Steam Hardware & Software Survey: January 2026

Steam conducts a monthly survey to collect data about what kinds of computer hardware and software our customers are using. Participation in the survey is optional, and anonymous. The information gathered is incredibly helpful to us as we make decisions about what kinds of technology investments to make and products to offer.

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January 2026 (click line item to see more detail)

ITEM

MOST POPULAR

PERCENTAGE

CHANGE

OS Version

Windows 11 64 bit

66.71%

+0.11%

Windows

94.62%

+0.39%

Windows 11 64 bit

66.71%

+0.11%

Windows 10 64 bit

27.79%

+0.28%

Windows 7 64 bit

0.08%

0.00%

OSX

2.01%

-0.17%

MacOS 26.2.0 64 bit

0.56%

+0.39%

MacOS 26.1.0 64 bit

0.28%

-0.37%

MacOS 15.6.1 64 bit

0.23%

-0.12%

MacOS 15.7.3 64 bit

0.14%

+0.14%

MacOS 15.5.0 64 bit

0.10%

-0.02%

MacOS 15.6.0 64 bit

0.07%

-0.03%

MacOS 26.0.1 64 bit

0.05%

-0.02%

Linux

3.38%

-0.20%

"Arch Linux" 64 bit

0.31%

-0.03%

Linux Mint 22.2 64 bit

0.22%

-0.06%

Ubuntu Core 24 64 bit

0.13%

+0.01%

Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS 64 bit

0.13%

-0.01%

Linux Mint 22.3 64 bit

0.08%

+0.08%

"Fedora Linux 43 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition)" 64 bit

0.07%

0.00%

"EndeavourOS Linux" 64 bit

0.06%

-0.02%

"Nobara Linux 43 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition)" 64 bit

