GearCensus

Steam Hardware Survey, April 2022

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

GPUs from surveyed systems by vendor
NVIDIA
80.1%−0.09 pts
AMD
11.7%+0.79 pts
Intel
8.2%+0.33 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 3.5%−0.51 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Laptop GPULaptop 3.5%−0.51 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 3.1%+0.19 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Laptop GPULaptop 3.1%+0.19 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 2.7%+0.04 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Laptop GPULaptop 2.7%+0.04 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPULaptop 2.6%+0.42 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 2.5%−0.27 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Laptop GPULaptop 2.5%−0.27 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 2.3%−0.08 pts

Every GPU in the latest survey

Biggest gains

GPU ShareChange
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPULaptop 2.6%+0.42 pts
AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT 0.3%+0.30 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 1.1%+0.23 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 3.1%+0.19 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Laptop GPULaptop 3.1%+0.19 pts

Biggest losses

GPU ShareChange
Apple M1 GPUIntegrated –−0.93 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3.5%−0.51 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Laptop GPULaptop 3.5%−0.51 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 2.1%−0.29 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 2.5%−0.27 pts

Platforms

Platform ShareChange
Windows 96.3%−0.24 pts
Windows 11 18.9%+2.10 pts
Windows 10 73.6%−1.12 pts
macOS 2.6%+0.12 pts
Linux 1.1%+0.13 pts
SteamOS 0%0.00 pts

Platform trends

CPUs

54% of the surveyed systems have at least 6 CPU cores−0.62 pts from March 2022

Surveyed systems by CPU core count
  1. 1 core 0.2%
  2. 2 cores 11.4%
  3. 3 cores 0.5%
  4. 4 cores 33.7%
  5. 6 cores 32.3%
  6. 8 cores 18.4%
  7. 10 cores 1.1%
  8. 12 cores 1.7%
  9. 14 cores 0.2%
  10. 16 cores 0.5%
  • At least 6 cores
  • Fewer than 6 cores
Surveyed systems by CPU vendor
AMD
30.9%+0.85 pts
Intel
68.1%−0.92 pts
Apple
1.0%+0.07 pts

RAM

65% of the surveyed systems have at least 16 GB of RAM −1.25 pts from March 2022

Surveyed systems by RAM
  1. Less than 4 GB 0.3%
  2. 4 GB 6.8%
  3. 8 GB 24.5%
  4. 12 GB 3.6%
  5. 16 GB 50.9%
  6. 24 GB 1.1%
  7. 32 GB 11.7%
  8. 64 GB 1.1%
  9. More than 64 GB 0.1%
  • At least 16 GB
  • Less than 16 GB

How the figures are counted