Nvidia RTX 4060 graphics cards are finally impressing PC gamers – and we’re betting they’ll soon be the most popular GPUs around

Nvidia’s RTX 4060 Ti is also enjoying a rush of popularity in the Steam hardware survey

News By Darren Allan published 2 October 2024

Nvidia’s RTX 4060 struggled to make an impression when it arrived – notably against the previous-gen RTX 3060 Ti, even though the newer GPU was cheaper – but the graphics card appears to finally be hitting its stride.

This is according to the latest Steam Hardware Survey, where the RTX 4060 has positive leapt up the rankings. In the September report from Valve, the RTX 4060 is now the second most popular GPU used by PC gamers on Steam, with an increase of 1.13% compared to August (when it was in sixth place).

It’s now in second on 4.44%, behind only the Nvidia RTX 3060 which still tops the rankings with 5.71%.

Notably, last month the RTX 3060 Ti actually still edged out the RTX 4060, going by the numbers on Steam – but not anymore.

Furthermore, its Lovelace sibling, the RTX 4060 Ti, has also made good progress in September, putting on 0.74% to sit at 3.55%, where the GPU is in fourth place. Between the RTX 4060 and 4060 Ti we have the laptop 4060, so the top three positions behind the chart-topping RTX 3060 are actually taken by different RTX 4060 models now.

An interesting turn of events, for sure, so let’s dive in and try to analyze exactly what this means for the GPU market going forward.

Analysis: The struggle to overcome that initial perception 

It’s the mainstream graphics cards which carry a range of GPUs, of course, and for Nvidia’s current-gen that means the RTX 4070 and 4060 models (plus usually the xx50 too, but that card didn’t happen with Lovelace, not on the desktop anyway).

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