GearCensus

Steam Hardware Survey, January 2023

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

GPUs from surveyed systems by vendor
NVIDIA
78.5%−0.83 pts
AMD
12.6%+0.58 pts
Intel
8.9%+0.25 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 4.3%+0.42 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3.5%−0.20 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 3.0%+0.03 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Laptop GPULaptop 3.0%+0.03 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 2.6%+0.10 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 2.6%−0.05 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 2.6%−0.18 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Laptop GPULaptop 2.6%−0.18 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 2.4%−0.09 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 2.3%+0.21 pts

Every GPU in the latest survey

Biggest gains

GPU ShareChange
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPULaptop 4.3%+0.42 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 0.2%+0.23 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 2.3%+0.21 pts
AMD Radeon RX 5500MLaptop 0.2%+0.16 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 2.6%+0.10 pts

Biggest losses

GPU ShareChange
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3.5%−0.20 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 2.6%−0.18 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Laptop GPULaptop 2.6%−0.18 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 1.3%−0.17 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 –−0.16 pts

Platforms

Platform ShareChange
Windows 97.4%+1.26 pts
Windows 11 30.8%+2.35 pts
Windows 10 64.4%−0.99 pts
macOS 2.1%−0.31 pts
Linux 0.4%−0.61 pts
SteamOS 0%−0.33 pts

Platform trends

CPUs

60% of the surveyed systems have at least 6 CPU cores+0.24 pts from December 2022

Surveyed systems by CPU core count
  1. 1 core 0.2%
  2. 2 cores 10.0%
  3. 3 cores 0.4%
  4. 4 cores 29.5%
  5. 6 cores 32.1%
  6. 8 cores 19.6%
  7. 10 cores 1.9%
  8. 12 cores 3.4%
  9. 14 cores 1.7%
  10. 16 cores 1.1%
  11. 24 cores 0.2%
  • At least 6 cores
  • Fewer than 6 cores
Surveyed systems by CPU vendor
AMD
32.8%+1.14 pts
Intel
67.2%+0.11 pts

RAM

69% of the surveyed systems have at least 16 GB of RAM −0.03 pts from December 2022

Surveyed systems by RAM
  1. Less than 4 GB 0.2%
  2. 4 GB 5.9%
  3. 8 GB 21.5%
  4. 12 GB 3.6%
  5. 16 GB 52.2%
  6. 24 GB 1.1%
  7. 32 GB 14.0%
  8. 64 GB 1.4%
  9. More than 64 GB 0.1%
  • At least 16 GB
  • Less than 16 GB

How the figures are counted