Steam’s November 2015 Hardware Survey has been revealed and some really interesting details can be extracted from that survey. According to the monthly survey, 29% of Steam users are running Windows 10. And let us tell you this is a huge jump compared to Steam’s August stats. Back in August, 17% of Steam’s users were running Windows 10. Therefore, we’re looking at a 59% increase in just 3 months.
In other news, 54% of Steam users are using an NVIDIA GPU, while 26% are using an AMD/ATI GPU. Moreover 19% of Steam users are using an Intel integrated GPU. This basically means that NVIDIA’s figures (from August to November) increased 2%, whereas AMD’s and Intel’s figures decreased 1%.
DX12 is an API that a lot of gamers are looking forward to. While there are currently only two games supporting it (Caffeine and Ashes of the Singularity), 67% of Steam users own a DX12-capable system. Out of this percentage, only 29% can take advantage of it (as the API is exclusive to Windows 10).
When it comes to the CPUs, it’s pretty obvious that Intel remains the big winner here. Around 76.36% of Steam users own an Intel CPU, while 23.64% own an AMD CPU.
Last but not least, around 47.93% of Steam users own a dual-core CPU, while 45.12% own a quad-core CPU. And as we said back in August:
“This may explain why developers are mainly targeting quad-core CPUs. Yes, we’ve already got engines that scale well on more than six CPU cores, however there are not that many games that show noteworthy performance differences between a modern-day quad-core and an octa-core CPU.”
Thankfully, in 2015 we’ve seen a number of games scaling ideally on more than four CPU cores, so here is hoping that this trend will continue in 2016.
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in case of intel nvidia and amd, what is this other?
Intel
Via is the only that comes to mind
Integrated graphics. Non extreme intel processors have them and amd has APUs.
Whoops, didn’t check the graph, forget my comment then.
“While there are currently only two games supporting it (Caffeine and Ashes of the Singularity)”
Three. You forgot Fable Legends.
Is it out?
It’s in closed beta
you believe steam on this but not when the hardware survey comes out saying only 33% of pc gamers use 1080p..you pc guys just choose what you want to believe?(i know the flames are coming)
34% of people used a single 1080p monitor only. 66% of the people use resolutions other than 1080p or multi monitor setups, mostly more than 1080p not less than 1080p like clueless console peasants with poor reading comprehension like to believe.
One 1080p monitor = Single-monitor Desktop Resolution (1920×1080) = 35%
Two 1080p monitors = Multi-monitor Desktop Resolution (3840×1080) 29.03%
Three 1080p monitors = Multi-monitor Desktop Resolution (5760×1080) = 2.38%
etc
Dude, don’t waste your time with that troll/idiot/retard. You wouldn’t get any proper conversation with that …….. thing XD
yep
I find it a bit hard to believe that most of that 67% play at higher than 1080p. Believe it or not, a lot still play at 720p.
Resolutions like 720p & 768p are basically Laptop resolutions which explains why they were so popular in the survey if the survey was taken on a Laptop. But other than these two most of popular resolution were 1080p and above, including multi monitor resolutions.
I’m actually on the survey now and 1080p is the most popular at 35% and 1366X768 is 26%. All the resoulations above 1080p are below a single percent. I’d say 1440p is becoming popular yes but resolutions higher than 1080p aren’t to the point that it’s a standard for most.
One 1080p monitor = Single-monitor Desktop Resolution (1920×1080) = 35%
Two 1080p monitors = Multi-monitor Desktop Resolution (3840×1080) 29.03%
Three 1080p monitors = Multi-monitor Desktop Resolution (5760×1080) = 2.38%
etc
Copy/Paste this information whenever a console peasant brings up that BS argument again.
That’s under a different section though and multi monitor will always be high res.
Bro the problem with that is that it’s under different sections. Yes 29% might be using 4K but how many PC gamers use a multi monitor setup in the first place? That’s basically a percentage of a percentage.
3840×1080 is not 4K.
4K is 3840×2160.
3840×1080 is two 1920×1080 monitors. Which mean 29.03% use two 1080p monitors as opposed to 35% who use only one 1080p monitor and only 2.38% use three 1080p monitors.
Dude the survey says 29% of people with a multi monitor setup use two 1080p monitors not that 29% of pc gamers use two 1080p monitors.
Dont waste your time. He love dualshockers… peassent at the finest.
