Steam Hardware & Software Survey: September 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.

PC Video card usage by mfg

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DX10/11/12 Systems

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PC Processor usage by manufacturer

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Mac Hardware ownership

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September 2026 (click line item to see more detail)

ITEM

MOST POPULAR

PERCENTAGE

CHANGE

OS Version

Windows 11 64 bit

71.34%

+0.37%

Windows

95.03%

+1.08%

Windows 11 64 bit

71.34%

+0.37%

Windows 10 64 bit

23.61%

+0.71%

OSX

1.92%

-0.22%

MacOS 26.6.2 64 bit

0.69%

+0.57%

MacOS 27.0.0 64 bit

0.19%

+0.11%

MacOS 26.5.2 64 bit

0.17%

-0.49%

MacOS 26.5.1 64 bit

0.10%

-0.09%

Linux

3.05%

-0.85%

CachyOS 64 bit

0.55%

-0.05%

SteamOS Holo 64 bit

0.53%

-0.29%

Arch Linux 64 bit

0.33%

-0.01%

Linux Mint 22.3 64 bit

0.27%

-0.06%

Bazzite 64 bit

0.21%

-0.09%

Freedesktop SDK 25.08 (Flatpak runtime) 64 bit

0.14%

-0.07%

Ubuntu Core 24 64 bit

0.09%

-0.02%

Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS 64 bit

0.09%

+0.09%

Fedora Linux 44 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition) 64 bit

0.09%

-0.03%

Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS 64 bit

0.07%

-0.03%

EndeavourOS Linux 64 bit

0.06%

0.00%

Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie) 64 bit

0.05%

-0.03%

Nobara Linux 44 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition) 64 bit

