GearCensus

Steam Hardware Survey, October 2024

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

GPUs from surveyed systems by vendor
NVIDIA
80.2%−1.53 pts
AMD
13.4%+0.74 pts
Intel
6.4%+0.79 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 7.2%+1.53 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPULaptop 5.4%+1.20 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 5.1%+0.62 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 4.1%+0.67 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 4.1%+0.58 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 4.1%+0.88 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 3.6%+1.75 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPULaptop 3.6%+0.64 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 3.5%+0.70 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 3.4%+0.81 pts

Every GPU in the latest survey

Biggest gains

GPU ShareChange
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 3.6%+1.75 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 7.2%+1.53 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPULaptop 5.4%+1.20 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 4.1%+0.88 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 3.4%+0.81 pts

Biggest losses

GPU ShareChange
NVIDIA GeForce RTX T10-8 0.2%−0.03 pts

Platforms

Platform ShareChange
Windows 97.1%+0.31 pts
Windows 11 51.4%+3.69 pts
Windows 10 45.5%−3.20 pts
macOS 1.1%−0.18 pts
Linux 1.1%−0.03 pts
SteamOS 0.6%−0.10 pts

Platform trends

CPUs

79% of the surveyed systems have at least 6 CPU cores−0.06 pts from September 2024

Surveyed systems by CPU core count
  1. 2 cores 4.0%
  2. 3 cores 0.2%
  3. 4 cores 17.1%
  4. 6 cores 32.0%
  5. 8 cores 22.2%
  6. 10 cores 6.8%
  7. 12 cores 5.8%
  8. 14 cores 4.4%
  9. 16 cores 4.4%
  10. 20 cores 1.0%
  11. 24 cores 2.1%
  • At least 6 cores
  • Fewer than 6 cores
Surveyed systems by CPU vendor
AMD
36.1%+3.24 pts
Intel
63.0%−3.11 pts
Apple
0.8%−0.13 pts

RAM

85% of the surveyed systems have at least 16 GB of RAM +0.07 pts from September 2024

Surveyed systems by RAM
  1. Less than 4 GB <0.1%
  2. 4 GB 2.1%
  3. 8 GB 9.9%
  4. 12 GB 2.9%
  5. 16 GB 47.1%
  6. 24 GB 1.5%
  7. 32 GB 31.9%
  8. 48 GB 0.6%
  9. 64 GB 3.6%
  10. More than 64 GB 0.4%
  • At least 16 GB
  • Less than 16 GB

How the figures are counted