NVIDIA RTX 5070 leads Steam hardware survey as 32GB RAM becomes most common

The September 2026 Steam hardware survey reveals significant shifts in PC gaming configurations. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 has become the most popular individual graphics card, capturing 5.86% of the market and growing by 2.3 percentage points from the previous month. Overall, NVIDIA's RTX 50-series models now account for 18.21% of the platform's total GPU share.

In a notable shift for system memory, 32GB RAM configurations have overtaken 16GB for the first time, rising to 42.22% of systems. Meanwhile, 16GB configurations dropped to 37.82%.

Display trends show a move toward higher resolutions. While 1920x1080 remains the most common resolution at 47.91%, it has fallen below the 50% threshold for the first time. Conversely, 2560x1440 (QHD) saw a significant increase, reaching 27.04%. Additionally, storage trends indicate that over 53% of users now possess more than 1TB of disk space.