0.05%

-0.01%

System RAM

32 GB

42.22%

+4.77%

Less than 4 GB

0.02%

0.00%

4 GB

1.15%

-0.23%

8 GB

6.47%

-0.99%

12 GB

2.12%

-0.29%

16 GB

37.82%

-3.38%

24 GB

2.56%

+0.34%

32 GB

42.22%

+4.77%

48 GB

1.46%

+0.26%

60 GB

0.92%

-0.05%

64 GB

3.71%

-0.26%

More than 64 GB

0.53%

-0.06%

Other

1.01%

+0.40%

Intel CPU Speeds

2.3 Ghz to 2.69 Ghz

19.48%

-0.50%

Unspecified

0.00%

Below 1.4 Ghz

0.65%

-0.09%

1.4 Ghz to 1.49 Ghz

0.12%

-0.02%

1.5 Ghz to 1.69 Ghz

0.15%

-0.03%

1.7 Ghz to 1.99 Ghz

0.87%

-0.12%

2.0 Ghz to 2.29 Ghz

2.98%

+0.10%

2.3 Ghz to 2.69 Ghz

19.48%

-0.50%

2.7 Ghz to 2.99 Ghz

7.92%

-0.41%

3.0 Ghz to 3.29 Ghz

4.57%

-0.51%

3.3 Ghz to 3.69 Ghz

11.96%

+0.25%

3.7 Ghz and above

2.48%

-0.19%

Physical CPUs

8 cpus

30.06%

+2.02%

1 cpu

0.02%

0.00%

2 cpus

2.45%

-0.44%

3 cpus

0.07%

-0.01%

4 cpus

10.79%

-1.67%

5 cpus

0.16%

-0.02%

6 cpus

27.23%

-0.20%

7 cpus

0.00%

-0.01%

8 cpus

30.06%

+2.02%

9 cpus

0.00%

10 cpus

8.19%

+0.68%

11 cpus

0.03%

-0.01%

12 cpus

4.78%

-0.31%

13 cpus

0.00%

14 cpus

5.23%

+0.34%

15 cpus

0.03%

0.00%

16 cpus

5.78%

-0.18%

17 cpus

0.00%

18 cpus

0.28%

+0.04%

19 cpus

0.00%

20 cpus

2.09%

-0.06%

21 cpus

0.00%

22 cpus

0.01%

0.00%

23 cpus

0.00%

24 cpus

2.78%

-0.16%

26 cpus

0.00%

28 cpus

0.01%

0.00%

30 cpus

0.00%

32 cpus

0.01%

0.00%

36 cpus

0.00%

38 cpus

0.00%

40 cpus

0.00%

44 cpus

0.00%

48 cpus

0.00%

50 cpus

0.00%

52 cpus

0.00%

56 cpus

0.00%

63 cpus

0.00%

64 cpus

0.00%

72 cpus

0.00%

80 cpus

0.00%

86 cpus

0.00%

96 cpus

0.00%

104 cpus

0.00%

128 cpus

0.00%

144 cpus

0.00%

176 cpus

0.00%

192 cpus

0.00%

Video Card Description

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

5.86%

+2.30%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650

2.10%

-0.27%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER

0.68%

-0.03%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

0.65%

-0.04%

AMD Radeon RX 7600

0.44%

-0.02%

AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT

0.73%

-0.02%

AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

0.50%

-0.05%

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

0.56%

-0.03%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

1.89%

+0.27%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti

1.79%

+0.06%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti

2.73%

+0.48%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU

3.35%

-0.28%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

3.54%

-0.22%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

3.72%

+0.30%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti

3.87%

+1.46%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER

0.69%

-0.02%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

2.02%

+0.32%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER

0.61%

-0.04%

Apple M2

1.74%

-0.17%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

0.49%

-0.03%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

1.66%

+0.25%

AMD Radeon RX 580

0.47%

-0.06%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GPU

2.33%

-0.17%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Laptop GPU

0.62%

-0.05%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

2.77%

-0.27%

AMD Radeon RX 6600

0.71%

-0.07%

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

1.35%

-0.02%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060

1.30%

-0.14%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

2.01%

-0.06%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

0.61%

+0.01%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

1.21%

-0.19%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

1.27%

-0.07%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

1.91%

-0.01%

Intel Iris Xe Graphics

1.50%

-0.20%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU

1.59%

-0.17%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU

0.54%

-0.06%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU

1.52%

-0.14%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU

0.83%

-0.08%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

0.85%

-0.03%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

0.60%

-0.04%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

1.00%

-0.12%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

0.53%

-0.07%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

0.85%

