Nvidia's RTX 5070 leaps to top of the Steam Hardware Survey but something looks fishy in the figures

Valve's Steam Hardware Survey isn't exactly an infallible source of real-world PC specification knowledge. Valve itself recently admitted as much. So, what to make of the latest survey for February 2026 that sees the Nvidia RTX 5070 leap dramatically to the top of the GPU popularity table?

For the record, the Hardware Survey had shown the RTX 5070 making gradual progress in popularity among Steam gamers in recent months. In October, it had 1.88% share of Steam gamers, rising to 2.23% in November...