Steam’s Hardware survey is a great tool that comes out on a monthly basis to help gauge the community’s hardware setup. This can be good for seeing how many CPU cores are most common, what OS is being used the most, or most commonly; to see what GPU is the most common across all the community.
This time around though, if you’re one of the 10% ish users to get surveyed, you’ve brought up some weird survey results; including helping a laptop GPU land as the most used GPU on Steam for the first time in who knows how long.
Going off the rip, let’s start with the stuff most people are probably talking about. Your Operating system. Windows is up 0.25% maintaining its 94.1% monopoly over macOS and Linux, but the interesting thing to me is that all of the popular gaming options are down. SteamOS, CachyOS, Bazzite, and Arch Linux are all down.
Talking about the GPU is where things get a little bit interesting. For years the GPU market has essentially been dominated by whatever the 60 class card was due to most people just; not needing more than that. The 1060, 2060, 3060 were all solid choices for that top contender, but this month, the RTX 4060 Laptop Edition has topped the charts at just 3.81% of users for the month of June.
Something I’d say is pretty comparable to the Steam Machine GPU landing at the top seems pretty appropriate, and if you’re in the market for mobile power, maybe that’s the way to go? Your usual contenders though remain close behing. 3060 at 3.73%, 5060 at a lower 2.66%. All of this being said as the highest AMD GPU is currently “AMD Radeon Graphics” at just 1.84%, with the 9070XT holding in at 1.27%.
And just the last notes, 1080p stands strong with 51.12% of users, total hard drive space is above 1tb at 49.3%, and the Meta Quest 3 remains the most popular VR headset at 27.98%. Though the Quest 2 gained what the 3 lost, climbing to 23.54% in the same time. If the Steam Hardware surveys remain something of interest to you, it’s always worth checking this out as they update the numbers monthly. Or hey, maybe we’ll be back with more on it.
Even if it’s less than a tenth of a percent, that’s still noticable in small communities. Though again this is only about 10% of the entire Steam Userbase, so some sections may feature more Linux use. RAM continues to hold strong with 16GB used by 41.57%, 32GB in second at 36.79%, and 8GB in third at just 7.76%. I hope for the 1.44% with 4GB in these trying times.
Source: Valve
