Steam's latest hardware survey has been released, and the main trends for June 2023 show that Windows 10 remains by far the most popular gaming OS, while Nvidia's RTX 40 series is struggling to gain market share.

Let's start with the video card results. Mid-range xx50 and xx60 cards continue to dominate, with the GTX 1650 being the most popular with a 5.50% share, followed by the RTX 3060 with 4.50%, and the GTX 1060, the previous leader, with 4.45%. In fact, it would have to drop another six places before meeting the RTX 3070. The majority of gamers are either unable or unwilling to spend large sums of money on high-end graphics cards.

AMD's first entry is quite far down the list, with only integrated graphics; the top-ranked AMD discrete GPU is the venerable RX 580, which has only a 1% share of the overall market.

Interestingly, Nvidia's RTX 40 series has so far failed to make much of an impression, with the mobile RTX 4060 in 29th place and the RTX 4070 Ti in 35th. Indeed, the entire RTX 40 series has only been on the market for a short time, and the RTX 4060 Ti and RTX 4060 will undoubtedly move up in the rankings over the next few years. However, from these results, it does not appear that Nvidia is overjoyed with the widespread adoption of the RTX 40 series. But then again, would Nvidia, which makes billions of dollars in AI hardware, care about that?

CPU results haven't changed much of late, with Intel holding a roughly 2-to-1 advantage among Windows users. Interestingly, AMD's chips are popular among Linux gamers, flipping this 2:1 advantage in favor of AMD. This is the Steam Deck effect.

What really surprises me is the relatively slow adoption of Windows 11, which has a 35.75% market share compared to Windows 10's 59.43%. Part of this may be due to the fact that it is an OS that happens to be on older gaming systems, but Windows 11 has not provided a smooth ride for gamers at all, with steep system requirements and bugs that affected Windows 11 22H2. Since Microsoft plans to continue supporting Windows 10 for two more years, many users are in no rush to upgrade.

It is worth noting that the Steam hardware survey is best viewed as a rough indication of market share rather than a final indicator of market share.

In terms of monitor resolution, 1080p is the overwhelming favorite at 62%, but it is slowly but surely losing share to higher resolutions, including ultrawide resolutions. any resolution above 1080p is seeing an increase in adoption.

In short, by June 2023, gaming systems with 6-core CPUs, 16GB of RAM, GTX 1650s, and Windows 10 will be the most common, and unless GPUs offer a significant performance leap at a similar price to previous xx50 cards, this situation is unlikely to change anytime soon. unlikely to change.