Most PC Gamers Are Now Playing With More Than 8GB of VRAM

Most PC Gamers Are Now Playing With More Than 8GB of VRAM

The RTX 3060 is once again the most popular card, according to the July Steam Hardware Survey.

Steam Hardware Survey Reveals Rise of 16GB GPUs and 8-Core CPUs

Valve’s Steam Hardware Survey and Software Survey for July 2026 has recorded a shift in what counts as a typical gaming PC. For the first time in the Steam Hardware Survey, graphics cards with 16GB of video memory have overtaken 8GB cards as the most common configuration on the platform, and 8-core processors have edged […]

16 GB GPUs Finally Take Over 8 GB GPUs In Steam Hardware Survey As Gamers Switch To Higher VRAM GPUs

Graphics cards with 16 GB VRAM have gained more popularity in the last month as gamers transition to 16 GB GPUs. Latest Steam Hardware Survey Reveals 8 Core CPUs and 16 GB GPUs are the Most Popular Configurations for Gamers This was inevitable since 8 GB graphics cards have started to bottleneck performance in intensive titles where 8 GB VRAM doesn't supply enough juice to run games smoothly. For the last few years, we have seen how modern title…

16GB GPUs and 8-core CPUs officially become the most popular configs on Steam — Latest hardware survey shows modern gaming's growing hunger for more resources

Wirth's law dictates that software becomes slower more rapidly than hardware gets faster. That logic can explain why games today look mostly the same as they did a decade ago, yet require a lot more resources to run comfortably. That sentiment is now reflected in Steam's latest hardware survey as well, where 8-core CPUs have overtaken 6-core CPUs for the first time ever, and GPUs with 16GB of VRAM have become the most common on the platform.The …

Why Steam's 16GB VRAM Milestone Tells Only Part Of The GPU Story

Valve's latest audit of gaming PCs on Steam suggests that if you are not running a graphics card with 16GB of VRAM, then you are in the minority. For the first time, 16GB of VRAM tops the chart at 25.90% of systems that participated in the newest Steam hardware survey, which is just enough to slip past 8GB VRAM at 25.32%. Will game developers