Does your PC beat the Steam user average?

Steam’s latest hardware stats are out, painting an interesting picture of the PC gaming landscape.

The stats are drawn from hundreds of thousands of users who choose to participate in Steam’s automated PC specs hardware survey.

Below is a summary of the most popular PC configurations used by Steam gamers on Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux.

Does your system match or beat the most popular configurations?

Most popular Windows PC configuration – Steam Hardware Stats February 2014
Windows Version	Windows 7 64 bit	53.11%
System RAM	8 GB	27.35%
Processor Vendor	Intel	74.17%
	AMD	25.82%
Intel CPU Speeds	2.3 Ghz to 2.69 Ghz	20.65%
AMD CPU Speeds	3.0 Ghz to 3.29 Ghz	5.13%
Physical CPUs	2 CPUs	46.97%
	4 CPUs	44.67%
DirectX 11 Systems (Vista/Win7/Win8 & DX 11 GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 660	2.49%
	AMD Radeon HD 7850	1.31%
DirectX 10.x Systems (Vista/Win7/Win8 & DX 10.x GPU)	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660	2.49%
	AMD Radeon HD 7850	1.31%
VRAM	1024 MB	36.66%
Primary Display Resolution	1920 x 1080	33.52%
Total Hard Drive Space	250 GB to 499 GB	33.12%
Free Hard Drive Space	250 GB to 499 GB	25.39%

Most popular Mac OSX configuration – Steam Hardware Stats February 2014
Hardware Model	MacBookPro	53.16%
OSX version	MacOS 10.9.1 64 bit	58.58%
System RAM	4 GB	44.98%
Intel CPU Speeds	2.3 Ghz to 2.69 Ghz	50.00%
Physical CPUs	2 CPUs	61.45%
	4 CPUs	37.76%
Video Card Description	AMD Radeon HD 6750M	5.38%
	Nvidia GeForce 320M	5.03%
VRAM	1024 MB	38.71%
Primary Display Resolution	1280 x 800	29.94%
Total Hard Drive Space	250 GB to 499 GB	35.64%
Free Hard Drive Space	10 GB to 99 GB	29.57%

Most popular Linux configuration – Steam Hardware Stats February 2014
Linux version	Ubuntu 13.10 64 bit	27.18%
System RAM	3 GB	18.83%
Processor vendor	Intel	76.71%
	AMD	23.28%
Intel CPU Speeds	2.3 Ghz to 2.69 Ghz	22.76%
AMD CPU Speeds	3.0 Ghz to 3.29 Ghz	5.01%
Physical CPUs	2 CPUs	48.81%
	4 CPUs	39.40%
Video Card Description	Nvidia GeForce GTX 660	2.02%
	AMD Radeon HD 6850	0.96%
VRAM	1024 MB	33.15%
Primary Display Resolution	1920 x 1080	32.56%
Total Hard Drive Space	100 GB to 249 GB	30.28%
Free Hard Drive Space	10 GB to 99 GB	40.92%

Intel CPUs clearly rule the gaming roost, although there are a few things to note here. For example, on Windows Intel has a 74.17% share, and the only other option being AMD, they secure 25.82%. Apple Mac computers are entirely Intel based.

This leads to a red herring in the GPU stats. On most platforms Intel’s GPU chips dominate due to their integration into modern Intel CPUs. It is highly unlikely that a serious gamer will be using only Intel HD Graphics without another discrete GPU in their system. Therefore we have removed Intel’s integrated GPUs from the list to show which discrete GPUs are top.

It is interesting to note that overall, Windows has a 95.17% share among Steam users; Mac OSX has 3.42%, and Linux 1.30%.

While Windows 7 64-bit is the most popular OS with 50.55% share, Windows 8.1 64-bit saw the biggest growth month-on-month out of measured operating systems, gaining 1.41% share to reach 11.82%.