33% use 1080p of that 33% 29% is multi display. its not 66% use 1080p. lol they need to learn how to read a survey.
bro only 33% use 1080 and im sure you will agree most pc gamers us 2 or more monitors. so out out oOF that 33% that use 1080p 29% use multi display ITS NOT 33% use single monitors and 29% use multi display.
im sure you thought add 33% and then add 29%. its 29% out of the 33% that use multi display. learn to read they survey.
IT tells you what each percentage is you don’t have to write that you belive that 29 % of the 60% of the 80% use a phone
dont get it with that guy 35% of pc gamers use 1080p and we can agree most gamers use at least 2 monitors right?
so with that in mind 33% use 1080p OF that 33% i 29% use multi monitor.the rest is single. he needs to leard how to read a survey.
I play in 4K, before that 2K and before that I had 120Hz Samsung with 1650 resolution
wrong multi display is only 29%. which means most gamesrs who do games at 1080p use dual monitors.
33% of pc only use 1080p of that 33% 29% is multi display. so 4% only use one monitor and by pics of peoples setups you can see that.
http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
its all there
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last time steam asked my to fill the survey was two years ago.
oh no, it asks first, if you accept then it start gathering your PC info
because it wont do it everytime, only the people who accept to run the survey and only once untill it asks again.
im subbed to some game forums and while win10 works fine in some games, in some others its a mess to the point like 80% of people requesting help are on win10
Never had ANY issues with Win10.
Most people have both left hands and cant keep a PC in working condition
depends a lot on which games you play. mostly AAA or very known games? youre going to be fine
but if you go a bit underground then youll run into some issues most likely
Hello guys, guess what ???
NOW FINALY, I am back to Pc Gaming.
Right now every parts for my new gaming pc has arrived, about bloody time. So I can put the stinky crappy PS4 where it belongs, in the thrashcan ..LOL!
Have been away from pc gaming for exacty a year and a week or two.
So now it’s just putting the shiny beauty together.
I went with a Skylake 6600k/ Asus Z 170 Pro Gaming motherboard and some great 16GB hyper X memory. And to top it of a GTX 970. All this with a SSD and will rest in the great Fractal Design R5 = Good Times Ahead boys 😀
And I wish you all a Happy New Year.
Welcome back.
Thanks mate, feels wonderful to be back, finaly 🙂
Have a great year and game on man!
May your temps be low and your framerates high.
Thanks mate, I hope so to 🙂
Have a nice year!
May 2016 bring lots of long gaming sprints! Have fun and welcome back…pc rules! 🙂
Thanks mate 🙂
Feels great to be back!
Hope you have a nice year ahead of you to, surely games seems to be no problem.
Yeah Pc Rules 😀
Dont know about you but I a pc gamer but I still like my ps4, go cry in a river. btw happy new year
Nice rig Sir! I am sure many many hours of quality gameplay and fun are ahead of you!
🙂
Happy New Year for you too!
Nice I just brought a gaming PC with a 970 next Thursday it should be here. I love my ps4 but I hate the compromises, I have to make a lot of times with titles. This is first my gaming PC cant wait!!!
Congrats mate, and good to hear a new pc gamer is on it’s way.
Just be cool and im sure everything will work out fine, and yeah – you will be blown away of how much better pc gaming is in pretty much every way.
So you enjoy and have a good time ahead 🙂
lol pls tell me u didnt actually throw it in the trash.
Naah, im not that crazy ..LOL!
Will keep my PS4 just for those few exclusives that is, the rest willl belong on the pc 🙂
Thanks a lot guys!
Feels fantastic to be back to the real gaming platform 🙂
Will start putting my new rig together right know,a good way to start the new year 🙂
Take care guys and have a good year 🙂
Isn’t DX12 a Windows 10 exclusive, like DX11 was for 7? I don’t understand how 67% can own a DX12 system with only 29% on Windows 10. Where am I wrong?
Edit: Ah, I see. 67% are DX12 “capable.”
“67% Owning DX12 System”
Completely misleading. Can current “DX12” GPUs even be called fully DX12? Is the standard finished and agreed upon? Do you have any guarantee that all DX12 games will run on your card? I don’t think you do.
DX12 is backward compatible with some recent DX11 video cards. They will be able to run those DX12 exclusive games but for more advanced DX12 features, I think you’ll need latest upcoming hardware. But it proves that over 59% people on steam (79+ million in worst case scenario, if we still assume that Steam has 125 million active users (11 months old report)) has GTX 700 series or better video cards (and AMD equivalent of those).
they should have said dx12 capable systems.only 54% own a nvidia gpu?doesnt nvidia hold 80% of the gpu market share or something like that?
i love my old games.. like GTA 3 and other cant run in windows 10