0.06%

+0.06%

Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie) 64 bit

0.06%

0.00%

"Manjaro Linux" 64 bit

0.06%

0.00%

Ubuntu 25.10 64 bit

0.05%

+0.05%

System RAM

16 GB

40.24%

-0.53%

Less than 4 GB

0.02%

0.00%

4 GB

1.52%

-0.07%

8 GB

7.78%

-0.44%

12 GB

2.46%

-0.17%

16 GB

40.24%

-0.53%

24 GB

1.83%

-0.07%

28 GB

0.52%

-0.04%

32 GB

38.02%

+1.45%

48 GB

1.19%

-0.01%

60 GB

0.92%

+0.04%

64 GB

4.26%

-0.08%

More than 64 GB

0.61%

-0.03%

Other

0.63%

-0.05%

Intel CPU Speeds

2.3 Ghz to 2.69 Ghz

20.89%

+0.71%

Unspecified

0.01%

0.00%

Below 1.4 Ghz

0.74%

-0.04%

1.4 Ghz to 1.49 Ghz

0.15%

-0.01%

1.5 Ghz to 1.69 Ghz

0.19%

-0.01%

1.7 Ghz to 1.99 Ghz

1.04%

-0.05%

2.0 Ghz to 2.29 Ghz

3.19%

+0.07%

2.3 Ghz to 2.69 Ghz

20.89%

+0.71%

2.7 Ghz to 2.99 Ghz

8.68%

-0.08%

3.0 Ghz to 3.29 Ghz

4.97%

-0.04%

3.3 Ghz to 3.69 Ghz

12.56%

-0.09%

3.7 Ghz and above

2.59%

-0.07%

Physical CPUs

6 cpus

28.45%

+0.17%

1 cpu

0.02%

0.00%

2 cpus

3.16%

-0.19%

3 cpus

0.11%

0.00%

4 cpus

13.43%

-0.77%

5 cpus

0.14%

-0.01%

6 cpus

28.45%

+0.17%

7 cpus

0.01%

0.00%

8 cpus

26.67%

-0.10%

9 cpus

0.00%

10 cpus

7.63%

+0.67%

11 cpus

0.04%

-0.01%

12 cpus

5.25%

-0.09%

13 cpus

0.00%

14 cpus

4.91%

+0.07%

15 cpus

0.00%

16 cpus

5.43%

+0.08%

17 cpus

0.00%

18 cpus

0.05%

0.00%

19 cpus

0.00%

20 cpus

2.00%

+0.13%

21 cpus

0.00%

22 cpus

0.00%

23 cpus

0.00%

24 cpus

2.67%

+0.04%

26 cpus

0.00%

27 cpus

0.00%

28 cpus

0.01%

0.00%

30 cpus

0.00%

32 cpus

0.01%

0.00%

36 cpus

0.00%

40 cpus

0.00%

44 cpus

0.00%

48 cpus

0.00%

52 cpus

0.00%

56 cpus

0.00%

64 cpus

0.00%

72 cpus

0.00%

80 cpus

0.00%

96 cpus

0.00%

112 cpus

0.00%

120 cpus

0.00%

128 cpus

0.00%

192 cpus

0.00%

Video Card Description

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

4.16%

+0.46%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER

0.29%

-0.02%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050

0.45%

0.00%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

0.37%

+0.01%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop GPU

0.24%

-0.01%

AMD Radeon 780M Graphics

0.32%

-0.01%

Intel UHD Graphics 620

0.45%

-0.04%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

0.19%

-0.01%

1.78%

-0.15%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

2.38%

+0.03%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti

2.61%

+0.09%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

2.02%

+0.06%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU

3.79%

-0.05%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

2.37%

+0.68%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

2.72%

+0.44%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

0.61%

-0.03%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

1.61%

+0.02%

Intel(R) Arc(TM) Graphics

0.26%

0.00%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

2.88%

-0.03%

Intel(R) UHD Graphics

1.74%

-0.07%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti

1.50%

+0.24%

AMD Radeon RX 6800

0.20%

-0.02%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

1.44%

-0.06%

Intel HD Graphics 4600

0.17%

-0.02%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti

1.43%

+0.23%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

4.11%

+0.04%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU

1.95%

-0.11%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti

0.40%

-0.02%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

2.19%

-0.01%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Laptop GPU

0.53%

+0.02%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

1.19%

+0.12%

AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT

0.33%

-0.01%

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

1.05%

+0.12%

AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT

0.32%

-0.02%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

1.27%

-0.08%

AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT

0.24%

-0.01%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

0.98%

-0.01%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

0.22%

-0.02%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

1.02%

0.00%

Intel HD Graphics 520

0.22%

-0.01%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

1.84%

-0.07%

AMD Radeon RX 550

0.21%

-0.01%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GPU

0.85%

+0.04%

AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics

0.35%

-0.02%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060

1.68%

-0.06%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop GPU

0.19%

-0.01%

AMD Radeon RX 6600

0.84%

-0.02%

Intel UHD Graphics 630

0.28%

-0.02%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU

1.47%

+0.01%

AMD Radeon Vega 3 Graphics

0.19%

-0.02%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER

0.79%

-0.02%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

0.41%

-0.02%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650

2.63%

-0.16%

AMD Radeon RX 570

0.38%

-0.01%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

0.76%

-0.04%

AMD Radeon Graphics

1.85%

-0.14%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER

0.77%

-0.03%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

0.35%

-0.01%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

1.50%

-0.07%

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

0.57%

-0.03%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

0.68%

-0.01%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU

0.47%

-0.03%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER

0.78%

+0.01%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

0.50%

-0.02%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU

0.66%

-0.03%

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

0.27%

-0.02%

Intel Iris Xe Graphics

1.71%

-0.09%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

0.29%

-0.01%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

0.69%

-0.05%

AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

0.24%

-0.02%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU

0.99%

-0.01%

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

0.23%

-0.02%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

0.58%

-0.04%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU

0.38%

-0.04%

AMD Radeon RX 580

0.58%

-0.03%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

0.22%

-0.02%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

0.67%

-0.03%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

0.25%

-0.02%

AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

0.57%

-0.01%

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

0.19%

0.00%

AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics

2.15%

-0.06%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti

0.19%

0.00%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

0.95%

-0.05%

Intel HD Graphics 620

0.21%

-0.01%

NVIDIA Graphics Device

1.21%

+0.12%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

0.25%

-0.01%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

0.50%

-0.03%

AMD Raphael

0.16%

0.00%

AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT

0.59%

+0.08%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Laptop GPU

0.27%

+0.03%

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

0.48%

-0.03%

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

0.17%

-0.01%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

0.45%

-0.03%

AMD Radeon (TM) Graphics

0.38%

-0.02%

AMD AMD Custom GPU 0405

0.41%

-0.07%

NVIDIA GeForce GT 730

0.16%

-0.01%

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

0.57%

-0.03%

Intel(R) Graphics

0.28%

0.00%

AMD Radeon Graphics (RADV VANGOGH)

