Steam just released their monthly hardware survey, and it shows some interesting trends, with several categories seeing a change in their top performer compared to January. The most noticeable are the most used GPU, RAM quantity and operating system, with a noticeable increase for a particular monitor resolution. Let's get into it!

Starting with the GPU, aka the graphics card. The Nvidia RTX 4060 saw a 3.91% increase from last month, becoming the most used GPU among Steam Gamers at 8.37% adoption rate and dethroning the previous champion, the RTX 3060, which sits at 6.73%. The top 5 is rounded out by the 4060 Ti at 6.40%, 4070 at 5.30%, and 3070 at 4.18%.

If you're looking for an AMD card, you'll have to look way lower down the list. The first entry is just a generic "AMD Radeon Graphics" at 1.26%, likely getting that hight due to the Steam Deck, which uses integrated AMD graphics. The first proper AMD card is the RX6600 at 0.62%, followed by the 580 at 0.51%, and the RX6700XT at 0.48%. Ouch! Intel is also present on the list with mostly integrated graphics.


All Green with a bit of Red and Blue.

Unfortunately, the survey doesn't give us any numbers on what specific processors are the most used by gamers. What we do know is that 35.52% of Steam users have a 6-core CPU, 20.51% have an 8-core, and 11.83% only have a quad core in their system. Interestingly, Intel CPUs seem to have seen a 6% increase compared to AMD ones, despite the 13 and 14 series Intel Core i processors having major issues. 


There were a few more lines that aren't in this screenshot, but they were all at 0% and didn't feel relevant.

Another major offset is in the amount of RAM a Steam user's PC has. Up until now, 16GB has been the standard, but that has gone down to 36.71% of users having that amount, a decrease of 8.01% since January. Meanwhile, 46.94% of users now 32GB of RAM, a whooping 13.73% increase since last month. Third place goes to 8GB users, who make up 6.58% of PCs.


16GB should be enough for most games, so long as you close the 20 Chrome tabs you're not using.

Perhaps the biggest change comes in the OS of choice. To the surprise of no one, 97.58% of users game on Windows, but the version used is very surprising. Windows 10 saw a 10.47% increase since January, resulting in a 53.34% usage rate and overtaking Windows 11, which dropped 9.36% from last month and landing at 44.10% adoption. This is a little odd, since Microsoft announced it will end support for Windows 10 in October this year.

The last 0.10% of the pie goes to Windows 7, who's still hanging by a thread. Linux has a 1.45% adoption rate among Steam users, most of it likely due to the Steam Deck. Valve is supposed launch a standalone version of SteamOS sometime in the near future, so we'll see if that helps the percentage go up. Lastly, there's Apple's OSX, with a 0.97% adoption rate.


Telling that Windows 8 is nowhere to be seen.

Last statistic we'll take a look at is monitor resolution. 2560x1440 saw a nice 9.92% bump since Januray, for a total of 29.98% share. That said, it's a far cry from good ol' 1920x1080, which, even though it saw a 3.69% decrease since January, still makes up a staggering 52.35% of gaming monitors for Steam users. Goes to show that almost no one is in a rush to game at 4K.


Wait, that first one is taller than it is wider! Which of you is gaming in portrait mode?

What do you think of the average Steam PC? How many of these boxes do you tick? Let us know in the comments below!