Steam Hardware Survey: Anomalous Growth in October

Valve's latest Steam hardware survey for October reveals an anomalous trend: nearly all graphics cards experienced growth in usage, a departure from the usual fluctuating patterns. This unusual growth across the board coincides with a nearly 14% increase in overall survey participants. This suggests a significant expansion of the statistical sample, although the reason for this remains unclear. Despite the unusual overall growth, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 retains its top spot with a 7.24% share (+1.53%), followed by the mobile RTX 4060 (5.44%, +1.20%) and the desktop RTX 4060 (5.06%, +0.62%). Notably, no AMD graphics cards currently feature in the top 10. The operating system landscape continues to shift, with Windows 10 declining (-2.71%) and Windows 11 rising (+4.28%). Users are also increasingly adopting 16GB of RAM (+1.43%) and eight-core processors (+1.76%). View the complete Steam Hardware Survey here .