Recently, the well-known game platform Steam updated the Hardware and Software Survey Report for March.
Steam conducts a monthly survey of platform users to summarize and rank the hardware and software information of users' computers, from which we can understand the hardware usage of some game users.
Among the top ten graphics card models, all are graphics cards from NVIDIA, and the Pascal architecture GTX 10 series graphics cards occupy 4 seats, which are the "top of the list" GTX 1060, GTX 1050 Ti, GTX 1050 and GTX 1070.
Turing architecture RTX 20 series and GTX 16 series graphics cards also occupy 4 seats, namely GTX 1650, RTX 2060, GTX 1660 Ti and GTX 1660 SUPER. This time, the RTX 2060 share has risen to the third position.
Nvidia Ampere architecture of RTX 30 series graphics card is RTX 3060 desktop graphics card and notebook graphics card occupy 2 seats, it is worth mentioning that this month the proportion of RTX 30 series graphics models have increased to varying degrees, RTX 3060 desktop graphics card growth rapidly, surpassing the RTX 3060 Laptop notebook graphics card ranked 7th, this is the first time that the graphics card has entered the top 10 ranks.
CPU
In terms of brand use, thanks to the sale of 12th-generation Core processors, the proportion of Intel processors has risen, reaching 69.34%, and AMD is 30.66%.
In terms of the number of processor cores, 6-core processors accounted for 34.22%, an increase of nearly 1.19%, surpassing 4-core processors and becoming the highest proportion of processor cores, while 4-core processors fell 1.27% to rank second.
At the same time, the proportion of 10 cores, 12 cores, 14 cores, and 16 cores has increased, which is related to the recent launch of new Products of Intel 12th Generation Core and AMD Ryzen™ series, which means that more and more players are favoring multi-core processors with 6 or more cores for gaming.
The version of Windows that players use the most is still 64-bit Windows 10, while the second-place 64-bit Windows 11 ranking has risen.
Editor's Comments:
On the graphics card side, as the price falls, the share occupied by the new graphics card should continue to show an upward trend.
Speaking of processors, playing old games, then 4 cores are definitely enough, but if you want to play a new 3A masterpiece, then 4 cores can be said to be "cheap and old", and now many games have to recommend i5-8400 with 6 cores to start, Xiaobian has also used 4 cores and 8 threads of 8-generation processors to play today's 3A masterpieces, the CPU is basically full of state during the game, and it is not as easy as before.
Coupled with the current Intel, AMD's main i5, R5 processor are 6 cores, 4-core processor gradually declined, it can be said that the processor development progress and game performance requirements of the era is inevitable.