-0.03%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

0.76%

-0.08%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

1.49%

-0.10%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

0.40%

-0.04%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

0.38%

-0.03%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

0.20%

-0.01%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

0.46%

-0.06%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Laptop GPU

0.39%

-0.02%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop GPU

0.16%

-0.01%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop GPU

0.37%

-0.02%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

0.16%

-0.02%

AMD Radeon RX 6800

0.18%

-0.01%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

0.32%

-0.04%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

0.17%

-0.02%

AMD Radeon Graphics

1.43%

-0.36%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

0.34%

-0.04%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

4.20%

+1.22%

AMD Radeon Vega 3 Graphics

0.15%

-0.03%

Intel(R) Graphics

0.46%

-0.01%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU

0.32%

-0.03%

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

0.29%

-0.02%

AMD Radeon 610M

0.35%

+0.35%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti

0.31%

-0.03%

Intel HD Graphics 520

0.18%

-0.03%

AMD Radeon RX 570

0.29%

-0.04%

AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics

0.81%

-0.09%

Steam Deck GPU

0.28%

-0.15%

AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics

0.29%

-0.05%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

0.27%

-0.03%

AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT

0.27%

-0.03%

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

0.47%

-0.05%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

0.23%

-0.01%

Intel(R) UHD Graphics

1.01%

-0.13%

AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

0.20%

-0.02%

Intel Arc Graphics

0.24%

-0.03%

Intel UHD Graphics 620

0.40%

-0.06%

AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT

0.29%

-0.03%

AMD Radeon RX 9070

0.19%

0.00%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER

0.24%

-0.02%

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

0.18%

-0.03%

AMD AMD Custom GPU 0405

0.23%

-0.13%

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

0.16%

-0.01%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU

0.38%

-0.03%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

0.20%

-0.02%

AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT

0.22%

-0.01%

AMD Radeon RX 550

0.17%

-0.03%

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

0.22%

-0.02%

Intel HD Graphics 620

0.17%

-0.03%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

0.39%

-0.02%

Intel UHD Graphics

0.60%

-0.09%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

0.22%

0.00%

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

0.42%

-0.03%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop GPU

0.20%

-0.01%

AMD Radeon (TM) Graphics

0.40%

-0.04%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop GPU

0.61%

-0.04%

Intel UHD Graphics 630

0.24%

-0.04%

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

0.50%

-0.05%

AMD Radeon 780M Graphics

0.32%

-0.04%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050

0.41%

-0.05%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

5.86%

+2.30%

Other

8.82%

-0.58%

VRAM

16 GB

27.21%

+0.29%

512 MB

2.60%

-0.07%

1 GB

1.44%

-0.14%

2 GB

3.69%

-0.36%

3 GB

1.20%

-0.12%

4 GB

5.13%

-0.56%

6 GB

5.12%

-0.18%

8 GB

26.71%

+0.97%

10 GB

1.91%

-0.05%

11 GB

0.83%

0.00%

12 GB

13.06%

+0.07%

16 GB

27.21%

+0.29%

20 GB

1.39%

+0.02%

22 GB

1.04%

-0.08%

24 GB

5.50%

+0.09%

32 GB

1.41%

+0.07%

64 GB

0.50%

+0.50%

Other

1.26%

-0.45%

Primary Display Resolution

1920 x 1080

47.91%

-2.61%

800 x 1280

0.30%

-0.19%

1280 x 800

0.23%

-0.08%

1360 x 768

0.35%

-0.05%

1366 x 768

1.92%

-0.31%

1440 x 900

0.62%

-0.11%

1470 x 956

0.40%

-0.04%

1512 x 982

0.28%

-0.03%

1600 x 900

0.58%

-0.09%

1680 x 1050

0.36%

-0.04%

1920 x 1200

2.56%

-0.20%

1920 x 1080

47.91%

-2.61%

2560 x 1440

27.04%

+5.18%

2560 x 1600

5.22%

-0.49%

2560 x 1080

0.61%

-0.06%

2880 x 1800

0.47%

-0.05%

3440 x 1440

2.91%

-0.23%

3840 x 2160

4.79%

-0.19%

5120 x 1440

0.37%

-0.04%

Other

3.09%

-0.17%

Multi-Monitor Desktop Resolution

3840 x 1080

47.10%

