GearCensus

Steam Hardware Survey, October 2021

The GPUs, platforms, CPUs, and RAM of the surveyed systems, and how they changed from September 2021.

GPUs from surveyed systems by vendor
NVIDIA
78.5%−0.62 pts
AMD
12.8%+0.52 pts
Intel
8.7%+0.10 pts

Most popular GPUs

About half of the GPUs from surveyed systems are on par with the Radeon RX 570 or GeForce GTX 970 or faster.

GPU ShareChange
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3.9%−0.28 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Laptop GPULaptop 3.9%−0.28 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 2.9%−0.11 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Laptop GPULaptop 2.9%−0.11 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 2.9%−0.03 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Laptop GPULaptop 2.9%−0.03 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 2.7%+0.27 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 2.5%−0.20 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Laptop GPULaptop 2.5%−0.20 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 2.4%+0.34 pts

Every GPU in the latest survey

Biggest gains

GPU ShareChange
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 2.4%+0.34 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 2.7%+0.27 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 0.8%+0.13 pts
Intel Iris Xe GraphicsIntegrated 0.5%+0.09 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 0.3%+0.09 pts

Biggest losses

GPU ShareChange
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3.9%−0.28 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Laptop GPULaptop 3.9%−0.28 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 2.5%−0.20 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Laptop GPULaptop 2.5%−0.20 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 2.9%−0.11 pts

Platforms

Platform ShareChange
Windows 96.3%−0.14 pts
Windows 11 1.8%+1.81 pts
Windows 10 89.5%−1.05 pts
macOS 2.6%+0.08 pts
Linux 1.1%+0.06 pts
SteamOS 0%0.00 pts

Platform trends

CPUs

86% of the surveyed systems have at least 4 CPU cores−0.11 pts from September 2021

Surveyed systems by CPU core count
  1. 1 core 0.2%
  2. 2 cores 12.9%
  3. 3 cores 0.6%
  4. 4 cores 37.2%
  5. 6 cores 30.7%
  6. 8 cores 16.1%
  7. 10 cores 0.7%
  8. 12 cores 1.1%
  9. 16 cores 0.3%
  • At least 4 cores
  • Fewer than 4 cores
Surveyed systems by CPU vendor
AMD
30.8%+0.58 pts
Intel
69.2%−0.58 pts

RAM

59% of the surveyed systems have at least 16 GB of RAM −0.31 pts from September 2021

Surveyed systems by RAM
  1. Less than 2 GB <0.1%
  2. 2 GB 0.3%
  3. 3 GB 1.3%
  4. 4 GB 4.0%
  5. 5 GB 0.2%
  6. 6 GB 2.3%
  7. 7 GB 2.8%
  8. 8 GB 23.2%
  9. 9 GB <0.1%
  10. 10 GB 0.4%
  11. 11 GB 0.2%
  12. 12 GB 2.2%
  13. 13 GB <0.1%
  14. 14 GB 1.4%
  15. 15 GB 2.8%
  16. 16 GB 45.8%
  17. More than 16 GB 12.9%
  • At least 16 GB
  • Less than 16 GB

How the figures are counted