GearCensus

Steam Hardware Survey, August 2026

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

GPUs from surveyed systems by vendor
NVIDIA
76.0%+1.13 pts
AMD
15.7%−0.48 pts
Intel
6.2%−0.49 pts
Apple
2.1%−0.16 pts

Most popular GPUs

About half of the GPUs from surveyed systems are on par with the GeForce RTX 3060 or Radeon RX 6600 XT or faster.

GPU ShareChange
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3.8%+0.05 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPULaptop 3.6%+0.19 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 3.6%+0.16 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 3.4%−0.01 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 3.0%0.00 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 3.0%+0.13 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GPULaptop 2.5%+0.45 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 2.4%+0.15 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 2.3%+0.02 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 2.1%0.00 pts

Every GPU in the latest survey

Biggest gains

GPU ShareChange
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GPULaptop 2.5%+0.45 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPULaptop 3.6%+0.19 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 3.6%+0.16 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 2.4%+0.15 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 3.0%+0.13 pts

Biggest losses

GPU ShareChange
NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 –−0.16 pts
Apple M2 GPUIntegrated 1.9%−0.15 pts
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT –−0.15 pts
Intel UHD Graphics 600Integrated –−0.15 pts
Intel Iris Xe GraphicsIntegrated 1.7%−0.10 pts

Platforms

Platform ShareChange
Windows 94.0%+0.33 pts
Windows 11 71.0%+0.73 pts
Windows 10 22.9%−0.40 pts
macOS 2.1%−0.19 pts
Linux 3.1%−0.06 pts
SteamOS 0.8%−0.08 pts

Platform trends

CPUs

57% of the surveyed systems have at least 8 CPU cores+1.05 pts from July 2026

Surveyed systems by CPU core count
  1. 2 cores 2.9%
  2. 4 cores 12.5%
  3. 5 cores 0.2%
  4. 6 cores 27.4%
  5. 8 cores 28.0%
  6. 10 cores 7.5%
  7. 12 cores 5.1%
  8. 14 cores 4.9%
  9. 16 cores 6.0%
  10. 18 cores 0.2%
  11. 20 cores 2.2%
  12. 24 cores 2.9%
  • At least 8 cores
  • Fewer than 8 cores
Surveyed systems by CPU vendor
AMD
45.4%+0.21 pts
Intel
52.7%−0.05 pts
Apple
1.9%−0.16 pts

RAM

89% of the surveyed systems have at least 16 GB of RAM +0.76 pts from July 2026

Surveyed systems by RAM
  1. Less than 4 GB <0.1%
  2. 4 GB 1.4%
  3. 8 GB 7.5%
  4. 12 GB 2.4%
  5. 16 GB 41.5%
  6. 24 GB 2.2%
  7. 28 GB 0.5%
  8. 32 GB 37.7%
  9. 48 GB 1.2%
  10. 60 GB 1.0%
  11. 64 GB 4.0%
  12. More than 64 GB 0.6%
  • At least 16 GB
  • Less than 16 GB

How the figures are counted