-0.52%

1920 x 2160

1.52%

0.00%

2560 x 2520

1.18%

+0.04%

3000 x 1920

5.80%

+0.08%

3200 x 1080

1.36%

-0.14%

3280 x 1080

0.92%

-0.06%

3286 x 1080

2.06%

0.00%

3360 x 1080

0.96%

-0.06%

3440 x 2520

0.64%

0.00%

3440 x 2880

0.46%

0.00%

3520 x 1080

1.30%

-0.02%

3600 x 1080

0.74%

-0.10%

3640 x 1920

4.80%

+0.22%

3840 x 1080

47.10%

-0.52%

3840 x 1081

1.06%

+0.02%

3840 x 1082

0.60%

+0.02%

3840 x 1083

0.96%

+0.04%

3840 x 1084

0.70%

+0.02%

3840 x 1085

0.60%

-0.02%

3840 x 1086

0.54%

-0.02%

3840 x 1200

1.86%

-0.04%

3840 x 2160

0.92%

-0.06%

4000 x 2560

1.92%

+0.12%

4480 x 1080

1.14%

-0.04%

4480 x 1440

28.24%

+0.28%

4480 x 1445

0.50%

0.00%

4480 x 1600

1.30%

-0.04%

4520 x 1920

0.92%

-0.02%

4880 x 2560

0.54%

+0.04%

4920 x 1920

0.76%

-0.04%

4920 x 2160

0.64%

+0.04%

5120 x 1440

10.86%

+0.24%

5120 x 1600

1.04%

+0.10%

5120 x 2880

0.62%

0.00%

5280 x 2560

0.58%

+0.04%

5360 x 1440

3.40%

-0.04%

5560 x 1920

0.64%

0.00%

5760 x 1080

2.36%

-0.04%

5760 x 2160

4.80%

+0.10%

6000 x 1440

1.56%

-0.02%

6000 x 3840

0.40%

+0.40%

6400 x 1440

1.72%

+0.02%

6400 x 2160

3.72%

+0.08%

7040 x 1440

0.66%

0.00%

7280 x 2160

0.48%

+0.02%

7680 x 1440

0.80%

+0.02%

7680 x 2160

2.72%

+0.04%

Other

51.58%

-0.68%

Language

English

34.20%

-4.05%

Greek

0.05%

-0.01%

Arabic

0.00%

Indonesian

0.15%

-0.01%

Norwegian

0.11%

-0.01%

Vietnamese

0.25%

-0.04%

Swedish

0.23%

-0.03%

French

2.08%

-0.21%

Hungarian

0.32%

-0.05%

German

2.48%

-0.24%

Japanese

2.41%

-0.09%

Portuguese-Brazil

3.70%

-0.33%

Spanish - Spain

4.08%

-0.45%

Russian

9.05%

-0.85%

Simplified Chinese

31.39%

+7.42%

Polish

1.49%

-0.20%

Czech

0.50%

-0.04%

Korean

1.37%

-0.26%

Portuguese - Portugal

0.31%

-0.02%

Traditional Chinese

1.27%

-0.04%

Dutch

0.23%

-0.02%

Turkish

1.09%

-0.16%

Danish

0.19%

-0.03%

Thai

0.82%

-0.07%

Finnish

0.13%

-0.01%

Spanish - Latin America

0.75%

-0.06%

Romanian

0.10%

-0.02%

Ukrainian

0.66%

-0.07%

Bulgarian

0.04%

0.00%

Italian

0.56%

-0.05%

Malay

0.00%

English

34.20%

-4.05%

Free Hard Drive Space

100 GB to 249 GB

22.03%

-1.95%

Unspecified

0.00%

Less than 10 GB

0.76%

-0.12%

10 GB to 99 GB

14.37%

-1.55%

100 GB to 249 GB

22.03%

-1.95%

250 GB to 499 GB

21.94%

-1.07%

500 GB to 749 GB

10.80%

-0.27%

750 GB to 999 GB

8.29%

-0.43%

1 TB to 2 TB

9.59%

+0.34%

2 TB to 3 TB

2.81%

+0.50%

3 TB to 4 TB

2.11%

+0.47%

Above 4 TB

7.28%

+4.06%

Total Hard Drive Space

Above 1 TB

53.30%

+3.79%

Unspecified

1.17%

+1.09%

Less than 10 GB

0.00%

10 GB to 99 GB

0.14%

-0.04%

100 GB to 249 GB

4.65%

-0.79%

250 GB to 499 GB

15.86%

-1.83%

500 GB to 749 GB

2.17%

-0.25%

750 GB to 999 GB

22.71%

-1.96%

Above 1 TB

53.30%

+3.79%

VR Headsets

Meta Quest 3

26.90%

+0.89%

Meta Quest 3

26.90%

+0.89%

Oculus Quest 2

25.80%

-1.17%

Meta Quest 3S

11.07%

-0.42%

Valve Index HMD

10.83%

-0.25%

Pico 4

4.76%

+0.29%

Oculus Rift S

3.40%

+0.01%

Sony PS VR2

2.31%

+0.07%

HTC Vive

2.26%

-0.13%

Windows Mixed Reality

1.85%

-0.23%

Oculus Rift

1.80%

-0.03%

Meta Quest Pro

1.53%

+0.01%

Bigscreen Beyond

1.27%

+0.02%

HTC Vive Pro

0.72%

+0.09%

Pimax HMD

0.67%

+0.07%

Pico Neo 3

0.65%

+0.07%

HTC Vive Pro 2

0.58%

+0.09%

Oculus Quest

0.43%

-0.01%

iVRy

0.40%

+0.02%

HTC Vive Focus Vision

0.26%

-0.01%

HTC VIVE XR Elite

0.16%

-0.07%

HTC Vive Cosmos

0.16%

+0.00%

Riftcat Vridge

0.14%

-0.01%

Varjo Aero

0.04%

+0.00%

Sony PlayStation VR

0.02%

+0.01%

Oculus Rift DK1

0.02%

+0.01%

Pico Neo 2

0.02%

+0.01%

Oculus Rift DK2

0.01%

-0.00%

Other

1.93%

+0.69%

Steam users with VR Headsets

1.35%

-0.14%

Other Settings

SSE3

98.32%

+0.17%

AVX512VNNI

27.56%

+3.61%

SHA

81.54%

+2.21%

FMA

96.12%

+0.53%

SSE2

98.32%

+0.17%

NTFS

94.95%

+1.08%

BMI2

95.91%

+0.57%

AVX

97.54%

+0.31%

LAHF / SAHF

98.31%

+0.16%

SSE4.2

98.21%

+0.18%

SSE4a

46.96%

+1.69%

SSE4.1

98.24%

+0.18%

SSSE3

98.26%

+0.17%

SSE3

98.32%

+0.17%

AES

97.63%

+0.27%

AVX2

95.95%

+0.55%

CMPXCHG16B

98.31%

+0.16%

AVX512F

27.46%

+3.56%

AVX512PF

0.00%

PrefetchW

0.00%

BMI1

96.14%

+0.52%

AVX512ER

0.00%

F16C

97.03%

+0.40%

AVX512CD

27.46%

+3.56%

HyperThreading

88.70%

+0.84%

FCMOV

3.61%

-0.96%

Steam Hardware & Software Survey: September 2026

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Mac Only

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