Steam trends still indicate a large dominance of Nvidia graphics cards among gamers while Windows 10 remains the most used OS on the platform.
Like every month, Steam reveals the results of its hardware and software survey. The figures come from the most used PC gaming platform on the market, they allow you to take the pulse of current trends among gamers.
Nvidia dominates, Windows 10 still leader
We are no longer surprised by this, but the figure remains interesting to mention: Nvidia is used by more than 78% of the players surveyed in this survey while AMD graphics cards account for nearly 15%. The most used GPU remains the GeForce RTX 3060 (improved this month) while the first AMD card mentioned is the Radeon RX 580, a 7 year old chip.
We also note that Windows 10 remains favored by gamers with more than 54% of gamers using it, compared to 41.6% for Windows, which fell slightly this month. To see if these figures will change with the important 24H2 update planned for next fall, in particular if it brings improvements in terms of performance beyond the AI functionalities.
Full HD still favored by gamers
If the 16 GB of RAM is still used by nearly 48% of gamers, the 32 GB increased by more than 2% this month while more and more big budget games require such a quantity.
Finally, the 1080p (1920 x 1080) definition remains predominantly used by players on Steam (more than 58%) even if 1440p (2560 x 1440p) increases to almost 20%. The 2160p definition (PC equivalent of 4K in 3840 x 2160) remains far behind at 3.44%.
All these figures show us the latest standards and technologies such as 4K or ray tracing are still used by a small proportion of PC gamers. The fault is galloping inflation in the price of components which has slowed down hardware updates among players since COVID.