GearCensus

Steam Hardware Survey, October 2022

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

GPUs from surveyed systems by vendor
NVIDIA
82.8%+1.84 pts
AMD
10.3%−1.32 pts
Intel
6.9%−0.52 pts

Most popular GPUs

About half of the GPUs from surveyed systems are on par with the GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER or Radeon RX 590 or faster.

GPU ShareChange
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 5.3%+1.89 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3.7%+0.33 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Laptop GPULaptop 3.7%+0.33 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPULaptop 3.3%−0.59 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 3.0%+0.44 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Laptop GPULaptop 3.0%+0.44 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 2.7%−0.34 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Laptop GPULaptop 2.7%−0.34 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 2.7%+0.41 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 2.7%+0.76 pts

Every GPU in the latest survey

Biggest gains

GPU ShareChange
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 5.3%+1.89 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 2.7%+0.76 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 3.0%+0.44 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Laptop GPULaptop 3.0%+0.44 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 2.7%+0.41 pts

Biggest losses

GPU ShareChange
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPULaptop 3.3%−0.59 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 2.7%−0.34 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Laptop GPULaptop 2.7%−0.34 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 2.1%−0.25 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Laptop GPULaptop 2.1%−0.25 pts

Platforms

Platform ShareChange
Windows 96.5%+0.08 pts
Windows 11 23.4%−1.47 pts
Windows 10 68.9%+0.41 pts
macOS 2.2%−0.16 pts
Linux 1.0%−0.04 pts
SteamOS 0.3%+0.12 pts

Platform trends

CPUs

62% of the surveyed systems have at least 6 CPU cores+2.76 pts from September 2022

Surveyed systems by CPU core count
  1. 1 core 0.1%
  2. 2 cores 8.9%
  3. 3 cores 0.4%
  4. 4 cores 29.0%
  5. 6 cores 36.2%
  6. 8 cores 19.2%
  7. 10 cores 1.4%
  8. 12 cores 3.0%
  9. 14 cores 1.0%
  10. 16 cores 0.7%
  • At least 6 cores
  • Fewer than 6 cores
Surveyed systems by CPU vendor
AMD
28.7%−2.79 pts
Intel
70.2%+1.70 pts
Apple
1.1%+1.10 pts

RAM

72% of the surveyed systems have at least 16 GB of RAM +2.62 pts from September 2022

Surveyed systems by RAM
  1. Less than 4 GB 0.2%
  2. 4 GB 5.3%
  3. 8 GB 19.6%
  4. 12 GB 3.2%
  5. 16 GB 54.5%
  6. 24 GB 1.1%
  7. 32 GB 14.9%
  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