steam survey | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Mon, 10 Jul 2017 21:05:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png steam survey | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 Steam Survey shows large jumps in 4-core processors and 8GB RAM https://www.kitguru.net/desktop-pc/gaming-rig/damien-cox/steam-survey-shows-large-jumps-in-4-core-processors-and-8gb-ram/ https://www.kitguru.net/desktop-pc/gaming-rig/damien-cox/steam-survey-shows-large-jumps-in-4-core-processors-and-8gb-ram/#comments Mon, 10 Jul 2017 21:05:00 +0000 https://www.kitguru.net/?p=340328 The Steam hardware and software survey for June has been published by Valve, giving us a look into what gamers are currently running. Many users seem to have made the jump to 4-core processors and although Windows 10 has seen a slight increase, Windows 7 is still operating on over a third of the user …

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The Steam hardware and software survey for June has been published by Valve, giving us a look into what gamers are currently running. Many users seem to have made the jump to 4-core processors and although Windows 10 has seen a slight increase, Windows 7 is still operating on over a third of the user base.

In the GPU category, nearly two thirds of the market belong to Nvidia, with a large increase in DirectX 12 users. This isn’t a surprise since Nvidia has been pushing DirextX 12, even enabling support on older cards. AMD currently hold 20 percent of the market, while integrated graphics from Intel falls slightly lower at 15.54 percent.

The most popular card seems to be the GeForce GTX 1060, with 6.29 percent of users. Intel HD Graphics 5500 makes an appearance at number 20, with 1.22 percent of users and AMD falls just shorter with its AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series at 21st place, taking 1.21 percent of the market. It is worth noting that the gap will likely get much closer with the upcoming release of AMD’s Vega line-up.

The CPU category sees many users making the jump to 4-core processors, now dominating over half of the market. AMD are currently under the weight of Intel at a 19.01 percent share in comparison to Intel’s 80.99. This is a drop from AMD’s 22 percent in February, but this gap is expected to close once again with its upcoming Ryzen Pro line of CPUs and Threadripper tearing up the news.

53 percent of Steam users are now on Windows 10, with a heavy favour to the 64-bit version which is an increase from 50.82 in February, but Windows 7 still holds strong with more than a third of the user base.

Another interesting note is the large 2.77 percent jump to 8GB RAM, taking up 38.90 percent of users. 12GB and higher also sees a jump, claiming 23.06 percent of the user base, showing that gamers are readying their rigs for the increase in how demanding newer games can be.

KitGuru Says: What system are you running? Do you plan to upgrade in the coming months?

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Steam show 8% of users are running Macintosh https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/mobile/apple/zardon/steam-show-8-of-users-are-running-macintosh/ https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/mobile/apple/zardon/steam-show-8-of-users-are-running-macintosh/#comments Mon, 07 Jun 2010 09:28:44 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=4433 Valve made the bold move a short while ago of releasing Steam on Macintosh OSX. Many doubters thought this was a waste of time, after all many have said that OSX is not a particularly good gaming platform and supporting it is too costly. It appears that this might be preemptive thinking as according to …

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Valve made the bold move a short while ago of releasing Steam on Macintosh OSX. Many doubters thought this was a waste of time, after all many have said that OSX is not a particularly good gaming platform and supporting it is too costly.

It appears that this might be preemptive thinking as according to Steams own survey over 8 percent of the total user base in the first month were using OSX. More than the 64bit Versions of Windows XP and Vista combined. Wozzers.

May has been the first month of OSX client availability and Apple has made a significant dent into Windows market share. 32 bit Windows XP however maintains around 33percent of the market share with 64bit Windows 7 next in line at around 25percent.

This is not only a good sign to Apple that they need to put more effort into helping game companies develop for the platform, but it shows that there is potentially a massive market ready to buy the leading titles.

KitGuru says: In 2011 we feel that Apple might grab a decent chunk of the gaming market, if developers take a chance and release AAA titles on OSX.

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