GearCensus

Steam Hardware Survey, March 2023

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

GPUs from surveyed systems by vendor
NVIDIA
89.7%+9.23 pts
AMD
6.8%−5.02 pts
Intel
3.5%−4.21 pts

Most popular GPUs

About half of the GPUs from surveyed systems are on par with the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER or faster.

GPU ShareChange
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 10.4%+6.23 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 5.3%+2.50 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 5.0%+2.13 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 3.9%+1.71 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Laptop GPULaptop 3.9%+1.71 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3.8%+1.29 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Laptop GPULaptop 3.8%+1.29 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPULaptop 3.0%−1.58 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 2.6%+0.66 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 2.5%+1.11 pts

Every GPU in the latest survey

Biggest gains

GPU ShareChange
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 10.4%+6.23 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 5.3%+2.50 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 5.0%+2.13 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 3.9%+1.71 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Laptop GPULaptop 3.9%+1.71 pts

Biggest losses

GPU ShareChange
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPULaptop 3.0%−1.58 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 2.0%−0.98 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Laptop GPULaptop 2.0%−0.98 pts
Intel Iris Xe GraphicsIntegrated 1.0%−0.62 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 1.9%−0.59 pts

Platforms

Platform ShareChange
Windows 97.7%+1.38 pts
Windows 11 22.4%−9.65 pts
Windows 10 73.9%+11.62 pts
macOS 1.4%−0.94 pts
Linux 0.7%−0.62 pts
SteamOS 0.2%+0.18 pts

Platform trends

CPUs

73% of the surveyed systems have at least 6 CPU cores+10.77 pts from February 2023

Surveyed systems by CPU core count
  1. 2 cores 5.4%
  2. 3 cores 0.3%
  3. 4 cores 20.9%
  4. 6 cores 45.8%
  5. 8 cores 18.4%
  6. 10 cores 1.8%
  7. 12 cores 4.6%
  8. 14 cores 1.4%
  9. 16 cores 0.9%
  10. 24 cores 0.2%
  • At least 6 cores
  • Fewer than 6 cores
Surveyed systems by CPU vendor
AMD
23.8%−8.26 pts
Intel
75.5%+8.78 pts
Apple
0.8%−0.51 pts

RAM

82% of the surveyed systems have at least 16 GB of RAM +10.58 pts from February 2023

Surveyed systems by RAM
  1. Less than 4 GB <0.1%
  2. 4 GB 3.1%
  3. 8 GB 12.8%
  4. 12 GB 2.3%
  5. 16 GB 57.2%
  6. 24 GB 0.9%
  7. 32 GB 22.5%
  8. 64 GB 1.0%
  9. More than 64 GB <0.1%
  • At least 16 GB
  • Less than 16 GB

How the figures are counted