GearCensus

Steam Hardware Survey, March 2024

The GPUs, platforms, CPUs, and RAM of the surveyed systems, and how they changed from February 2024.

GPUs from surveyed systems by vendor
NVIDIA
81.1%−0.03 pts
AMD
12.6%−0.10 pts
Intel
6.3%+0.13 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 6.7%+0.71 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 3.9%+0.21 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 3.9%+0.12 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPULaptop 3.0%−0.41 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 2.5%+0.57 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 2.4%+0.32 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 2.4%−0.13 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPULaptop 2.3%−0.23 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 2.2%+0.04 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 2.1%−0.10 pts

Every GPU in the latest survey

Biggest gains

GPU ShareChange
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 6.7%+0.71 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 2.5%+0.57 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 2.4%+0.32 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 2.0%+0.30 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 3.9%+0.21 pts

Biggest losses

GPU ShareChange
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPULaptop 3.0%−0.41 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPULaptop 2.3%−0.23 pts
NVIDIA GeForce MX250Laptop –−0.16 pts
NVIDIA GeForce MX450Laptop –−0.16 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 2.4%−0.13 pts

Platforms

Platform ShareChange
Windows 96.6%−0.31 pts
Windows 11 41.6%−0.36 pts
Windows 10 54.4%+0.19 pts
macOS 1.4%+0.08 pts
Linux 1.1%+0.11 pts
SteamOS 0.9%+0.11 pts

Platform trends

CPUs

74% of the surveyed systems have at least 6 CPU cores+0.81 pts from February 2024

Surveyed systems by CPU core count
  1. 2 cores 5.3%
  2. 3 cores 0.3%
  3. 4 cores 19.9%
  4. 6 cores 34.8%
  5. 8 cores 19.8%
  6. 10 cores 5.6%
  7. 12 cores 5.5%
  8. 14 cores 3.5%
  9. 16 cores 3.3%
  10. 20 cores 0.4%
  11. 24 cores 1.3%
  • At least 6 cores
  • Fewer than 6 cores
Surveyed systems by CPU vendor
AMD
31.6%−0.73 pts
Intel
67.4%+0.66 pts
Apple
1.0%+0.07 pts

RAM

82% of the surveyed systems have at least 16 GB of RAM +0.69 pts from February 2024

Surveyed systems by RAM
  1. Less than 4 GB <0.1%
  2. 4 GB 2.8%
  3. 8 GB 11.9%
  4. 12 GB 2.9%
  5. 16 GB 48.3%
  6. 24 GB 1.2%
  7. 32 GB 29.7%
  8. 64 GB 2.9%
  9. More than 64 GB 0.3%
  • At least 16 GB
  • Less than 16 GB

How the figures are counted