GearCensus

Steam Hardware Survey, February 2022

The GPUs, platforms, CPUs, and RAM of the surveyed systems, and how they changed from January 2022.

GPUs from surveyed systems by vendor
NVIDIA
79.6%+1.12 pts
AMD
11.3%−0.70 pts
Intel
8.0%−0.46 pts
Apple
1.1%+0.03 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%+0.10 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Laptop GPULaptop 3.9%+0.10 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 3.0%−0.02 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Laptop GPULaptop 3.0%−0.02 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 2.8%−0.02 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Laptop GPULaptop 2.8%−0.02 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 2.6%+0.11 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Laptop GPULaptop 2.6%+0.11 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 2.3%−0.06 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPULaptop 2.3%+0.28 pts

Every GPU in the latest survey

Biggest gains

GPU ShareChange
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPULaptop 2.3%+0.28 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 1.9%+0.25 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 0.8%+0.19 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPULaptop 0.8%+0.12 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 2.6%+0.11 pts

Biggest losses

GPU ShareChange
AMD Radeon RX 5700 –−0.16 pts
NVIDIA GeForce 920MLaptop –−0.16 pts
AMD Radeon RX 580 1.4%−0.08 pts
Intel UHD Graphics 620Integrated 0.7%−0.07 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 2.3%−0.06 pts

Platforms

Platform ShareChange
Windows 97.3%+1.11 pts
Windows 11 15.8%+2.19 pts
Windows 10 76.6%−1.34 pts
macOS 2.2%−0.59 pts
Linux 0.5%−0.51 pts
SteamOS 0%0.00 pts

Platform trends

CPUs

53% of the surveyed systems have at least 6 CPU cores+1.58 pts from January 2022

Surveyed systems by CPU core count
  1. 1 core 0.2%
  2. 2 cores 11.7%
  3. 3 cores 0.5%
  4. 4 cores 34.7%
  5. 6 cores 32.2%
  6. 8 cores 17.7%
  7. 10 cores 1.0%
  8. 12 cores 1.4%
  9. 16 cores 0.4%
  • At least 6 cores
  • Fewer than 6 cores

RAM

64% of the surveyed systems have at least 16 GB of RAM +1.55 pts from January 2022

Surveyed systems by RAM
  1. Less than 4 GB 0.3%
  2. 4 GB 7.1%
  3. 8 GB 25.0%
  4. 12 GB 3.6%
  5. 16 GB 50.9%
  6. 24 GB 1.1%
  7. 32 GB 11.0%
  8. 64 GB 1.0%
  9. More than 64 GB 0.1%
  • At least 16 GB
  • Less than 16 GB

How the figures are counted