Steam Hardware & Software Survey

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March 2026 (click line item to see more detail)

OS Version

Windows 11 64 bit 

66.85% 

+10.57% 


Windows 11 64 bit

66.85%

+10.57%

Windows 10 64 bit

25.36%

-14.89%

Windows 7 64 bit

0.08%

+0.03%


MacOS 26.3.0 64 bit

0.55%

+0.40%

MacOS 26.3.1 64 bit

0.49%

+0.49%

MacOS 26.2.0 64 bit

0.23%

-0.21%

MacOS 15.7.4 64 bit

0.14%

+0.14%

MacOS 15.7.3 64 bit

0.10%

0.00%

MacOS 15.6.1 64 bit

0.10%

+0.04%

MacOS 26.4.0 64 bit

0.07%

+0.07%

MacOS 15.5.0 64 bit

0.06%

+0.06%

MacOS 26.1.0 64 bit

0.05%

+0.05%

MacOS 12.7.6 64 bit

0.05%

+0.05%


Arch Linux 64 bit

0.34%

+0.15%

Linux Mint 22.3 64 bit

0.27%

+0.13%

Ubuntu Core 24 64 bit

0.14%

+0.06%

Linux Mint 22.2 64 bit

0.07%

+0.02%

Ubuntu 25.10 64 bit

0.06%

+0.06%

Manjaro Linux 64 bit

0.06%

+0.06%

System RAM

16 GB 

40.97% 

+13.50% 


Less than 4 GB

0.02%

+0.01%

4 GB

1.58%

+0.69%

8 GB

8.15%

+3.46%

12 GB

2.58%

+1.08%

16 GB

40.97%

+13.50%

24 GB

1.98%

+0.42%

28 GB

0.55%

+0.55%

32 GB

36.62%

-20.31%

48 GB

1.14%

-0.83%

60 GB

0.93%

+0.26%

64 GB

4.21%

+0.96%

More than 64 GB

0.62%

+0.25%

Other

0.66%

-0.04%

Intel CPU Speeds

2.3 Ghz to 2.69 Ghz 

20.38% 

-1.14% 


Unspecified

0.01%

0.00%

Below 1.4 Ghz

0.81%

+0.36%

1.4 Ghz to 1.49 Ghz

0.16%

+0.07%

1.5 Ghz to 1.69 Ghz

0.20%

+0.08%

1.7 Ghz to 1.99 Ghz

1.10%

+0.47%

2.0 Ghz to 2.29 Ghz

3.02%

-2.21%

2.3 Ghz to 2.69 Ghz

20.38%

-1.14%

2.7 Ghz to 2.99 Ghz

8.58%

-1.06%

3.0 Ghz to 3.29 Ghz

5.00%

+1.72%

3.3 Ghz to 3.69 Ghz

12.01%

-1.12%

3.7 Ghz and above

2.65%

+0.71%

Physical CPUs

6 cpus 

27.77% 

-2.10% 


1 cpu

0.03%

+0.02%

2 cpus

3.24%

+1.37%

3 cpus

0.12%

+0.06%

4 cpus

13.59%

+5.37%

5 cpus

0.17%

+0.07%

6 cpus

27.77%

-2.10%

7 cpus

0.00%

0.00%

8 cpus

27.16%

-1.14%

9 cpus

0.00%

0.00%

10 cpus

7.35%

-4.18%

11 cpus

0.04%

+0.01%

12 cpus

5.30%

-0.14%

13 cpus

0.00%

0.00%

14 cpus

4.82%

-0.89%

15 cpus

0.01%

+0.01%

16 cpus

5.60%

+0.37%

17 cpus

0.00%

0.00%

18 cpus

0.06%

+0.03%

19 cpus

0.00%

0.00%

20 cpus

1.96%

+0.08%

22 cpus

0.00%

0.00%

23 cpus

0.00%

0.00%

24 cpus

2.74%

+1.05%

26 cpus

0.00%

0.00%

28 cpus

0.01%

0.00%

30 cpus

0.00%

0.00%

32 cpus

0.01%

0.00%

36 cpus

0.00%

0.00%

40 cpus

0.00%

0.00%

44 cpus

0.00%

0.00%

48 cpus

0.00%

0.00%

52 cpus

0.00%

0.00%

56 cpus

0.00%

0.00%

64 cpus

0.00%

0.00%

72 cpus

0.00%

0.00%

96 cpus

0.00%

0.00%

112 cpus

0.00%

0.00%

120 cpus

0.00%

0.00%

128 cpus

0.00%

0.00%

Video Card Description

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

 

