Steam Hardware Survey for January 2022: AMD CPU rebounds strongly

by ddos ·

After a week of delays, the results of the Steam Hardware Survey for January 2022 are finally out. The leaders over the past month were AMD’s CPUs, Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 30-series mobile GPUs, Oculus Quest 2/Meta Quest, and Microsoft’s Windows 11 operating system, all of which increased their share to varying degrees.

After Intel released the 12th-generation Core series processors, AMD’s CPU share fell sharply in December 2021, ending the high-speed advance that began in August 2021. However, after just one month, there was a strong rebound, the CPU share increased by 0.25%, and the proportion was pushed back to about 31%.


The performance of the GeForce RTX 30 series GPUs of the NVIDIA desktop platform is not ideal, and the share of GeForce RTX 3060/RTX 3060 Ti/RTX 3070 has declined; GeForce RTX 3070 Ti/RTX 3090 is basically the same; GeForce RTX 3080/RTX 3080 Ti showed a small increase; the only big increase is the new GeForce RTX 3050. However, the Ampere architecture GPU of the mobile platform is advancing by leaps and bounds. The share of the GeForce RTX 3060/RTX 3080 mobile version has increased by 0.32% and 0.16% respectively, ranking second and third in the last month.

Somewhat unexpectedly, the top-ranked graphics card was the GeForce GTX 1650, perhaps due to increased Nvidia supply.
However, among the top ten graphics cards, only the GeForce RTX 3060 mobile version is a new entry into the list, and the other changes have not changed much. GeForce GTX 1060/GTX 1650/GTX 1050 Ti currently ranks in the top three.

The share of Windows 10 declined by 3.92%, and most of them were replaced by the new generation of Windows 11, which increased by 3.41%, and the share reached 13.56%. Somewhat surprising is that Windows 7’s share has increased to a certain extent. Additionally, about 2.14% of gamers own a VR device, and nearly half (46.02%) use an Oculus Quest 2/Meta Quest.

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