
The first ten cards on the list would all be considered mid-range or lower by today’s standards, but they represent about 42% of all cards surveyed. Meanwhile, 2016’s mid-range darling, the GTX 1060, represents just short of 9% of surveyed Steam users. The more “mainstream” high-end GPU, the RTX 3070 Ti, only accounts for 0.28%. The top-tier RTX 3090 GPU from Nvidia represents a mere 0.48% of the PCs surveyed by Steam. Thanks to the Steam Hardware survey, there are data to support this as well.

They represent the pinnacle of what’s possible but not what most people use in the real world.


While supercars exist, almost every person who drives a car doesn’t have one. It should be unsurprising that most PC gamers do not spend $5000 on their PC builds, and you won’t find many people in the real world with these prestigious machines.