3.92% 

-0.57% 


NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti

0.39%

+0.15%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER

0.28%

+0.10%

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

0.16%

+0.16%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

2.70%

-6.42%

AMD Radeon RX 550

0.23%

+0.23%

AMD Radeon RX 6800

0.20%

+0.20%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

1.80%

-2.65%

AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

0.24%

+0.24%

2.13%

+1.08%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti

2.36%

-3.07%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

2.28%

-4.23%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU

3.81%

+1.43%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

3.92%

-0.57%

AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT

0.33%

+0.12%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti

1.58%

-2.56%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop GPU

0.42%

+0.42%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

2.97%

+1.13%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

0.21%

+0.06%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

2.22%

-0.34%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti

0.18%

+0.18%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

1.51%

-1.59%

Intel HD Graphics 4600

0.18%

+0.18%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti

1.47%

+0.23%

NVIDIA GeForce GT 730

0.16%

+0.16%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

1.39%

+0.43%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050

0.45%

+0.17%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

1.27%

-0.34%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

0.33%

+0.12%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU

1.92%

+0.71%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU

0.45%

+0.17%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

2.10%

-0.76%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

0.60%

+0.24%

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

1.10%

+0.40%

Intel(R) UHD Graphics

1.19%

+0.13%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GPU

1.70%

+1.14%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU

0.39%

+0.15%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

1.23%

+0.44%

Intel HD Graphics 520

0.23%

+0.23%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

0.90%

+0.11%

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

0.18%

+0.18%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

0.95%

-0.07%

AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics

0.36%

+0.15%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU

1.54%

+0.62%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

0.24%

+0.07%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

1.79%

+0.10%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop GPU

0.18%

+0.18%

AMD Radeon RX 6600

0.82%

+0.31%

Intel UHD Graphics 630

0.30%

+0.13%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060

1.59%

+0.39%

AMD Radeon Vega 3 Graphics

0.20%

+0.20%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER

0.76%

+0.03%

AMD Radeon Graphics

1.93%

+0.83%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650

2.60%

+0.99%

AMD Radeon RX 570

0.36%

+0.14%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

0.74%

+0.28%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Laptop GPU

0.58%

+0.26%

Intel Iris Xe Graphics

1.86%

+0.83%

Intel Arc Graphics

0.30%

+0.30%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER

0.73%

+0.18%

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

0.55%

+0.20%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

1.46%

+0.11%

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

0.27%

+0.10%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU

0.65%

+0.25%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

0.48%

0.00%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

0.64%

-0.05%

AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT

0.32%

+0.13%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER

0.73%

+0.20%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

0.28%

+0.06%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

0.67%

+0.25%

Intel UHD Graphics 620

0.50%

+0.23%

AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT

0.68%

+0.26%

AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT

0.24%

+0.08%

AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

0.58%

+0.23%

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

0.23%

+0.23%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU

0.96%

+0.36%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

0.21%

+0.21%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

0.56%

+0.18%

AMD Raphael

0.19%

+0.19%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

0.93%

+0.34%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

0.25%

+0.25%

AMD Radeon RX 580

0.54%

+0.19%

Intel HD Graphics 620

0.22%

+0.22%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

0.65%

+0.11%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

0.18%

+0.18%

AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics

2.29%

+0.98%

Intel UHD Graphics

0.76%

+0.76%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

0.49%

+0.08%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Laptop GPU

0.29%

+0.11%

AMD Radeon Graphics (RADV VANGOGH)