0.40%

-0.05%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

4.16%

+0.46%

Other

9.33%

-0.23%

VRAM

8 GB

29.57%

-3.11%

512 MB

4.27%

-3.50%

1 GB

3.46%

+0.19%

2 GB

5.37%

+0.64%

3 GB

1.34%

+0.48%

4 GB

6.71%

+0.80%

6 GB

9.26%

-0.74%

8 GB

29.57%

-3.11%

10 GB

2.11%

-0.27%

11 GB

1.20%

+0.09%

12 GB

15.07%

-4.01%

16 GB

14.55%

+5.85%

20 GB

0.64%

+0.64%

24 GB

3.85%

+1.56%

32 GB

0.87%

+0.25%

Other

1.72%

+1.12%

Primary Display Resolution

1920 x 1080

52.59%

+0.01%

800 x 1280

0.51%

-0.11%

1280 x 720

0.21%

-0.02%

1280 x 1024

0.22%

-0.01%

1280 x 800

0.36%

-0.01%

1360 x 768

0.44%

-0.03%

1366 x 768

2.37%

-0.16%

1440 x 900

0.79%

-0.05%

1470 x 956

0.39%

-0.01%

1512 x 982

0.28%

-0.03%

1600 x 900

0.70%

-0.04%

1680 x 1050

0.44%

-0.03%

1920 x 1200

2.18%

-0.04%

1920 x 1080

52.59%

+0.01%

2560 x 1440

21.32%

+0.73%

2560 x 1600

4.81%

-0.02%

2560 x 1080

0.75%

-0.04%

2880 x 1800

0.45%

-0.03%

3440 x 1440

3.10%

-0.02%

3840 x 2160

4.95%

+0.02%

5120 x 1440

0.40%

-0.02%

Other

2.72%

-0.09%

Multi-Monitor Desktop Resolution

3840 x 1080

50.14%

0.00%

1920 x 2160

1.58%

+0.02%

2560 x 2520

1.08%

0.00%

3000 x 1920

5.46%

+0.16%

3200 x 1080

1.68%

-0.02%

3280 x 1080

1.02%

-0.06%

3286 x 1080

2.12%

-0.10%

3360 x 1080

1.08%

-0.06%

3440 x 2520

0.64%

0.00%

3440 x 2880

0.42%

0.00%

3520 x 1080

1.42%

-0.06%

3600 x 1080

0.94%

-0.02%

3640 x 1920

4.38%

+0.26%

3840 x 1080

50.14%

0.00%

3840 x 1081

1.08%

-0.02%

3840 x 1082

0.62%

0.00%

3840 x 1083

0.92%

-0.02%

3840 x 1084

0.72%

+0.02%

3840 x 1085

0.60%

-0.04%

3840 x 1086

0.56%

0.00%

3840 x 1200

1.74%

0.00%

3840 x 2160

0.98%

-0.04%

4000 x 2560

1.66%

+0.06%

4480 x 1080

1.30%

-0.08%

4480 x 1440

27.14%

+0.34%

4480 x 1445

0.46%

+0.02%

4480 x 1600

1.18%

+0.04%

4520 x 1920

0.92%

+0.04%

4880 x 2560

0.50%

-0.02%

4920 x 1920

0.80%

0.00%

4920 x 2160

0.60%

0.00%

5120 x 1440

10.28%

+0.08%

5120 x 1600

0.84%

+0.04%

5120 x 2880

0.58%

-0.06%

5280 x 2560

0.52%

+0.04%

5360 x 1440

3.42%

+0.06%

5560 x 1920

0.60%

-0.04%

5760 x 1080

2.58%

-0.08%

5760 x 2160

5.02%

+0.06%

6000 x 1440

1.54%

+0.06%

6400 x 1440

1.74%

0.00%

6400 x 2160

3.46%

+0.02%

7040 x 1440

0.62%

-0.04%

7280 x 2160

0.48%

0.00%

7680 x 1440

0.80%

-0.02%

7680 x 2160

2.72%

+0.04%

Other

51.06%

-0.50%

Language

English

37.01%

-2.21%

Simplified Chinese

23.86%

+0.90%

Norwegian

0.12%

-0.01%

Bulgarian

0.05%

0.00%

Vietnamese

0.20%

+0.02%

Romanian

0.14%

0.00%

Portuguese - Portugal

0.36%

-0.03%

Dutch

0.26%

-0.02%

French

2.42%

-0.10%

Korean

2.40%

+1.07%

German

2.99%

-0.12%

Japanese

2.86%

+0.34%

Portuguese-Brazil

