Friday, July 7th 2017
Steam Survey Update: It's All About Quad-cores, NVIDIA and Windows 10
An update to the Steam survey results is always worth noting, especially with the added, tremendous growth Valve's online store service has seen recently. And it seems that in the Steam gaming world at least, quad-core CPUs, NVIDIA graphics cards, and Windows 10 reign supreme.
Windows 10 64-bit is the most used operating system, with 50.33% of the survey. That the second most used Windows OS is the steady, hallmark Windows 7 shouldn't come as a surprise, though it does have just 32.05% of the market now. OS X has a measly 2.95% of the grand total, while Linux comes in at an even lower 0.72%. While AMD processor submits may have increased in other software, it seems that at least in Steam, those numbers aren't reflected, since AMD's processor market share in the survey has decreased from 21.89% in February to just 19.01% as of June, even though the company's Ryzen line of CPUs has been selling like hotcakes. Quad-core CPUs are the most used at time of the survey, at 52.06%, while the next highest percentage is still the dual-core CPU, with 42.23%.
On the graphics cards side of the equation though, AMD seems to be in a pretty considerable losing streak when it comes to the Steam hardware survey. The red company has fallen from a 26.2% market share in January 2016 to a much lower 20.5% in June 2017; it seems Polaris' price-point and lower cost of entry for FreeSync did little to convince users to migrate to the red team. Perhaps the lack of a halo product doomed AMD from the start?
There are a total of 19 NVIDIA video cards taking up the top spots in the Steam hardware survey before the first AMD video card series - the HD 7700 - makes an appearance with its measly 1.21% market share. Of the top 19 NVIDIA graphics cards, the GTX 1060 takes the top spot, with 6.29% market. Other 1000 series graphics cards from NVIDIA in the top 19 spots include the GTX 1070 (5th place with 3.60%), the GTX 1050 Ti (6th, 2.80%), the GTX 1050 (13th place, 1.74%) and the GTX 1080 (14th, 1.73%).
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Steam Hardware Survey
Windows 10 64-bit is the most used operating system, with 50.33% of the survey. That the second most used Windows OS is the steady, hallmark Windows 7 shouldn't come as a surprise, though it does have just 32.05% of the market now. OS X has a measly 2.95% of the grand total, while Linux comes in at an even lower 0.72%. While AMD processor submits may have increased in other software, it seems that at least in Steam, those numbers aren't reflected, since AMD's processor market share in the survey has decreased from 21.89% in February to just 19.01% as of June, even though the company's Ryzen line of CPUs has been selling like hotcakes. Quad-core CPUs are the most used at time of the survey, at 52.06%, while the next highest percentage is still the dual-core CPU, with 42.23%.
90 Comments on Steam Survey Update: It's All About Quad-cores, NVIDIA and Windows 10
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But you have to tell me what black screens are you referring to the 1080 gtx and what are your freq now?
The most popular display resolution, by far, is 1080p at 48%. And 1366x768(AKA laptop users) is the next most popular at 21%. But 1440p is barely over 2% of users, and 4K isn't even 1%.
We enthusiasts like to think "max settings or GTFO", but the reality is most people are more than willing to turn down settings to get the game running smooth. My cousin still plays all the latest games on a GTX760, including PUBG. He just turns down the settings. The good thing is, most modern games still look pretty decent at low settings.
Most casual gamers, and lets face it Steam is becoming a casual gaming platform, don't mind turning down settings. And with apps like GeForce experience automatically adjusting the settings for them and a lot of games auto adjusting when first run(or when they detect a hardware change), a lot of people don't even realize it. They just fire up the game and play it. Steam attracts a lot of casual console gamers to the PC side.Obviously not enough to get it un-lumped from the "Other" category. And I'm not surprised. The 1080 is only accounting for 1.4% of users, so I doubt the 1080Ti is even at 10% of that. Despite what most believe, high-end hardware doesn't sell in huge volumes. I thought I read somewhere that each lower price point tends to outsell the next higher price point about 10 to 1. So the 1080 outsells the 1080Ti about 10 to 1, and the 1070 outsells the 1080 by about 10 to 1, and the 1060 outsells the 1070 by 10 to 10, etc.
There are plenty of Mercedes S-class owners, but you don't bump into one on every parking.
It's actually a surprise that 1080 is on this list. 1080ti is way to expensive to get ~1.5% share.As for "worth nothing" - I disagree.
But you are generally right that Steam is not very representative for the whole population. Of course it will be dominated by people with better gear (and possibly gaming a lot more than average).
Just the fact that 1060 is on the top spot and IGP is 20th shows this is the case.
Nah, I disagree with you. To be fair if we could have stats from Riot Launcher users, the percentage of players using low end hardware would be even bigger. LoL is the most played PC game and it runs on a 5 year old Laptop with a HD5000 IGP, and with ease.
Also guys, don´t forget GTX1060 is now the same GPU on both desktop and mobile. So, previously you would have half of its percentage on the Desktop GTX 1060 and the remaining on a "GTX 1060m", 2 different gpus on the stats. Since pascal put the same chips on the laptops, it all counts as one gpu.
If you look at top 20 most used GPUs you find Intel HD5500, GT630, 940m, gtx650, gtx950m, gtx750, gt720m, gt730, gtx950. These chips are really really low-end, and that explains it all.
AMD CPU's have been selling like hot cakes but are not getting used for gaming obviously or the results would be different I would imagine since sales have gone up like 25%
AMD GPU's well there sold out everywhere! and again not for gaming as we all know and people are having a hard time getting a AMD card for gaming so again the results dont reflect that.
OS well again it shows what? how many people actually use or have steam installed which is like less then 30% of all users? and W7 is still the most used OS over W10, again these results dont reflect that.
In the gaming world yep cool thats great, in the none gaming world its the complete opposite.
BTW: it's almost certain that AMD CPU market share among gamers is much higher than among PC owners as a whole.At this point there really is no point in buying an AMD GPU for gaming (maybe other than being very used to FreeSync), so again: drop is not surprising.
Just look how many AMD GPUs on this list are from 2012-2013 (HD7000-8000).
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The oldest GPU in NVIDIA's top10 is a 750Ti from 2014.
The oldest GPU in their top20 is GTX660 - still younger than HD7800.This is irrelevant. Putting mining aside, GPUs are made mostly for gaming, so Steam users can be considered fairly representative in this statistic. This is not true for OSes, obviously.
According to StatCounter, current W7's usage share is around 39%, W10 is fairly close at 31%. But you have to take into account that W7 still dominates in corporate environments.
It's not surprising that W10 is already dominant among Steam users.
Beside the desktop, I've also installed Steam on my cheap 2-in-1 (Intel Atom) and I'm pretty sure I've also submitted it's data to Steam. I doubt I've every played anything Steam-operated on it.