0.47%

+0.23%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop GPU

0.24%

+0.24%

AMD AMD Custom GPU 0405

0.44%

+0.20%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop GPU

0.22%

+0.22%

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

0.48%

+0.19%

AMD Radeon (TM) Graphics

0.43%

+0.19%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

0.44%

+0.16%

Intel UHD Graphics 600

0.15%

+0.15%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

0.40%

+0.16%

AMD Radeon 780M Graphics

0.37%

+0.17%

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

0.58%

+0.23%

Intel(R) Graphics

0.35%

+0.17%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

0.40%

+0.16%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

3.71%

-3.52%

Other

9.49%

+1.50%

512 MB

2.86%

-0.02%

1 GB

2.54%

-0.38%

2 GB

4.88%

+0.01%

3 GB

1.36%

-0.04%

4 GB

6.29%

-0.13%

6 GB

6.79%

-0.80%

8 GB

27.52%

-1.85%

10 GB

1.91%

-0.01%

11 GB

0.93%

-0.01%

12 GB

13.70%

-1.52%

16 GB

21.53%

+3.27%

20 GB

1.19%

+0.24%

22 GB

0.70%

0.00%

24 GB

4.84%

+0.75%

32 GB

1.18%

+0.26%

Other

1.77%

+0.22%

Primary Display Resolution

1920 x 1080 

51.93% 

+6.89% 


800 x 1280

0.56%

+0.26%

1280 x 720

0.23%

+0.23%

1280 x 1024

0.21%

+0.21%

1280 x 800

0.40%

+0.19%

1360 x 768

0.46%

+0.20%

1366 x 768

2.49%

+1.07%

1440 x 900

0.83%

+0.37%

1470 x 956

0.48%

+0.26%

1512 x 982

0.34%

+0.34%

1600 x 900

0.71%

+0.28%

1680 x 1050

0.45%

+0.18%

1920 x 1080

51.93%

+6.89%

1920 x 1200

2.45%

+1.09%

2560 x 1440

20.70%

-17.94%

2560 x 1080

0.75%

+0.29%

2560 x 1600

5.17%

+2.08%

2880 x 1800

0.53%

+0.25%

3440 x 1440

3.15%

+1.23%

3840 x 2160

4.79%

+1.73%

5120 x 1440

0.43%

+0.18%

Other

2.95%

+0.63%

Multi-Monitor Desktop Resolution

3840 x 1080 

49.08% 

-0.06% 


1920 x 2160

1.60%

+0.02%

2560 x 2520

1.12%

0.00%

3000 x 1920

5.50%

-0.06%

3200 x 1080

1.60%

-0.06%

3280 x 1080

1.00%

0.00%

3286 x 1080

2.10%

-0.10%

3360 x 1080

1.08%

+0.02%

3440 x 2520

0.64%

0.00%

3440 x 2880

0.46%

+0.04%

3520 x 1080

1.38%

-0.02%

3600 x 1080

0.88%

-0.02%

3640 x 1920

4.34%

-0.06%

3840 x 1080

49.08%

-0.06%

3840 x 1081

1.06%

-0.02%

3840 x 1082

0.62%

+0.02%

3840 x 1083

0.94%

-0.02%

3840 x 1084

0.70%

-0.04%

3840 x 1085

0.64%

+0.04%

3840 x 1086

0.56%

+0.02%

3840 x 1200

1.84%

+0.04%

3840 x 2160

0.96%

+0.02%

4000 x 2560

1.70%

+0.02%

4480 x 1080

1.24%

-0.04%

4480 x 1440

27.14%

-0.50%

4480 x 1445

0.48%

0.00%

4480 x 1600

1.22%

+0.04%

4520 x 1920

0.90%

-0.02%

4880 x 2560

0.50%

-0.02%

4920 x 1920

0.80%

+0.02%

4920 x 2160

0.56%

-0.06%

5120 x 1440

10.34%

-0.12%

5120 x 1600

0.84%

+0.02%

5120 x 2880

0.68%

+0.08%

5280 x 2560

0.48%

-0.02%

5360 x 1440

3.34%

-0.08%

5560 x 1920

0.62%

0.00%

5760 x 1080

2.56%

-0.02%

5760 x 2160

4.78%

-0.14%

6000 x 1440

1.58%

+0.06%

6400 x 1440

1.78%

+0.06%

6400 x 2160

3.48%

-0.06%

7040 x 1440

0.66%

+0.02%

7280 x 2160

0.48%

-0.02%

7680 x 1440

0.88%

+0.08%

7680 x 2160

2.58%

-0.06%

