GearCensus

Steam Hardware Survey, May 2026

The GPUs, platforms, CPUs, and RAM of the surveyed systems, and how they changed from April 2026.

GPUs from surveyed systems by vendor
NVIDIA
75.3%−0.87 pts
AMD
16.4%+0.43 pts
Intel
6.2%+0.28 pts
Apple
2.1%+0.16 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 3060 3.9%−0.14 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPULaptop 3.8%−0.01 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 3.6%−0.31 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 3.1%+0.06 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 2.9%+0.06 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 2.4%−0.14 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 2.3%−0.13 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 2.2%−0.15 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 2.0%−0.10 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 2.0%+0.14 pts

Every GPU in the latest survey

Biggest gains

GPU ShareChange
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 2.0%+0.14 pts
Apple M2 GPUIntegrated 1.9%+0.14 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GPULaptop 1.7%+0.11 pts
Valve Steam Deck GPUHandheld 0.9%+0.09 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPULaptop 1.6%+0.07 pts

Biggest losses

GPU ShareChange
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 3.6%−0.31 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 2.2%−0.15 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3.9%−0.14 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 2.4%−0.14 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 2.3%−0.13 pts

Platforms

Platform ShareChange
Windows 93.9%−0.51 pts
Windows 11 69.8%+2.01 pts
Windows 10 24.0%−1.63 pts
macOS 2.2%+0.14 pts
Linux 3.1%+0.27 pts
SteamOS 0.9%+0.10 pts

Platform trends

CPUs

55% of the surveyed systems have at least 8 CPU cores+0.28 pts from April 2026

Surveyed systems by CPU core count
  1. 2 cores 3.1%
  2. 4 cores 13.3%
  3. 5 cores 0.2%
  4. 6 cores 28.0%
  5. 8 cores 27.5%
  6. 10 cores 7.3%
  7. 12 cores 5.1%
  8. 14 cores 4.8%
  9. 16 cores 5.6%
  10. 18 cores 0.1%
  11. 20 cores 2.1%
  12. 24 cores 2.8%
  • At least 8 cores
  • Fewer than 8 cores
Surveyed systems by CPU vendor
AMD
44.9%+0.77 pts
Intel
53.2%−0.91 pts
Apple
1.9%+0.14 pts

RAM

88% of the surveyed systems have at least 16 GB of RAM −0.26 pts from April 2026

Surveyed systems by RAM
  1. Less than 4 GB <0.1%
  2. 4 GB 1.5%
  3. 8 GB 7.9%
  4. 12 GB 2.6%
  5. 16 GB 41.4%
  6. 24 GB 2.1%
  7. 28 GB 0.5%
  8. 32 GB 37.1%
  9. 48 GB 1.2%
  10. 60 GB 1.0%
  11. 64 GB 4.2%
  12. More than 64 GB 0.6%
  • At least 16 GB
  • Less than 16 GB

How the figures are counted