GearCensus

Steam Hardware Survey, August 2023

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

GPUs from surveyed systems by vendor
NVIDIA
79.3%+1.24 pts
AMD
13.3%−0.14 pts
Intel
7.4%−1.10 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 4.7%+0.02 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPULaptop 4.2%+0.53 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 3.4%+0.12 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 3.1%−0.05 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 2.5%+0.18 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 2.5%+0.03 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 2.5%−0.08 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Laptop GPULaptop 2.5%−0.08 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 2.2%+0.04 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 2.1%−0.13 pts

Every GPU in the latest survey

Biggest gains

GPU ShareChange
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPULaptop 1.6%+0.67 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPULaptop 4.2%+0.53 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 0.2%+0.22 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPULaptop 0.2%+0.19 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 2.5%+0.18 pts

Biggest losses

GPU ShareChange
Intel HD Graphics 630Integrated –−0.16 pts
NVIDIA GeForce MX110Laptop –−0.16 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 2.1%−0.13 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Laptop GPULaptop 2.1%−0.13 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 1.6%−0.11 pts

Platforms

Platform ShareChange
Windows 96.6%+0.43 pts
Windows 11 39.2%+2.56 pts
Windows 10 56.0%−1.87 pts
macOS 1.6%−0.24 pts
Linux 1.0%−0.15 pts
SteamOS 0.8%−0.05 pts

Platform trends

CPUs

67% of the surveyed systems have at least 6 CPU cores+2.69 pts from July 2023

Surveyed systems by CPU core count
  1. 1 core 0.1%
  2. 2 cores 7.5%
  3. 3 cores 0.4%
  4. 4 cores 24.9%
  5. 6 cores 32.3%
  6. 8 cores 20.4%
  7. 10 cores 3.2%
  8. 12 cores 4.7%
  9. 14 cores 3.2%
  10. 16 cores 2.4%
  11. 24 cores 1.0%
  • At least 6 cores
  • Fewer than 6 cores
Surveyed systems by CPU vendor
AMD
33.6%−0.34 pts
Intel
65.4%−0.69 pts
Apple
1.0%+1.03 pts

RAM

76% of the surveyed systems have at least 16 GB of RAM +2.26 pts from July 2023

Surveyed systems by RAM
  1. Less than 4 GB 0.1%
  2. 4 GB 4.3%
  3. 8 GB 15.9%
  4. 12 GB 3.6%
  5. 16 GB 51.4%
  6. 24 GB 1.2%
  7. 32 GB 20.8%
  8. 64 GB 2.4%
  9. More than 64 GB 0.2%
  • At least 16 GB
  • Less than 16 GB

How the figures are counted