GearCensus

Steam Hardware Survey, August 2022

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

GPUs from surveyed systems by vendor
NVIDIA
79.8%−2.50 pts
AMD
11.8%−0.35 pts
Intel
8.3%+2.85 pts

Most popular GPUs

About half of the GPUs from surveyed systems are on par with the GeForce GTX 1060 or Radeon RX 580 or faster.

GPU ShareChange
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPULaptop 3.3%+0.02 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3.2%−0.29 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Laptop GPULaptop 3.2%−0.29 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3.1%+0.60 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 3.0%−0.08 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Laptop GPULaptop 3.0%−0.08 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 2.4%−0.07 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Laptop GPULaptop 2.4%−0.07 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 2.4%−0.36 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Laptop GPULaptop 2.4%−0.36 pts

Every GPU in the latest survey

Biggest gains

GPU ShareChange
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3.1%+0.60 pts
Intel Iris Xe GraphicsIntegrated 1.2%+0.43 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 1.6%+0.22 pts
Intel UHD Graphics 620Integrated 0.7%+0.19 pts
Intel HD Graphics 6000Integrated 0.2%+0.18 pts

Biggest losses

GPU ShareChange
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 2.4%−0.36 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Laptop GPULaptop 2.4%−0.36 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3.2%−0.29 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Laptop GPULaptop 3.2%−0.29 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 1.0%−0.20 pts

Platforms

Platform ShareChange
Windows 96.2%−0.82 pts
Windows 11 23.8%+2.65 pts
Windows 10 69.1%−4.07 pts
macOS 2.5%+0.78 pts
Linux 1.1%−0.04 pts
SteamOS 0.2%+0.08 pts

Platform trends

CPUs

57% of the surveyed systems have at least 6 CPU cores−0.74 pts from July 2022

Surveyed systems by CPU core count
  1. 1 core 0.2%
  2. 2 cores 10.6%
  3. 3 cores 0.5%
  4. 4 cores 31.3%
  5. 6 cores 33.0%
  6. 8 cores 19.0%
  7. 10 cores 1.4%
  8. 12 cores 2.6%
  9. 14 cores 0.8%
  10. 16 cores 0.7%
  • At least 6 cores
  • Fewer than 6 cores
Surveyed systems by CPU vendor
AMD
32.3%−1.05 pts
Intel
67.7%+1.80 pts

RAM

67% of the surveyed systems have at least 16 GB of RAM −2.40 pts from July 2022

Surveyed systems by RAM
  1. Less than 4 GB 0.2%
  2. 4 GB 6.4%
  3. 8 GB 22.5%
  4. 12 GB 3.6%
  5. 16 GB 51.6%
  6. 24 GB 1.1%
  7. 32 GB 13.2%
  8. 64 GB 1.2%
  9. More than 64 GB 0.1%
  • At least 16 GB
  • Less than 16 GB

How the figures are counted