Other

52.22%

+0.92%

Language

English 

39.09% 

+16.82% 


Simplified Chinese

22.75%

-31.85%

Norwegian

0.13%

+0.06%

Bulgarian

0.04%

+0.01%

Vietnamese

0.18%

+0.06%

Indonesian

0.14%

+0.05%

Hungarian

0.38%

+0.15%

Dutch

0.27%

+0.11%

Japanese

2.24%

+0.64%

Polish

1.82%

+0.78%

German

2.96%

+1.19%

French

2.46%

+1.02%

Portuguese-Brazil

4.42%

+2.05%

Spanish - Spain

4.81%

+2.23%

Russian

9.21%

+3.12%

Czech

0.58%

+0.24%

Korean

1.69%

+0.63%

Portuguese - Portugal

0.39%

+0.18%

Turkish

1.27%

+0.44%

Swedish

0.29%

+0.13%

Traditional Chinese

1.24%

+0.39%

Danish

0.24%

+0.10%

Spanish - Latin America

0.82%

+0.39%

Finnish

0.15%

+0.06%

Thai

0.79%

+0.26%

Romanian

0.13%

+0.05%

Ukrainian

0.74%

+0.31%

Greek

0.06%

+0.02%

Italian

0.66%

+0.28%

Arabic

0.00%

0.00%

English

39.09%

+16.82%

Free Hard Drive Space

100 GB to 249 GB 

22.98% 

+6.98% 


Unspecified

0.00%

0.00%

Less than 10 GB

0.89%

+0.38%

10 GB to 99 GB

15.48%

+5.95%

100 GB to 249 GB

22.98%

+6.98%

250 GB to 499 GB

22.77%

+6.00%

500 GB to 749 GB

11.30%

+2.05%

750 GB to 999 GB

9.11%

+1.69%

1 TB to 2 TB

9.96%

-1.54%

2 TB to 3 TB

2.44%

-2.81%

3 TB to 4 TB

1.74%

-2.55%

Above 4 TB

3.33%

-16.15%

Total Hard Drive Space

Above 1 TB 

50.11% 

-19.98% 


Unspecified

0.02%

-0.76%

Less than 10 GB

0.00%

0.00%

10 GB to 99 GB

0.22%

+0.10%

100 GB to 249 GB

5.83%

+2.60%

250 GB to 499 GB

17.79%

+7.53%

500 GB to 749 GB

2.41%

+0.89%

750 GB to 999 GB

23.61%

+9.61%

Above 1 TB

50.11%

-19.98%

VR Headsets

Meta Quest 3 

27.66% 

-0.89% 


Meta Quest 3

27.66%

-0.89%

Oculus Quest 2

22.74%

-0.41%

Valve Index HMD

12.92%

+1.63%

Meta Quest 3S

12.75%

-0.13%

Oculus Rift S

4.00%

+0.10%

Pico 4

3.33%

-0.72%

HTC Vive

2.67%

+0.37%

Windows Mixed Reality

2.16%

+0.13%

Sony PS VR2

2.13%

-0.02%

Oculus Rift

2.00%

+0.11%

Meta Quest Pro

1.47%

+0.07%

Bigscreen Beyond

1.26%

+0.26%

HTC Vive Pro 2

0.68%

-0.00%

HTC Vive Pro

0.67%

-0.05%

Oculus Quest

0.53%

-0.02%

Pimax HMD

0.51%

-0.07%

Pico Neo 3

0.40%

-0.21%

iVRy

0.32%

-0.07%

HTC Vive Focus Vision

0.26%

+0.05%

HTC VIVE XR Elite

0.22%

-0.04%

Riftcat Vridge

0.18%

+0.00%

HTC Vive Cosmos

0.17%

+0.03%

Varjo Aero

0.06%

+0.01%

Sony PlayStation VR

0.04%

+0.00%

Oculus Rift DK2

0.02%

-0.01%

Pico Neo 2

0.01%

+0.00%

Other

0.84%

-0.10%

Steam users with VR Headsets

1.59%

+0.54%

Other Settings

CMPXCHG16B 

98.09% 

-0.99% 


AVX512VNNI

21.91%

-7.71%

SHA

77.30%

-7.17%

FMA

95.02%

-2.20%

SSE2

98.09%

-0.99%

NTFS

93.72%

-2.99%

BMI2

94.73%

-2.32%

AVX

96.93%

-1.44%

LAHF / SAHF

98.08%

-0.99%

SSE4.2

97.93%

-1.05%

SSE4a

43.92%

+1.03%

SSE4.1

97.97%

-1.04%

SSSE3

98.01%

-1.02%

SSE3

98.09%

-0.99%

AES

97.14%

-1.38%

AVX2

94.84%

-2.27%

CMPXCHG16B

98.09%

-0.99%

AVX512F

21.89%

-7.51%

PrefetchW

0.00%

0.00%

AVX512PF

0.00%

0.00%

BMI1

95.06%

-2.19%

AVX512ER

0.00%

0.00%

F16C

96.18%

-1.74%

AVX512CD

21.89%

-7.51%

HyperThreading

88.17%

-3.45%

FCMOV

5.87%

+2.06%