Nvidia’s RTX 4060 has become THE dominant GPU in the Steam Hardware Survey, increasing its desktop market share from 34% to 34% within a month.

Recent Steam hardware survey results show that people are taking advantage of recent graphics card discounts. This is especially true for the lower end of 40-series. These sales and price reductions are expected, as we're in the lead-up for some next-gen graphic card releases.

The September Steam Hardware Survey shows a 1.17% rise in Nvidia GeForce RTX-4060 users, and a 0.76% rise in RTX-4060 Ti users. These numbers may not seem impressive at first, but the RTX-4060 has gone from a 3.41% to a 4.58% market share. This is a 34% jump.

Interestingly, when combined with the mobile version RTX 4060 - which uses the exact GPU - that puts the total share of this slice of Ada Lovelace Silicon above any other chip within the Steamy dataset.

These percentages will never be the full story because they only represent those who (a) use Steam and (b) responded in the hardware survey.

This could be due to the release Black Myth: Wukong.

It's not surprising that RTX 4060/4060 Ti sales are increasing in the West as well, especially with the upcoming Nvidia RTX 8000 and AMD RX 5000 series graphics cards. Those who are looking to upgrade their graphics cards will either purchase a current-gen GPU such as the RTX4060 or wait for the next generation if they want to buy the best.

Plus, graphics cards were prohibitively expensive for years and only recently have they started to drop in price. Prices of Nvidia's RTX 40 series GPUs have been falling across the board as we move towards the 50 series. This is true even in the normally expensive UK market, which has seen some great deals recently.

It is often a good time to purchase a new midrange or budget graphics card, especially when a new generation is about to be released. I can personally attest to this, as I purchased my RTX-3060 Ti at a great deal in the run-up to the RTX-40-series. RTX 3060 prices dropping to below $300 could be the push that gamers need to upgrade into current-gen territory.

The rest of the survey results are largely unremarkable. Windows 10 usage is up by 1.57%, while Windows 11 usage is down by 1.48%. This puts the older OS behind the newer one. This is despite Windows 11 having previously surpassed Windows 10 on Steam.

We'll hopefully start to see more significant changes when the next-generation GPUs hit market. But I wouldn't expect people to rush out and buy them right away. Not until cheaper variants are released. AMD may take Jeremy's suggestion and set low prices for the Radeon RX 8000 series from launch. A man can dream.