GearCensus

Steam Hardware Survey, January 2024

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

GPUs from surveyed systems by vendor
NVIDIA
78.7%+0.15 pts
AMD
14.0%+0.15 pts
Intel
7.2%−0.30 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 4.8%−0.30 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPULaptop 3.7%+0.36 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 3.3%−0.07 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 3.0%−0.20 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 2.7%+0.17 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPULaptop 2.5%+0.56 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 2.3%−0.01 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Laptop GPULaptop 2.3%−0.01 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 2.2%−0.08 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 2.1%−0.06 pts

Every GPU in the latest survey

Biggest gains

GPU ShareChange
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPULaptop 2.5%+0.56 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPULaptop 3.7%+0.36 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 2.7%+0.17 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050Laptop 0.2%+0.17 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop GPULaptop 0.2%+0.15 pts

Biggest losses

GPU ShareChange
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 4.8%−0.30 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 3.0%−0.20 pts
Intel HD Graphics 3000Integrated –−0.16 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 1.7%−0.10 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Laptop GPULaptop 1.7%−0.10 pts

Platforms

Platform ShareChange
Windows 96.5%+0.08 pts
Windows 11 44.2%+2.29 pts
Windows 10 51.4%−2.02 pts
macOS 1.5%−0.08 pts
Linux 1.1%−0.03 pts
SteamOS 0.8%+0.03 pts

Platform trends

CPUs

71% of the surveyed systems have at least 6 CPU cores+0.66 pts from December 2023

Surveyed systems by CPU core count
  1. 2 cores 6.3%
  2. 3 cores 0.3%
  3. 4 cores 22.5%
  4. 6 cores 31.6%
  5. 8 cores 20.9%
  6. 10 cores 4.1%
  7. 12 cores 5.1%
  8. 14 cores 3.8%
  9. 16 cores 3.1%
  10. 18 cores 0.4%
  11. 20 cores 0.2%
  12. 24 cores 1.5%
  • At least 6 cores
  • Fewer than 6 cores
Surveyed systems by CPU vendor
AMD
34.4%+0.63 pts
Intel
64.5%−0.57 pts
Apple
1.1%−0.06 pts

RAM

79% of the surveyed systems have at least 16 GB of RAM +0.75 pts from December 2023

Surveyed systems by RAM
  1. Less than 4 GB <0.1%
  2. 4 GB 3.4%
  3. 8 GB 13.8%
  4. 12 GB 3.3%
  5. 16 GB 50.0%
  6. 24 GB 1.3%
  7. 32 GB 23.9%
  8. 48 GB 0.5%
  9. 64 GB 3.4%
  10. More than 64 GB 0.3%
  • At least 16 GB
  • Less than 16 GB

How the figures are counted