Steam Hardware and Software Survey results have been announced. According to April data, the players’ preferences for graphics cards and processors were NVIDIA and Intel. Despite its attacks in recent years, AMD cannot approach its competitors.
The world’s largest online gaming platform , Steam , determined which of the most popular processor and graphics card brands were with the data it collected from the players. Statistics based on April data reveal that NVIDIA continues to be at the top of the graphics card category and Intel continues to be on the processor front. Let’s take a look at the statistics shared by Steam together.
According to the data collected from the players , 75.85% of Steam users use graphics cards released by NVIDIA. In this context, the most popular graphics card model is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 . 6.94 percent of all Steam users use this graphics card. Despite NVIDIA, the rate of players using graphics cards produced by AMD remained at the level of 15.02 percent.
Despite its competitive nature, AMD cannot approach Intel
According to the data shared by Steam, 68.21 percent of the players prefer processors released by Intel . The rate of AMD users was recorded as 31.79 percent. Although AMD has made remarkable strides in recent years and cornered Intel, it seems that it has not been fully accepted by the players. We can see that this situation will change in the coming years. According to Steam, the processor speed range most preferred by the players is the 2.3 Ghz-2.69 Ghz range.
Windows 11 started to replace Windows 10
When we look at the operating system preferences of the players, we see that Windows is way ahead, which is not surprising . However, the point that draws attention here is Windows 11. The operating system, which was released recently, seems to gradually replace Windows 10. As we come to the end of 2022, it looks like we can see the popularity of Windows 11 and Windows 10 sync.
According to Steam, the most preferred hardware and software by players
The most popular graphics cards are:
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (Laptop)
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060