Windows 11 has become the most popular OS on Steam

According to the latest Steam statistics for August, the Windows 11 operating system, almost three years after its release, has become the most popular OS on Valve’s gaming platform. No less interesting is that mobile video cards in the August statistics captured all the top positions of the most popular GPUs on the site.

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The Windows 11 operating system has been closing the gap with its predecessor in Steam statistics for a long time. In August, the latest OS finally surpassed Windows 10, reaching 49.17% user share, while Windows 10 user share on the platform fell 3 percentage points to 47.09%.

It should be remembered that Steam statistics include data only from those users who agreed to take part in the survey. As for the share of Windows 11 users in the world, according to the latest statistics from Statcounter, it is 31%, which is only about half of what Windows 10 boasts. However, the popularity of Windows 11 has been growing since April this year, while the popularity of Windows 10 has been declining .

In the GPU segment, in terms of popularity growth in August, the first four places were taken by GeForce RTX 4060, RTX 3060, RTX 4050 and RTX 4070. The largest increase among desktop video cards was shown by the RTX 4070 model, the share of users of which increased by 0.17 p.p. in August . Among AMD video cards based on RDNA 3 architecture, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX showed the largest increase of 0.03 percentage points.

As for general GPU statistics, the RTX 3060 retains the title of the most popular video card, although the share of its users decreased by 0.37 percentage points in August. The mobile RTX 4060 has risen to second place as the most popular accelerator, overtaking the desktop GeForce GTX 1650, which once occupied first place. More than three quarters of all video cards included in the statistics are Nvidia accelerators. The share of AMD video card owners on the platform is 15.4%, and Intel – 7.7%.

Simplified Chinese is once again the most used language (35%) on the Steam platform, followed by English (31.1%). It is very likely that the performance here was influenced by the release of the extremely successful action movie Black Myth: Wukong. Black Myth: Wukong’s massive player base also helped set a record of 37 million concurrent active users on the Steam platform last week.

About half of Steam users use 16GB of RAM in their PCs. Also, over the past month, the share of owners of AMD processors has increased slightly – approximately a third of all platform survey participants use “red team” chips.

Most users still use video cards with 8 GB of memory. However, the popularity of such accelerators is decreasing, while the popularity of models with 12 GB of memory is growing. Even though, according to some gamers, 12 GB of video memory is also no longer enough for AAA games.