Steam April Hardware Survey: RTX 5050 Debuts on List, 16GB VRAM Share Increases Significantly
Valve recently released the results of the April 2026 Steam Hardware and Software Survey. The latest data shows that NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards continue to maintain strong growth momentum, with all desktop SKUs appearing in the main GPU statistics table, including the recently released GeForce RTX 5050.
Data shows that desktop GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards currently account for 10.8% of all surveyed systems. If laptop GPUs are included, the share rises to 13.41%.
Among specific desktop models, the RTX 5070 leads with a 2.86% share, followed by the RTX 5060 (2.57%), RTX 5060 Ti (1.81%), RTX 5070 Ti (1.62%), RTX 5080 (1.37%), and RTX 5090 (0.41%). The newly listed RTX 5050 has a small share, but its first appearance in the statistics table is a noteworthy signal.
In addition, AMD's Radeon RX 9070 also appears for the first time in this survey's graphics card list, marking the entry of the new generation of AMD cards into players' view.
Notably, Apple's M2 chip also appears as a new entry in the graphics card overview, accounting for 1.77%, the same as the monthly increase. Valve has not explained this change, so it may be related to Mac sampling adjustments or Steam hardware detection methods during this period, and there is no conclusion yet.
In terms of video memory capacity, the data shows a clear trend towards migrating to high-capacity graphics cards. The 16GB VRAM category climbed to 23.51%, a significant increase of 1.98 percentage points from last month. Although 8GB VRAM still maintains the largest user base with a share of 26.76%, its share has fallen by 0.76 percentage points.
This change reflects that as the demand for VRAM from new generation AAA games continues to increase, the player base is accelerating the transition to graphics cards with higher VRAM capacity.