July Steam Survey: RTX 5000 surge, new top GPU, 4 in 10 participants using AMD CPUs

What just happened? Here's a clear indication that the supply and pricing problems which have plagued Nvidia's RTX 5000 series are easing: the cards experienced a large uptick in user share in the latest Steam survey. However, there's still no sign of AMD's 9000-series in the main GPU chart, where the RX 7600 XT has only just appeared. Elsewhere, we've got a new most-popular card among participants, and AMD processors have passed a milestone.

Starting with the main GPU chart, July's results show that in the long-running battle between the RTX 3060 and RTX 4060 laptop GPU for the top spot, the Ampere card has once again jumped ahead of the mobile chip.

Most popular GPUs among Steam survey participants in July

The more interesting data comes from the GPU user-share changes during July. The biggest increase in the month belonged to the RTX ...