GPU benchmark records: a February 2026 snapshot
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February 22, 2026
Daniel LuFull-Stack Engineer | Content Creator
This report looks at GPU results recorded on iKnowABit in early 2026. The sample describes the site's participants, rather than the wider hardware market.
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This report looks at GPU results recorded on iKnowABit in early 2026. The sample describes the site's participants, rather than the wider hardware market.
What this sample can compare
Separate how often a device appears from how highly it scores. Participation, browser support and test selection shape the sample; a frequent model is not automatically the fastest or most common model outside the site.
Here is the iKnowABit global compute ecosystem breakdown after deduplication:
From the data, we can see:
- 🟢 NVIDIA (44.1%) commands nearly half of the market, confirming its absolute hegemony in the high-performance discrete GPU space.
- 🔵 Intel (21.1%) securely holds second place among geeks, thanks to its massive installed base of thin-and-light laptop integrated graphics.
- 🔴 AMD (17.5%) bites closely behind. This is not only due to its desktop graphics cards but significantly driven by the rise of high-performance integrated graphics like the Radeon 780M in recent handheld consoles and ultrabooks.
RTX 4060 Laptop records
If we ignore brand preference and solely look at specific graphics card models, which card do you guess participated in the benchmark the most?
It's not the exorbitantly priced flagship cards, nor the once-dubbed "immortal" GTX 1060. The single (Windows) device combo caught most frequently by the iKnowABit backend is: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU.
This sends an exceedingly clear signal: The trend toward PC mobility is irreversible. Today's geeks, AI developers, and gamers increasingly lean toward powerful laptops as their primary machines. The RTX 4060 Laptop GPU has undeniably become the "arcade machine" of this era, thanks to its outstanding energy efficiency that seamlessly balances running local AI models and 3A games.
RTX 50-series participation
Fast forward to February 2026, major hardware communities are still debating Jensen Huang's latest 'knife skills' (product segmentation). But our actual data shows that hardware upgrades among geek users are happening much faster than expected.
In our independent sample pool, the RTX 5060 Desktop alone already boasts up to 15 independent users testing it, perfectly inheriting the mantle of the "Sweet Spot Card" of the 60 class.
Furthermore, at the very physical ceiling of the ultimate compute benchmark leaderboards, the new-generation architectures have firmly seized control:
- The absolute pinnacle is dominated by the RTX 5090, hitting a staggering 8.11 million points.
- Trailing closely are the RTX 5070 at 4.49 million points and the RTX 5080 (4.21 million points).
Under the pure mathematics-throughput squeeze of WebGPU, the generational advantage of the 50 series architecture is vividly demonstrated.
Apple device results
During data cleaning, we once again observed the unique "hardcore obsession" characteristic of the Apple ecosystem.
In our overall pool, the total share of Apple GPUs seems to be only 5.5%. This is normal; after all, Macs have never been traditional 3D gaming machines (resulting in fewer users for 3D rasterization tests).
However! Once the target shifts to the Extreme Compute Benchmark, Apple GPU's presence instantly surges to over 10%!
Why? Because modern Mac users (especially those using Pro devices powered by M2/M3/M4 series chips) harbor a large number of programmers, large-model researchers, and creative professionals. They might be indifferent to "gaming frame rates," but they possess profound curiosity about "exactly how strong is my machine's pure compute power?" and "how fast can data streams run natively in the browser?" Apple Silicon's powerful unified memory and concurrent computing capabilities have indeed delivered top-tier answers in the compute benchmark.
🔗 Standard GPU Performance Test
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🔗 Extreme GPU Compute Benchmark
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This sample describes submissions to the site's browser benchmarks during the stated period. It cannot establish global market share or performance in every workload.