GearCensus

Steam Hardware Survey, January 2026

The GPUs, platforms, CPUs, and RAM of the surveyed systems, and how they changed from December 2025.

GPUs from surveyed systems by vendor
NVIDIA
78.2%+1.08 pts
AMD
15.8%−0.76 pts
Intel
6.0%−0.32 pts

Most popular GPUs

About half of the GPUs from surveyed systems are on par with the Radeon RX 6600 or GeForce RTX 2070 or faster.

GPU ShareChange
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 4.2%+0.46 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 4.1%+0.04 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPULaptop 3.8%−0.05 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 2.9%−0.03 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 2.7%+0.44 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 2.6%+0.09 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 2.4%+0.03 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 2.4%+0.68 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 2.2%−0.01 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 2.0%+0.06 pts

Every GPU in the latest survey

Biggest gains

GPU ShareChange
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 2.4%+0.68 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 4.2%+0.46 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 2.7%+0.44 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 1.5%+0.24 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 1.4%+0.23 pts

Biggest losses

GPU ShareChange
AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT –−0.15 pts
Valve Steam Deck GPUHandheld 0.8%−0.12 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPULaptop 2.0%−0.11 pts
Intel Iris Xe GraphicsIntegrated 1.7%−0.09 pts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 1.3%−0.08 pts

Platforms

Platform ShareChange
Windows 94.6%+0.38 pts
Windows 11 66.7%+0.11 pts
Windows 10 27.8%+0.27 pts
macOS 2.0%−0.18 pts
Linux 2.5%−0.10 pts
SteamOS 0.8%−0.11 pts

Platform trends

CPUs

55% of the surveyed systems have at least 8 CPU cores+0.80 pts from December 2025

Surveyed systems by CPU core count
  1. 2 cores 3.2%
  2. 3 cores 0.1%
  3. 4 cores 13.4%
  4. 5 cores 0.1%
  5. 6 cores 28.5%
  6. 8 cores 26.7%
  7. 10 cores 7.6%
  8. 12 cores 5.3%
  9. 14 cores 4.9%
  10. 16 cores 5.4%
  11. 20 cores 2.0%
  12. 24 cores 2.7%
  • At least 8 cores
  • Fewer than 8 cores
Surveyed systems by CPU vendor
AMD
43.3%−0.19 pts
Intel
55.0%+0.34 pts
Apple
1.7%−0.15 pts

RAM

88% of the surveyed systems have at least 16 GB of RAM +0.69 pts from December 2025

Surveyed systems by RAM
  1. Less than 4 GB <0.1%
  2. 4 GB 1.5%
  3. 8 GB 7.8%
  4. 12 GB 2.5%
  5. 16 GB 40.5%
  6. 24 GB 1.8%
  7. 28 GB 0.5%
  8. 32 GB 38.3%
  9. 48 GB 1.2%
  10. 60 GB 0.9%
  11. 64 GB 4.3%
  12. More than 64 GB 0.6%
  • At least 16 GB
  • Less than 16 GB

How the figures are counted