Every month, Valve runs a voluntary survey to gather information about the PC configurations that its users use to access Steam. This data helps developers optimize their games to reach more gamers and make wise investments in various technologies. Steam hardware and software surveys are also a great source of information about different versions of Windows and their success among gamers.
Note: Survey participation is optional, so data does not represent 100% of Steam users. Also, the official Steam page compares the latest data to October 2022, not November 2022, hence the difference in delta between this article and the official report.
Survey results show that Windows 11 continues to steal users away from Windows 10. Windows 11 adoption reached 28.42 percent in December 2022, up 0.44 points from November 2022, according to Valve.
Windows 10 64-bit, the most dominant generation of operating systems on Steam, lost just 0.18 points in December 2022 — the eight-year-old OS currently has a 65.42 percent market share. Windows 7 64-bit experienced a similar drawback. Valve says the third most popular version of Windows on Steam currently has 1.66% (-0.22 points).
- Windows 10 64-bit: 65.42% (-0.18)
- Windows 11: 28.42% (+0.44)
- Windows 7 64-bit: 1.66% (-0.22)
- Windows 8 64-bit: 0.41%
- Windows 7 32-bit: 0.11%
Overall, Microsoft’s operating system family holds the market firmly with 96.15% market share (+0.04). Apple is second with 2.48% (+0.03) and Linux is third with 1.38% (-0.06).
As far as hardware preferences are concerned, there are no significant changes compared to last month. Here are the most popular CPU, GPU, memory, and other hardware picks:
| Steam Hardware Survey – October 2022 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Processors | Intel | AMD | Microsoft |
| 67.81% (+0.71) | 32.16% (-0.71) | 0.03% | |
| Body cover | 6 cover | 4 cover | 8 Cor |
| 33.03% (+0.43) | 29.8% (-0.26) | 19.20% (-0.56) | |
| memory | 16 GB | 8 GB | 32 GB |
| 51.85% ( ) | 21.32% (+0.08) | 13.93% (+0.55) | |
| Graphics cards | Nvidia | AMD | Intel |
| 75.69% | 15.15% | 8.94% | |
| Models of graphics cards | NVIDIA GTX 1650 | NVIDIA GTX 1060 | NVIDIA RTX 2060 |
| 5.99% (-0.06) | 5.46% (-0.12) | 4.50% (+0.02) | |
| Graphics cards memory | 8 GB | 6 GB | 4 GB |
| 26.95% (+0.73) | 19.99% (+0.02) | 14.97% (+0.66) | |
| Display resolution | 1920 x 1080 | 2560 x 1440 | 1366 x 768 |
| 64.60% (-0.46) | 11.80% (+0.46) | 5.88% (+0.18) | |
You can find more information here. On the official Steam Hardware and Software Survey page.
