February Steam Hardware And Software Survey Revealed, NVIDIA Still Top Choice For Users
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 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,
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