Hardware survey on Steam shows the most popular processors and graphics cards among gamers – What do you play with?

Every month, a survey on the hardware used is conducted on the gaming platform Steam. MeinMMO shows you the results from July 2022.

Steam is one of the largest gaming platforms in the world and is likely familiar to most PC gamers – it’s almost like a home for them. Recently, a survey on MeinMMO showed that many readers have hundreds of games stored in their Steam library.

Steam regularly conducts a survey that provides insight into the hardware of Steam gamers. Now the results for July 2022 are known, and we are listing how the technology distribution on the platform looks – in terms of graphics cards, processor power, and number of cores.

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Steam: Graphics Cards – NVIDIA Dominates

The graphics cards used by Steam users show the usual picture – NVIDIA dominates the market, with over 76% market share on Steam.

At the top remains the GTX 1060 from 2016/2017. The mid-range card offers stable performance at FullHD resolution and has over 7% usage share.

The first graphics card from competitor AMD ranks a distant 16th with the Radeon RX 580.

Open the spoiler box if you want to see all the cards that have a share of over 1%:

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Steam: Processors – AMD on the Rise

In processor technology, Intel remains the leader. Here, however, AMD plays a larger role than in the graphics card market and is on the rise – compared to June, the share has increased by 2.22%:

• Intel CPUs: 66.26 %
• AMD CPUs: 33.73 %

The statistics on Steam show no specific models for processors, but are sorted by manufacturer, operating system, and speed. We again list the technology that comes in at least 1% and limit ourselves to the Windows figures.

You can find the shares of Intel technology in Windows PCs in the first spoiler box:

In the second spoiler box, you will find the speed of AMD processors on Windows.

Regardless of the manufacturer, Steam lists the number of processor cores used. You will find this distribution in the third spoiler box:

If you want to study the results of the July survey a bit deeper, you can find them on a website from Steam (via steam.com).

What devices are you using? Leave us a comment with your specifications. Are you above average, do you have an exotic case? Or do you use tried and tested standard technology?

I am using the following technology:

• Graphics Card: AMD RX 5700 XT
• Processor: AMD 3.7 GHz and more
• Cores: 8

If you are looking for a comparison with general explanations about what NVIDIA and AMD distinguish in their graphics cards, you will find a suitable article here: How important is it to buy a graphics card from AMD or NVIDIA?