Nvidia’s RTX 4060 is THE dominant GPU, boosting its desktop market share by 34% in a single month on Steam’s Hardware Survey

The newest Steam {hardware} survey outcomes are in and it seems like persons are benefiting from current graphics card reductions, particularly on the decrease finish of the 40-series. These gross sales and worth drops are to be anticipated as we’re at present within the lead-up to some next-gen graphics card releases.

The September Steam {hardware} survey exhibits a 1.17% enhance in Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 customers and a 0.76% enhance in RTX 4060 Ti customers. At first look, these numbers may not appear very excessive, however within the case of the RTX 4060, we’re going from a 3.41% share of surveyed GPUs to a 4.58% share, which is a 34% enhance.

Interestingly, mixed with the cell model of the RTX 4060—which makes use of the very same GPU—that places the overall market share of that slice of Ada Lovelace silicon above some other chip in all the Steamy dataset. 

These percentages are, in fact, by no means going to be the entire story, as a result of they solely characterize these (a) who use Steam, who additionally (b) responded to the {hardware} survey. 

The story may be that these elevated numbers largely come from the Chinese market, given the survey additionally exhibits a 1.54% enhance in Simplified Chinese language use, a truth that would partly be put all the way down to the discharge of Black Myth: Wukong.  

It is sensible for RTX 4060 and 4060 Ti numbers to extend within the West, too, although, given the ever-approaching Nvidia RTX 50-series and AMD RX 8000-series graphics playing cards. Those seeking to improve their GPUs are prone to both purchase a less expensive current-gen GPU, such because the RTX 4060, or wait to see what the following era has in retailer in the event that they’re trying on the high finish of the market.

Plus, there’s the straightforward incontrovertible fact that graphics playing cards have been prohibitively costly for a very long time and have solely lately began dropping to affordable costs. Nvidia RTX 40-series GPU costs have been dropping throughout the board within the lead-up to the 50-series—even within the usually-expensive UK market which lately noticed some stellar offers. 

The imminent introduction of a brand new era of graphics playing cards is usually a good time to purchase a brand new mid-range or finances card—I can attest to this personally, as I purchased my RTX 3060 Ti for an excellent worth within the lead-up to the RTX 40-series. RTX 4060 costs dropping beneath $300 might be simply the push wanted for a phase of beforehand priced-out avid gamers to improve and plunge into (for now) current-gen territory.

The remainder of the {hardware} survey outcomes are, for probably the most half, unremarkable. Of be aware, although, is that issues are a bit flip-floppy on the Windows entrance, as we see that Windows 10 utilization has risen by 1.57% and Windows 11 utilization has dropped by 1.48%, placing the older OS again behind the brand new one general. This is regardless of Windows 11 beforehand overtaking Windows 10 on Steam.

Hopefully, we’ll begin to see some extra vital adjustments in Steam {hardware} survey outcomes when next-gen GPUs hit the market. But I will not maintain my breath on individuals lapping these up immediately, not till cheaper variants launch. Who is aware of, although, possibly AMD will take our Jeremy’s recommendation and set low Radeon RX 8000-series costs from launch. A person can dream.