Steam Hardware Survey revealed: Trends reversed

Steam Steam Hardware Survey’s November data has been shared. The list, based on Steam users, shows the latest status of the competition between operating systems, graphics cards and processors. While RTX 3060 remains at the top of this month’s list, Windows 11 and AMD’s rise has begun.

The most popular graphics cards on Steam have been announced

If we start from the graphics card category, the ranking has remained largely unchanged. RTX 3060 became the most popular graphics card among users in November. However, GPU, which had a 5.04% share, lost 4.88% points for the first time since August. Continuing the ranking, the graphics cards in the top five were GTX 1650, GTX 1060, RTX 3060 mobile and RTX 2060, respectively. Here is the ranking

• RTX 3060
• GTX 1650
• GTX 1060
• RTX 3060 mobile
• RTX 2060
• RTX 3060 Ti
• RTX 3070
• GTX 1050 Ti
• RTX 3050
• GTX 1660 Super

In addition to graphics cards, there are radical changes in the processor sequence. In October, Intel’s share had increased significantly, reaching almost 75%. We see that this rise paused in November. Accordingly, Intel’s share decreased by 8.31% to 66.08%, while AMD’s share increased by 8.30% and is used by 33.88% of Steam users.

• Intel: 66.08% (-8.31%)
• AMD: 33.88% (+8.30)

Windows 11 is climbing uphill

As for the operating system ranking, the transition from Windows 10 to Windows 11 has been greatly accelerated. According to Valve, the share of Windows 11 increased to 43.54% in November, while the share of Windows 10 was around 55.44%.

Windows 10 64-bit, the most popular operating system on Steam, had a 67.32% share in October and lost 11.88 points in November. Windows 11 increased its share by 12.20 points from 31.43 in October. Additionally, Valve says that Windows 7 64 bit, the popular third Windows release on Steam, currently has a 0.72% share (-0.38 points).

• Windows 10 64-bit: 55.44% (-11.88%)
• Windows 11: 43.54% (+12.20%)
• Windows 7 64-bit: 0.72% (-0.38%)
• Windows 8.1 64-bit: 0.17% (-0.03%)
• Windows 7 32-bit: 0.06% (-0.06%)
• Other: 0.08%