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Huge OS and RAM usage swings in Steam Survey likely to have been influenced by China influx

Steam just released its February 2025 Hardware Survey, and we saw some interesting results.

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Nvidia is winding down developer support for 9 and 10-series graphics cards, but they'll likely keep getting driver updates for a while yet

Nvidia is winding down developer support for 9 and 10-series graphics cards, but they'll likely keep getting driver updates for a while yet

Don't panic buy a new GPU: Two years passed between 7-series cards' CUDA deprecation and the end of their driver support.

Windows 11 skips past 50% market share milestone in latest Steam survey

Windows 11 skips past 50% market share milestone in latest Steam survey

Microsoft’s Windows 11 operating system strode past a major market share milestone in August. The newest version of Windows gained an impressive 3.36% market share, according to the newest Steam Hardware Survey data, to reach 50.81% share.

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AMD RX 7000-series gaming GPUs still mostly MIA in Steam stats — continued gains for Nvidia's RTX 40-series

The latest Steam Hardware Survey dropped, with continued gains from Nvidia's current RTX 40-series GPUs. AMD's cards remain underrepresented, and we can't help but feel far more are in use than the survey suggests.

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Steam survey suggests more players are using gaming PCs with over 1TB storage

Valve's Steam hardware survey for February 2024 suggests more players are using SSD and hard drive options over 1TB to run PC games.

The Meta Quest 3’s popularity is proof a cheap Vision Pro can’t come soon enough

There's a place for high-end VR headsets, but I hope they don't replace budget options – and the numbers show they won't.

Steam survey suggests more players are upgrading to 16GB RAM

Valve's Steam hardware survey for January hints that more players are upgrading and using gaming PCs with 16GB RAM as a minimum rather than 8GB.

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Steam survey suggests more people bought the RTX 4090 than the Steam Deck — along with millions of other RTX 40-series GPUs

Steam survey suggests more people bought the RTX 4090 than the Steam Deck — along with millions of other RTX 40-series GPUs

The Steam Deck was projected to hit three million sales by the end of 2023, and based on the Steam Hardware Survey, the RTX 4090 somehow sold even more units — as did most other RTX 40-series desktop GPUs.

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Steam survey suggests players are leaving 1440p gaming monitors behind

Steam survey suggests players are leaving 1440p gaming monitors behind

Valve's Steam hardware survey for November suggests 1440p gaming monitor usage is on a decline, as PC players could be now switching to 4K.

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Debuts in Steam Hardware Survey at Position 93

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Debuts in Steam Hardware Survey at Position 93

AMD's Radeon RX 7900 XTX has finally surfaced in the Steam Hardware Survey at position 93, with 0.17% market share.

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Steam players are reverting back to GTX 1660 graphics cards, despite Nvidia's best efforts

Steam players are reverting back to GTX 1660 graphics cards, despite Nvidia's best efforts

The latest Steam Hardware Survey suggests more players are now using an Nvidia GTX 1660 GPU, rather than making the jump to newer cards like the RTX 4060.

RTX 3060 Drops From First Place in Latest Steam Hardware Survey

RTX 3060 Drops From First Place in Latest Steam Hardware Survey

Steam's Hardware survey has been fixed, putting the GTX 1650 back in 1st place and GTX 1060 in 2nd. Apparently, there was a glitch in Steam's analysis that caused some cards like the 3060 to skyrocket in market share.

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