Steam's New Hardware Survey Shows Big Changes To GPU, RAM And OS

While not perfect, Steam's hardware and software survey, which is updated every month, is one of the quickest and easiest ways to gauge what kind of systems gamers are using at any given point in time. You just have to take the results with a grain of salt. If you don't, you'll end up thinking that most gamers are running a gaming PC with a GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card, 32GB of RAM, and Windows 10.

All three metrics jumped to the top of the charts in their individual categories for February 2025. But is that really the most popular gaming PC configuration on Steam? Before answering that question, important caveats about Steam's methodology abound.

The biggest and most important caveat is that the monthly survey is not a snapshot of every system that accesses Steam. Valve doesn't get into the weeds of how the ...