RTX 3060 reclaims top spot in Steam survey, 5060 Ti enters chart as Blackwell cards surge

In brief: Remember when GPUs would top the Steam survey for months or even years on end? That's become a rarity these days as the most popular product changes regularly. The RTX 3060, for example, has just regained the top spot it recently lost to the RTX 4060 laptop GPU. Elsewhere, May was another record month for AMD's CPU share, the RTX 5060 Ti broke into the main chart, and more gamers are abandoning Windows 10. Following the somewhat surprising sight of the RTX 4060 laptop GPU topping the April Steam survey, the RTX 3060 bounced back in May to become the number one again. The most popular GPUs among Steam survey participants are mostly made up of RTX xx50 and xx60 series products from the Lovelace, Ampere, and Turing generations. Looking at the GPUs with the biggest gains, last month was a good one for Nvidia's Blackwell cards. Despite being maligned for numerous reasons, four of the top ten best performers were RTX 5000 models. The biggest increase was for the RTX 5070, up 0.3 ... Read full article.