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.