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Steam Survey Puts Nvidia RTX 5070 at No. 1, Prompting Questions Over February Spike

Analysts point to a holiday surge of Chinese Steam users, with internet cafés likely inflating the opt-in sample.

Overview

  • Valve’s February 2026 Hardware & Software Survey lists the GeForce RTX 5070 at 9.42% of systems, up from 2.87% in January.
  • Chinese respondents accounted for 54.6% of the sample, a 30.74% jump that coincided with Lunar New Year.
  • Reporters say heavy internet café logins in China can duplicate system reads, casting doubt on the magnitude of the single-month gains.
  • The survey also shows an 18.91% rise in PCs reporting 32 GB of RAM, a notable shift during ongoing memory price pressures.
  • NVIDIA’s overall Steam GPU share reportedly climbed to 84.7% as AMD fell to 10.6%, with several midrange GeForce cards showing outsized increases.