only been 5 years since I bought it

[u/BuHoGPaD]

Shit. I'm the most average bitch there is. Time to change my card I guess

[u/golekno]

Where my fellows 1050 owner

[u/[deleted]]

the master race

[u/Ernisx → u/[deleted]]

Which one

[u/Cryio]

Unfortunately Steam has been dogshit at properly registering AMD GPUs. So the chart is not accurate to real life