Yes, yes, Valve's Steam hardware surveys can be problematic and occasionally throw up anomalies that can't possibly reflect the reality of gamer's rigs (there's one such potential glitch to follow, so hang in there). I'm way ahead of you. But for the record, the first Nvidia RTX 50 GPU to break cover in the survey is the RTX 5080, which kinda makes sense.
It was, of course, the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 boards that were the first to launch of the RTX 50-series, allowing them time to amass numbers for this March instalment of the Steam survey. Not only would you expect the cheaper RTX 5080, with its smaller GPU die, to be made and sold in bigger numbers. It's also a bit more likely to be bought for gaming than the monstrous RTX 5090, which is the kind of mega-GPU that people snap up for all kinds of weird and wonderful workflows.
