Valve unveiled the new monthly Steam Hardware and Software survey, which tallies the system information from its users to see what users are gaming with on their platform. NVIDIA has primarily stayed on top in the graphics card category on the survey, and with the recent results, this has not changed the company’s place on the list.
February’s Steam Hardware & Software survey looks good for NVIDIA once again, with AMD and Intel trailing behind in recent results
February’s Steam Hardware and Software survey shows that the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 is the most-used graphics card by Valve’s users. The results show that in October 2022, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 was 5.6% of users, with the GTX 1060 being the top at 7.62%. While the GTX 1060 has remained stagnant on the list, the GTX 1650 shows a slight decline over the five months by a difference of 0.15%.
AMD-integrated Radeon Graphics came in at thirteenth place with 1.98% of users polled, and Intel Iris Xe Graphics (also integrated onto its CPU) in fifteenth place with 1.71% of users. The Top 10 graphics cards Steam users use also lack NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 40 series, AMD’s Radeon 7000 series, and Intel Arc A series graphics cards. The high dollar amount the cards are currently priced at for all companies may factor in users not upgrading to the newer GPUs.
Computer processors tell a different story, with Intel seeing an uphill climb after several months of declining user numbers. The company held onto 67.17% of Valve’s user base, with AMD seeing a share of 32.8% of clients. Six core processors are polled as the most used core count for gamers on Valve’s Steam platform. On Linux, most users preferred AMD processors over Intel by eleven percent in the former’s favor.
When looking at operating systems, Windows 11 had a minor increase of 1.73%, but Windows 10 was still considered the “go-to” OS for users, with Mac and Linux following behind. Also, DirectX 12 is widely becoming more adopted as newer games take advantage of the software, with 75.23% of users now upgraded to DirectX 12.
VR Headsets make up 2.07% of the polled users, which is a minimal decline of 0.12% of users. The Oculus Quest 2, which has changed the terminology to Meta Quest 2, makes up 44.65% of users, with the Sony PlayStation VR accounting for 0.06% of users. With new headsets currently out for Meta and with Sony’s new headset on the horizon, it will be interesting if we will see more of a decline with the former mentioned.
News Sources: Valve Steam Hardware Survey, Kuai Technology
