GearCensus

Steam Hardware Survey, February 2023

The GPUs, platforms, CPUs, and RAM of the surveyed systems, and how they changed from January 2023.

GPUs from surveyed systems by vendor
NVIDIA
80.5%+1.96 pts
AMD
11.8%−0.79 pts
Intel
7.7%−1.17 pts

Most popular GPUs

About half of the GPUs from surveyed systems are on par with the GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER or Radeon RX 6500 XT or faster.

GPU ShareChange
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPULaptop 4.6%+0.31 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 4.2%+0.67 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 3.0%−0.06 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Laptop GPULaptop 3.0%−0.06 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 2.8%+0.23 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 2.8%+0.24 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 2.6%+0.01 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Laptop GPULaptop 2.6%+0.01 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 2.5%+0.19 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 2.4%+0.02 pts

Every GPU in the latest survey

Biggest gains

GPU ShareChange
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 4.2%+0.67 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPULaptop 4.6%+0.31 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 2.8%+0.24 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 2.8%+0.23 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 2.5%+0.19 pts

Biggest losses

GPU ShareChange
Intel HD Graphics 530Integrated –−0.17 pts
Intel HD Graphics 6000Integrated –−0.17 pts
Intel HD Graphics 630Integrated –−0.17 pts
AMD Radeon RX 5500MLaptop –−0.16 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 2.0%−0.12 pts

Platforms

Platform ShareChange
Windows 96.4%−1.07 pts
Windows 11 32.1%+1.28 pts
Windows 10 62.3%−2.12 pts
macOS 2.3%+0.21 pts
Linux 1.3%+0.86 pts
SteamOS 0%0.00 pts

Platform trends

CPUs

63% of the surveyed systems have at least 6 CPU cores+2.55 pts from January 2023

Surveyed systems by CPU core count
  1. 1 core 0.1%
  2. 2 cores 9.0%
  3. 3 cores 0.4%
  4. 4 cores 28.0%
  5. 6 cores 33.4%
  6. 8 cores 20.1%
  7. 10 cores 1.8%
  8. 12 cores 3.8%
  9. 14 cores 2.0%
  10. 16 cores 1.1%
  11. 24 cores 0.2%
  • At least 6 cores
  • Fewer than 6 cores
Surveyed systems by CPU vendor
AMD
32.0%−0.82 pts
Intel
66.7%−0.46 pts
Apple
1.3%+1.29 pts

RAM

71% of the surveyed systems have at least 16 GB of RAM +2.35 pts from January 2023

Surveyed systems by RAM
  1. Less than 4 GB 0.2%
  2. 4 GB 5.2%
  3. 8 GB 19.9%
  4. 12 GB 3.5%
  5. 16 GB 53.1%
  6. 24 GB 1.1%
  7. 32 GB 15.3%
  8. 64 GB 1.5%
  9. More than 64 GB 0.1%
  • At least 16 GB
  • Less than 16 GB

How the figures are counted