GearCensus

Steam Hardware Survey, September 2026

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

GPUs from surveyed systems by vendor
NVIDIA
78.7%+2.71 pts
AMD
14.1%−1.61 pts
Intel
5.3%−0.90 pts
Apple
1.9%−0.20 pts

Most popular GPUs

About half of the GPUs from surveyed systems are on par with the Radeon RX 7600 or GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER or faster.

GPU ShareChange
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 5.9%+2.30 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 4.2%+1.22 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 3.9%+1.46 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 3.7%+0.30 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3.5%−0.22 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPULaptop 3.4%−0.28 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 2.8%−0.27 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 2.7%+0.48 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GPULaptop 2.3%−0.17 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 2.0%+0.32 pts

Every GPU in the latest survey

Biggest gains

GPU ShareChange
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 5.9%+2.30 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 3.9%+1.46 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 4.2%+1.22 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 2.7%+0.48 pts
AMD Radeon 610MIntegrated 0.4%+0.35 pts

Biggest losses

GPU ShareChange
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPULaptop 3.4%−0.28 pts
Valve Steam Deck GPUHandheld 0.5%−0.28 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 2.8%−0.27 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3.5%−0.22 pts
AMD Radeon Graphics (Raphael)Integrated –−0.22 pts

Platforms

Platform ShareChange
Windows 95.0%+1.04 pts
Windows 11 71.3%+0.35 pts
Windows 10 23.6%+0.71 pts
macOS 1.9%−0.21 pts
Linux 2.5%−0.54 pts
SteamOS 0.5%−0.29 pts

Platform trends

CPUs

59% of the surveyed systems have at least 8 CPU cores+2.35 pts from August 2026

Surveyed systems by CPU core count
  1. 2 cores 2.5%
  2. 4 cores 10.8%
  3. 5 cores 0.2%
  4. 6 cores 27.2%
  5. 8 cores 30.1%
  6. 10 cores 8.2%
  7. 12 cores 4.8%
  8. 14 cores 5.2%
  9. 16 cores 5.8%
  10. 18 cores 0.3%
  11. 20 cores 2.1%
  12. 24 cores 2.8%
  • At least 8 cores
  • Fewer than 8 cores
Surveyed systems by CPU vendor
AMD
47.1%+1.69 pts
Intel
51.2%−1.52 pts
Apple
1.7%−0.17 pts

RAM

52% of the surveyed systems have at least 24 GB of RAM +4.72 pts from August 2026

Surveyed systems by RAM
  1. Less than 4 GB <0.1%
  2. 4 GB 1.2%
  3. 8 GB 6.5%
  4. 12 GB 2.1%
  5. 16 GB 38.2%
  6. 24 GB 2.6%
  7. 32 GB 42.7%
  8. 48 GB 1.5%
  9. 60 GB 0.9%
  10. 64 GB 3.7%
  11. More than 64 GB 0.5%
  • At least 24 GB
  • Less than 24 GB

How the figures are counted