RTX 5070 closes in on RTX 3060 as Steam hardware shifts
Valve’s July 2026 Steam Hardware Survey shows two hardware crossovers. Systems with eight physical CPU cores now represent 27.85% of participants, narrowly ahead of six-core systems at 27.52%. The 16GB VRAM category also reached 25.90%, passing 8GB at 25.32%.
Eight cores pass six cores
Eight-core CPUs gained 0.38 percentage points in July, while six-core configurations lost 0.12 points. The VRAM shift was larger, with 16GB gaining 1.40 points and 8GB losing 0.32 points. These results come from Steam’s default combined view, which includes Windows, macOS and Linux. On Windows alone, six-core CPUs still lead at 28.43%, while 8GB remains the most common VRAM capacity at 33.20%.
© Valve Steam also lists systems with one, three, five and other uncommon physical core counts. These entries often represent virtual machines, systems with disabled cores or detection errors. However, keep in mind that odd core counts can also come from real processors. Intel’s Wildcat Lake-based Core 3 processor 304 has five cores , combining one P-core with four Low Power E-cores.
© Valve GeForce RTX 50 adoption continues
Other July changes include Windows 11 reaching 75.01% among Windows participants. The GeForce RTX 3060 remains the most common Windows GPU at 3.88%, but the RTX 5070 is close behind at 3.72% after gaining 0.33 percentage points. The RTX 4060 Laptop GPU and desktop RTX 4060 sit between them at 3.64% and 3.63%, respectively.
The GeForce RTX 5060 Ti has also passed the RTX 4060 Ti , reaching 2.40% compared with 2.36% for its predecessor. The desktop RTX 5060 rose to 3.03% after gaining 0.22 points. Further down the list, the RTX 5080 reached 1.63%, placing it ahead of the GTX 1060 at 1.52%.
Source: Steam
