Valve’s newest Steam survey reveals the RTX 4000-series had a vacation enhance

What simply occurred? Valve is beginning 2024 with the primary Steam {hardware} and software program survey of the brand new yr. It should not be too stunning to be taught that December noticed an uptick within the variety of folks with newer RTX 40-series playing cards, in addition to a number of barely older RTX 30-series GPUs, seemingly the results of vacation presents. It was additionally a type of months the place Intel outperformed AMD within the CPU part.

Beginning with the Steam survey’s GPU chart, the RTX 3060 continues to sit down on the prime of the pile due to its presence in 5.29% of contributors’ machines. The cardboard was the one one of many prime six to expertise any beneficial properties final month (0.25%). The one different entry within the prime ten with a inexperienced quantity was the seventh-place RTX 3070, up 0.11% to take a 3.34% share.

Hottest GPUs amongst Steam survey contributors

A lot of the prime ten GPUs on the checklist are older merchandise such because the RTX 2060 and the GTX 1650, a former primary. Whereas their shares fell, December was interval for Nvidia’s Lovelace and Ampere sequence. The RTX 4070, one of many few RTX 4000 playing cards we favored, was one of the best performer, rising 0.34%. The one 40-series to not see any beneficial properties was the RTX 4090, although it by no means misplaced any of its share, both. In the meantime, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX, AMD’s solely RDNA 3 desktop card in the principle GPU chart, was up by simply 0.01%. It languishes within the decrease half of the desk with a 0.32% share.

Prime-performing GPUs amongst Steam survey contributors in December

Elsewhere within the survey, there was little change within the CPU part the place Intel’s share elevated by 0.21% to 66.2% as AMD’s fell by 0.22% to 33.6%. Workforce Blue’s 14th-gen Core CPU sequence landed in October, and the Core Extremely cell CPUs arrived in December.

Within the working system part, each Home windows 10 and 11 misplaced customers, with the previous nonetheless main the pack regardless of an ever-decreasing margin. Steam now not helps Home windows 7, 8, and eight.1, so anticipate to see these older working techniques’ shares disappear fully quickly sufficient – they’re already tiny.

The remainder of the survey reveals different potential holiday-related adjustments. The variety of folks with 32GB of RAM jumped by 1.25% to 24% as these with 16GB fell, although the latter quantity continues to be the preferred (48.5%). The variety of folks utilizing a FullHD show additionally declined barely as 1440p, 4K, and 3440 x 1440 elevated, probably attributable to folks receiving new displays for Christmas. It appears the Meta Quest 3 was additionally a preferred current, up 2.55% within the VR part.