GearCensus

Steam Hardware Survey, October 2023

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

GPUs from surveyed systems by vendor
NVIDIA
85.9%+4.38 pts
AMD
9.2%−2.91 pts
Intel
4.9%−1.47 pts

Most popular GPUs

About half of the GPUs from surveyed systems are on par with the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti or Radeon RX 5600 XT or faster.

GPU ShareChange
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 9.7%+3.58 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 5.1%+1.54 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 4.8%+0.90 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 3.0%+0.69 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Laptop GPULaptop 3.0%+0.69 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPULaptop 2.7%−1.04 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 2.6%+0.47 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 2.5%+0.21 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Laptop GPULaptop 2.5%+0.21 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 2.1%−0.33 pts

Every GPU in the latest survey

Biggest gains

GPU ShareChange
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 9.7%+3.58 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 5.1%+1.54 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 1.8%+1.23 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 2.1%+1.16 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 4.8%+0.90 pts

Biggest losses

GPU ShareChange
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPULaptop 2.7%−1.04 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 1.8%−0.55 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Laptop GPULaptop 1.8%−0.55 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 2.0%−0.48 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPULaptop 1.4%−0.34 pts

Platforms

Platform ShareChange
Windows 99.1%+2.12 pts
Windows 11 31.0%−6.39 pts
Windows 10 66.7%+8.72 pts
macOS 0.6%−0.79 pts
Linux 0.3%−0.63 pts
SteamOS 0%−0.70 pts

Platform trends

CPUs

76% of the surveyed systems have at least 6 CPU cores+6.04 pts from September 2023

Surveyed systems by CPU core count
  1. 2 cores 5.1%
  2. 3 cores 0.3%
  3. 4 cores 18.9%
  4. 6 cores 39.8%
  5. 8 cores 18.2%
  6. 10 cores 5.4%
  7. 12 cores 5.7%
  8. 14 cores 2.5%
  9. 16 cores 3.0%
  10. 18 cores 0.2%
  11. 24 cores 0.9%
  • At least 6 cores
  • Fewer than 6 cores
Surveyed systems by CPU vendor
AMD
25.6%−6.26 pts
Intel
74.4%+6.26 pts

RAM

83% of the surveyed systems have at least 16 GB of RAM +4.90 pts from September 2023

Surveyed systems by RAM
  1. Less than 4 GB <0.1%
  2. 4 GB 2.8%
  3. 8 GB 11.3%
  4. 12 GB 2.5%
  5. 16 GB 48.5%
  6. 24 GB 1.0%
  7. 32 GB 31.2%
  8. 64 GB 2.3%
  9. More than 64 GB 0.2%
  • At least 16 GB
  • Less than 16 GB

How the figures are counted