GearCensus

CPU 8 cores

57% of the surveyed systems have at least 8 CPU cores.

Steam Hardware Survey, October 2026

Surveyed systems by CPU core count
  1. 2 cores 2.8%
  2. 4 cores 12.4%
  3. 5 cores 0.2%
  4. 6 cores 27.3%
  5. 8 cores 28.7%
  6. 10 cores 7.5%
  7. 12 cores 5.0%
  8. 14 cores 4.7%
  9. 16 cores 5.9%
  10. 18 cores 0.3%
  11. 20 cores 2.2%
  12. 24 cores 2.9%
  • At least 8 cores
  • Fewer than 8 cores
Surveyed systems by CPU vendor
  1. Intel 51.7%
  2. AMD 46.2%
  3. Apple 2.1%
Surveyed systems supporting each instruction set
  1. SSE4.2 97.8%
  2. AVX 97.0%
  3. AVX2 95.2%
  4. AVX-512 24.3%

How CPUs are counted