steam hardware survey

NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1060 reached its 10th anniversary on July 19, marking a rare run for a midrange graphics card that became the defining GPU of the late-2010s Steam PC. Launched in 2016 at $249 for partner cards and $299 for NVIDIA’s Founders Edition, the Pascal-based card paired...

In June 2026, Windows 11's share among Steam users reached 70.44%, passing 70% for the first time in Valve's monthly Hardware & Software Survey, while Windows 10 slipped to 23.56% and Windows as a whole remained dominant at 94.10% of surveyed systems worldwide. The milestone is not a referendum...

Valve’s June 2026 Steam Hardware and Software Survey shows Windows 11 passing 70 percent of surveyed Steam users, 1080p slipping toward 51 percent, 1440p-class displays gaining ground, and 16GB RAM reasserting itself as the most common gaming PC memory configuration. The headline is not that PC...

Valve’s latest Steam Hardware & Software Survey shows Windows 11 64-bit at 69.76 percent of surveyed Steam systems, Nvidia at 72.42 percent of GPUs, 16GB RAM as the most common memory configuration, and Meta’s Quest headsets leading VR usage. The numbers are not a census, and Steam’s opt-in...

Valve’s April 2026 Steam Hardware & Software Survey shows roughly a quarter of Windows gamers still running Windows 10 months after Microsoft ended mainstream support on October 14, 2025, even as Windows 11 dominates Steam and Microsoft’s paid Extended Security Updates bridge runs through...

Six months after Microsoft ended free support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, Valve’s April 2026 Steam Hardware and Software Survey still shows 25.53 percent of Steam users on Windows 10, while Windows 11 leads at 67.74 percent. That is not a rounding error; it is a migration failure hiding...

Valve’s April 2026 Steam Hardware & Software Survey shows Windows 11 rising to 67.74 percent of surveyed Steam users, while Linux fell back to 4.52 percent after briefly clearing the 5 percent mark in March. The numbers do not prove that Linux gaming is fading, nor do they prove that Windows 11...

Gamers are not “massively leaving” Windows 11 so much as the latest Steam survey is showing a sharp, and possibly noisy, month-to-month swing that deserves context. Valve’s February 2026 Hardware & Software Survey puts Windows 11 64-bit at 58.17% among surveyed Steam systems, while Windows 10...

Canonical’s latest Ubuntu release paperwork has ignited an oddly revealing comparison with Windows 11: the Linux desktop now asks for more RAM and more storage than Microsoft’s mainstream consumer OS, even as Steam’s Linux footprint hits a new high. The headline sounds provocative, but the...

More than two-thirds of Steam users are now running Windows 11, and the latest hardware survey reinforces a bigger story that has been building for years: the PC gaming market has largely completed its migration to Microsoft’s newer platform. Valve’s March 2026 survey shows Windows 11 at 66.85%...

Windows 11 has tightened its grip on Steam’s gaming audience, and the latest Hardware & Software Survey shows why the operating system remains such a powerful force in PC gaming. Valve’s March 2026 results put Windows 11 64-bit at 66.85% of surveyed devices, while Windows 10 64-bit fell to...

Windows 11 has now firmly established itself as the default operating system for Steam’s gaming audience, and the latest Valve Hardware & Software Survey makes that dominance hard to ignore. In March 2026, Windows 11 64-bit accounted for 66.85% of surveyed Steam systems, while Windows 10 64-bit...

Windows 11 now runs on roughly two‑thirds of active Steam gaming PCs, and the number has done more than stir headlines — it has reignited a familiar online fight: stay on Windows, or jump ship to Linux and SteamOS. Background / Overview Valve’s monthly Steam Hardware & Software Survey is the...

Valve’s monthly Steam Hardware & Software Survey has quietly become one of the clearest early indicators of how the PC ecosystem is shifting—and the most recent snapshots show Windows 11 firmly in the lead on Steam while Windows 10 still keeps a meaningful foothold among active gamers. )...