June Steam Hardware Survey: Nvidia, Intel and Windows 10 continue to grow

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 07/04/2019 07:41 AM | source: steam / pcgameshardware | 30 comment(s)

Steam has published the results of its monthly hardware and software survey for June 2019, which, statistically speaking, also provides an interesting impression of the hardware used by the users. For Nvidia, Intel and Windows 10 you can notice growth of market share.

According to the numbers, Nvidia still dominates the PC desktop GPU field with 75.5 percent (+ 0.64%) and Intel with 82.01 percent (+ 0.21%) the graphics cards and processors of the Steam users and increased slightly compared to the previous month, The most popular graphics card was again the aging midrange GeForce GTX 1060 graphics card at 15.5 percent (-0.19%), followed by the GTX 1050 Ti at 10.28 percent (+ 0.74%) and the GTX 1050 with 6.02 percent (+ 1.00%), which together account for around one third of the spread.

Geforce RTX barely noticeable
When we look at the Geforce RTX models, the Geforce RTX 2070 is the most popular model with 1.06 percent (+0.15), while others are below one percentage point. Here's a shocker, Full HD remains the most commonly used resolution at 64.50 percent (+2.04), while WQHD remains imperceptible at 4.71 percent (+0.03) and UHD at 1.61 percent (+0.01) have increased. The number of DX12 systems grew by about 2 percent to 67.57 percent (with Windows 10) or 23.66 percent (without Windows 10), while the most common video memory is 2 GB (19.48 percent, + 1.16%).

Quad-core and 8 GB of RAM continue standard
Meanwhile, quad-core systems were down slightly at 53.3 percent (-1.47%), while systems with more than four CPU cores posted a slight gain of 0.28 percent (27.71 percent overall), as did Dual-core processors +1.33 percent (total 18.27 percent), with no exact breakdown of hexa- and octacores. RAM at 8GB was still the most widely used at 38.36% (+ 1.27%) and 16GB at 33.89% (-0.54%).

Windows 10 front, VR stagnant
On the operating systems side, Windows 10 64-bit with 70.92 percent (+ 3.08%) could keep its lead ahead of Windows 7 64-bit with 21.34 percent (-2.09 percent) and Windows 8.1 64-bit with 2.74 Increase percent (-0.18%). In the VR sector, there were slight shifts among the competitors, with the Oculus Rift being the most used model with 0.44 percent (-0.02%), followed by HTC Vive with 0.41 percent, unchanged from the previous month, and Windows Mixed Reality with 0.11 percent (+ 0.01%).

Participation in the Steam Hardware and Software Survey is voluntary to users and no precise information is provided on the number of participants or the individual markets, but the distribution is likely to be relatively meaningful.

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fantaskarsef
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#5687027 Posted on: 07/04/2019 07:43 AM

Steam hardware Survey...

sverek
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#5687067 Posted on: 07/04/2019 09:20 AM

Steam hardware Survey...

AKA: pre-built PC survey

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#5687070 Posted on: 07/04/2019 09:28 AM

AKA: pre-built PC survey

It depends. I would take it by region. That may show some more interesting data. But it still remains that headline can be read as :
AMD continues to shrink in gaming PCs.

And that's believable even while we know very well how unreliable steam survey can be. And that internet cafes may purchase much older HW and conceal actual trend changes done by newly released HW.

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#5687071 Posted on: 07/04/2019 09:28 AM

Wouldn't laptops play a big role there? Intel still dominates those even more than the desktop scene.

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#5687076 Posted on: 07/04/2019 09:48 AM

Wouldn't laptops play a big role there? Intel still dominates those even more than the desktop scene.

That's a good point and most notepcs got Intel in em. Shame Steam survey doesn't tell the percentage of notepc and desktop pc.

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#5687081 Posted on: 07/04/2019 10:04 AM

Steam survey is botched since it's opt-in basically (which is good), but you'll never know how many did not do that.
At least it still shows why RT for 1080p seems to be "okay" for Nvidia

j/k

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#5687096 Posted on: 07/04/2019 10:51 AM

It's only "botched" if one statistical group refuse to opt in more then another. The only group that I can see having a particularly high percentage of opt outs is Linux because beardy people tend to be more suspicious then the rest.

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#5687097 Posted on: 07/04/2019 10:57 AM

Not surprised that FHD is far and away the dominant resolution.
Personally I can't justify the price to performance ratio of higher resolutions screens and the supporting hardware required to run them.
Most "casual" gamers are in the same boat as well.

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#5687101 Posted on: 07/04/2019 11:18 AM

"Intel with 82.01 percent (+ 0.21%)"

Meanwhile on Mindfactory:

Amazon CPU sales:
UK
US
Germany

Gamers Nexus users' poll

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#5687117 Posted on: 07/04/2019 12:05 PM

Definitely true, and such groups do exist even with windows users. I opted out because I already said, the statistic's not that accurate... and I honestly don't see the gain for me to have those numbers end up in a statistic. Besides, as a currently Intel + Nvidia user, I'd not make that much of a difference. And I see how especially, like you said, more advanced users of high end PCs might be more common to opt out than OEM prebuilt system buyers, for example.

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#5687139 Posted on: 07/04/2019 01:27 PM

I would take this with a grain of salt to be honest one thing i noticed with my Intel systems i used to frequently get pop ups to do the steam surveys but i have NEVER had it come up on either of my Ryzen systems, ryzen 2500U laptop or my 1700 desktop i have to manually opt in for to work this i think inflates the results quite significantly. I don't know if any other Ryzen owner have noticed this?

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#5687143 Posted on: 07/04/2019 01:31 PM

some people see the stats is just "un-reliable" or what ?
while some reported steam have 90million active user (https://www.pcgamesn.com/steam-active-users)

i think some people here just forget that the survey is not count based "current-changes"
i mean some people rig can be as old as 5years+ ... not everyone upgrade / build new rig every 2-3years
and AMD trending is just starting like what, 2years? and those wont reflect the survey that fast

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#5687178 Posted on: 07/04/2019 03:59 PM

I suspect I botch the surveys by participating in with the same ancient motherboard and CPU (and the same brand of GPU) for many years now. Sorry...

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#5687182 Posted on: 07/04/2019 04:08 PM

@BReal85 : your numbers are good. But they are for what you can call community like ours... People who build their own systems. This just shows that in general AMD is preferred by people who spend time to know what they are buying.

But prebuilt PCs end up with intel's chips much more than AMD's. Either because it is contracted on side by intel or because shops put HW into them that they have trouble selling separately.

But trend is good.

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#5687184 Posted on: 07/04/2019 04:13 PM

Actually, the Linux opt-outs are involuntary. Beta users are/were not prompted for the survey, and sometimes you need the beta version. I heard this supposedly isn't an issue anymore, but I didn't get much proof of that.

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