3.92%

-0.34%

Spanish - Spain

4.22%

-0.40%

Russian

10.12%

+0.99%

Czech

0.58%

-0.03%

Polish

1.68%

-0.10%

Hungarian

0.39%

-0.02%

Traditional Chinese

1.33%

+0.04%

Swedish

0.26%

-0.03%

Turkish

1.29%

+0.04%

Danish

0.22%

-0.02%

Thai

0.91%

+0.10%

Finnish

0.16%

0.00%

Ukrainian

0.71%

0.00%

Indonesian

0.14%

+0.01%

Spanish - Latin America

0.68%

-0.07%

Greek

0.06%

-0.01%

Italian

0.64%

-0.03%

Arabic

0.00%

English

37.01%

-2.21%

Free Hard Drive Space

100 GB to 249 GB

22.59%

+0.19%

Unspecified

0.00%

Less than 10 GB

0.84%

-0.07%

10 GB to 99 GB

15.07%

-0.10%

100 GB to 249 GB

22.59%

+0.19%

250 GB to 499 GB

22.46%

-0.08%

500 GB to 749 GB

11.26%

-0.04%

750 GB to 999 GB

9.24%

-0.45%

1 TB to 2 TB

10.24%

+0.08%

2 TB to 3 TB

2.53%

+0.21%

3 TB to 4 TB

1.92%

+0.11%

Above 4 TB

3.84%

+0.14%

Total Hard Drive Space

Above 1 TB

52.33%

+1.81%

Unspecified

0.05%

-0.60%

Less than 10 GB

0.00%

10 GB to 99 GB

0.20%

-0.02%

100 GB to 249 GB

5.40%

-0.24%

250 GB to 499 GB

16.90%

-0.62%

500 GB to 749 GB

2.42%

-0.02%

750 GB to 999 GB

22.70%

-0.31%

Above 1 TB

52.33%

+1.81%

VR Headsets

Meta Quest 3

28.17%

+0.36%

Meta Quest 3

28.17%

+0.36%

Oculus Quest 2

23.77%

-0.92%

Meta Quest 3S

12.29%

+2.37%

Valve Index HMD

11.49%

-0.90%

Oculus Rift S

4.16%

-0.10%

Pico 4

4.04%

-0.07%

HTC Vive

2.51%

-0.23%

Sony PS VR2

2.21%

+0.20%

Windows Mixed Reality

2.14%

-0.15%

Oculus Rift

1.99%

-0.12%

Meta Quest Pro

1.24%

-0.08%

Bigscreen Beyond

0.89%

+0.11%

HTC Vive Pro

0.71%

-0.07%

HTC Vive Pro 2

0.64%

-0.01%

Pimax HMD

0.59%

+0.02%

Oculus Quest

0.56%

-0.10%

Pico Neo 3

0.55%

-0.07%

iVRy

0.34%

-0.01%

HTC VIVE XR Elite

0.25%

-0.09%

HTC Vive Focus Vision

0.22%

-0.02%

Riftcat Vridge

0.14%

-0.04%

HTC Vive Cosmos

0.13%

-0.05%

Varjo Aero

0.06%

+0.01%

Sony PlayStation VR

0.04%

+0.01%

Pico Neo 2

0.02%

+0.00%

Oculus Rift DK2

0.01%

-0.00%

Other

0.81%

-0.04%

Steam users with VR Headsets

1.77%

-0.15%

Other Settings

LAHF / SAHF

98.49%

-0.10%

AVX512VNNI

21.67%

+0.50%

SHA

77.42%

+1.01%

FMA

95.29%

+0.32%

SSE2

98.49%

-0.10%

NTFS

94.52%

+0.38%

BMI2

95.00%

+0.34%

AVX

97.22%

+0.26%

LAHF / SAHF

98.49%

-0.10%

SSE4.2

98.33%

-0.09%

SSE4a

43.19%

-0.22%

SSE4.1

98.38%

-0.09%

SSSE3

98.41%

-0.10%

SSE3

98.49%

-0.10%

AES

97.55%

-0.05%

AVX2

95.11%

+0.30%

CMPXCHG16B

98.49%

-0.10%

AVX512F

21.64%

+0.49%

PrefetchW

0.00%

AVX512PF

0.00%

BMI1

95.33%

+0.33%

AVX512ER

0.00%

F16C

96.45%

+0.31%

AVX512CD

21.64%

+0.49%

HyperThreading

88.61%

+0.13%

FCMOV

9.38%

-78.08%

Steam Hardware & Software Survey: January 2026

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