GearCensus

Steam Hardware Survey, December 2021

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

GPUs from surveyed systems by vendor
NVIDIA
79.2%+0.67 pts
AMD
11.9%−0.75 pts
Intel
8.1%−0.59 pts
Apple
0.9%+0.67 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 4.0%+0.17 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Laptop GPULaptop 4.0%+0.17 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 2.9%−0.06 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Laptop GPULaptop 2.9%−0.06 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 2.8%−0.09 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Laptop GPULaptop 2.8%−0.09 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 2.7%+0.19 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Laptop GPULaptop 2.7%+0.19 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 2.5%+0.14 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 2.0%+0.19 pts

Every GPU in the latest survey

Biggest gains

GPU ShareChange
Apple M1 GPUIntegrated 0.8%+0.60 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 1.8%+0.54 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 1.3%+0.30 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 2.7%+0.19 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Laptop GPULaptop 2.7%+0.19 pts

Biggest losses

GPU ShareChange
Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640Integrated –−0.22 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile Max-QLaptop –−0.15 pts
AMD Radeon RX 580 1.5%−0.10 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 2.8%−0.09 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Laptop GPULaptop 2.8%−0.09 pts

Platforms

Platform ShareChange
Windows 97.0%+0.87 pts
Windows 11 10.2%+1.97 pts
Windows 10 82.6%−0.89 pts
macOS 2.4%−0.34 pts
Linux 0.6%−0.53 pts
SteamOS 0%0.00 pts

Platform trends

CPUs

52% of the surveyed systems have at least 6 CPU cores+1.65 pts from November 2021

Surveyed systems by CPU core count
  1. 1 core 0.2%
  2. 2 cores 11.9%
  3. 3 cores 0.5%
  4. 4 cores 35.1%
  5. 6 cores 32.4%
  6. 8 cores 17.2%
  7. 10 cores 0.9%
  8. 12 cores 1.2%
  9. 16 cores 0.4%
  • At least 6 cores
  • Fewer than 6 cores

RAM

61% of the surveyed systems have at least 16 GB of RAM +1.55 pts from November 2021

Surveyed systems by RAM
  1. Less than 2 GB <0.1%
  2. 2 GB 0.3%
  3. 3 GB 1.2%
  4. 4 GB 3.6%
  5. 5 GB 0.2%
  6. 6 GB 2.1%
  7. 7 GB 2.8%
  8. 8 GB 22.0%
  9. 9 GB <0.1%
  10. 10 GB 0.3%
  11. 11 GB 0.2%
  12. 12 GB 2.1%
  13. 13 GB <0.1%
  14. 14 GB 1.2%
  15. 15 GB 2.8%
  16. 16 GB 47.4%
  17. More than 16 GB 13.7%
  • At least 16 GB
  • Less than 16 GB

How the figures are counted