Yesterday we saw that Windows 10 is still the king of desktops, even though Windows 11 is still gaining ground and gradually positioning itself as the operating system. increasingly relevant in market share. If we look at the latest Steam data, obtained from the software and hardware survey carried out last February, we can see that this operating system is also having a good time.

During the shutdown in February 2023, the total percentage of Windows 11 users on Steam was a 32.06%, a figure that represents an increase of 1.73% compared to the month of January, and in proportion it represents something very important: that almost one in three Steam users is running Windows 11. Windows 10 share dropped to 62.33%but it is clear that the mentioned operating system continues to lead in the well-known digital distribution platform Valve.

A look at the most used hardware on Steam

in processors 6-core chips lead with 33.42%, and its share increased by 1.34% during the month of February. The second most used are the quad-core ones with 27.96%, although they fell by 1.55% in February, and the third are the 8-core ones, which already have a share of 20.09% on Steam.

It is curious that for the 6-core processors leading Steam, the most common operating frequencies were reduced to 2.3 GHz and 2.69 GHz. The second position is for frequencies between 3.3 GHz and 3.69 GHz, and the third for speeds between 2.7 GHz and 2.99 GHz. The most used RAM configuration is 16 GB with 52.71%, which does not surprise us because it has become the new optimal level for gaming with guarantees.

And speaking of gaming with guarantees, in that sense it’s strange that the most popular graphics card on Steam is GeForce GTX 1650, a model that underperforms the Radeon RX 570 and GeForce GTX 970, even though it struggles at 1080p. The second most popular graphics card is the GeForce GTX 1060 and the third is the GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile.

For the rest, there are no surprises, the most common storage capacity exceeds a terabyte, the most used language is English, the most common resolution is 1080p and the most common amount of graphics memory is 8 GB. The survey also revealed that the GeForce RTX 4090 is the most popular NVIDIA RTX 40-series graphics card on Steam, followed by the GeForce RTX 4080 and GeForce RTX 4070 Ti.