GearCensus

Steam Hardware Survey, April 2023

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

GPUs from surveyed systems by vendor
NVIDIA
80.2%−9.51 pts
AMD
12.1%+5.33 pts
Intel
7.7%+4.19 pts

Most popular GPUs

About half of the GPUs from surveyed systems are on par with the GeForce RTX 3050 or faster.

GPU ShareChange
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 4.5%−5.93 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPULaptop 4.4%+1.32 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 3.0%−1.92 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 3.0%+1.01 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Laptop GPULaptop 3.0%+1.01 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 2.9%−2.46 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 2.6%+0.30 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 2.6%+0.69 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 2.4%−1.43 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Laptop GPULaptop 2.4%−1.43 pts

Every GPU in the latest survey

Biggest gains

GPU ShareChange
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPULaptop 4.4%+1.32 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 3.0%+1.01 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Laptop GPULaptop 3.0%+1.01 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 2.6%+0.69 pts
Intel Iris Xe GraphicsIntegrated 1.6%+0.60 pts

Biggest losses

GPU ShareChange
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 4.5%−5.93 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 2.9%−2.46 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 3.0%−1.92 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 2.2%−1.79 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Laptop GPULaptop 2.2%−1.79 pts

Platforms

Platform ShareChange
Windows 96.4%−1.35 pts
Windows 11 33.4%+10.99 pts
Windows 10 61.2%−12.73 pts
macOS 2.3%+0.88 pts
Linux 1.0%+0.35 pts
SteamOS 0.3%+0.12 pts

Platform trends

CPUs

63% of the surveyed systems have at least 6 CPU cores−10.25 pts from March 2023

Surveyed systems by CPU core count
  1. 1 core 0.1%
  2. 2 cores 8.8%
  3. 3 cores 0.4%
  4. 4 cores 27.7%
  5. 6 cores 33.5%
  6. 8 cores 19.6%
  7. 10 cores 2.1%
  8. 12 cores 3.9%
  9. 14 cores 2.2%
  10. 16 cores 1.3%
  11. 24 cores 0.4%
  • At least 6 cores
  • Fewer than 6 cores
Surveyed systems by CPU vendor
AMD
20.8%−2.95 pts
Intel
44.3%−31.14 pts
Apple
34.9%+34.09 pts

RAM

72% of the surveyed systems have at least 16 GB of RAM −10.00 pts from March 2023

Surveyed systems by RAM
  1. Less than 4 GB 0.2%
  2. 4 GB 5.0%
  3. 8 GB 19.5%
  4. 12 GB 3.5%
  5. 16 GB 52.6%
  6. 24 GB 1.2%
  7. 32 GB 16.2%
  8. 64 GB 1.6%
  9. More than 64 GB 0.2%
  • At least 16 GB
  • Less than 16 GB

How the figures are counted