{"id":61230,"date":"2014-01-05T13:27:30","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T11:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=61230"},"modified":"2014-01-08T12:48:52","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T10:48:52","slug":"steam-hardware-stats-how-does-your-pc-compare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/61230-steam-hardware-stats-how-does-your-pc-compare","title":{"rendered":"Steam hardware stats: how does your PC compare?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steam has released its hardware survey statistics for December 2013, so this is a good time to look at the most common gaming setup among Steam users to get an idea of the PC gaming hardware landscape as we head into 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Below is an overview of the most common setup among Steam users:<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Video card GPU types<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>DirectX 11 &#8211; <strong>67.76%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>DirectX 10 &#8211; 28.58%<\/li>\n<li>DirectX 9 Shader Model 2b and 3.0 &#8211; 1.78%<\/li>\n<li>DirectX 9 Shader Model 2.0 &#8211; 1.01%<\/li>\n<li>DirectX 8 and below &#8211; 0.87%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">PC processor manufacturer<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Intel &#8211; <strong>74.11%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>AMD &#8211; 25.89<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">CPU count<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>1 CPU &#8211; 3.53%<\/li>\n<li>2 CPUs &#8211; <strong>48.19%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>4 CPUs- 43.63%<\/li>\n<li>Other- 4.64%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are also a few Mac specific stats:<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Mac Ownership breakdown<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>MacBook Pro &#8211; <strong>53.83%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>iMac &#8211; 23.51%<\/li>\n<li>MacBook &#8211; 16.89%<\/li>\n<li>MacPro &#8211; 2.14%<\/li>\n<li>MacMini &#8211; 3.62%<\/li>\n<li>Other &#8211; 0.02%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Mac System RAM<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>1GB &#8211;\u00a00.34%<\/li>\n<li>2GB &#8211; 5.44%<\/li>\n<li>3GB &#8211; 0.42%<\/li>\n<li>4GB &#8211; 45.77%<\/li>\n<li>5+GB &#8211; <strong>48.01%<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Below is an overview of the most common hardware setup among Steam users.<\/p>\n<p>Note that the Intel HD Graphics 4000 chip is integrated into CPUs which may account for its prevalence although it is not a particularly great GPU for heavy gaming.<\/p>\n<p>The most popular &#8216;gaming grade&#8217; cards are the Nvidia <strong>GeForce GTX 660 at 2.29%<\/strong>; the most popular AMD card is the <strong>Radeon HD 7850 at 1.30%<\/strong>; while the <strong>Intel HD Graphics 4000 dominates in 4.03%<\/strong> of systems.<\/p>\n<p>The full breakdown of GPUs among Steam users can be found here: <a title=\"Steam Hardware Stats\" href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/hwsurvey\/videocard\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steam Hardware &amp; Software Survey<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_61231\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Steam-Hardware-Stats-December-2013.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61231\" class=\" wp-image-61231  \" alt=\"Steam Hardware Stats December 2013\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Steam-Hardware-Stats-December-2013.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Steam-Hardware-Stats-December-2013.jpg 1769w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Steam-Hardware-Stats-December-2013-600x276.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-61231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steam Hardware Stats December 2013<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It is interesting to compare the above average hardware setup to the specifications of the Steam Machine prototypes that are now in the hands of the first 300 testers.<\/p>\n<p>There is no single specification that manufacturing partners will have to adhere to, but a certain minimum performance level will be required.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see below, the prototypes vary a lot in the CPU and GPU department.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GPU: Nvidia Titan, GTX780, GTX760, and GTX660.<\/li>\n<li>CPU:\u00a0 Intel i7-4770, i5-4570, some i3.<\/li>\n<li>RAM: 16GB DDR3-1600 (CPU), 3GB GDDR5 (GPU).<\/li>\n<li>Storage: 1TB\/8GB Hybrid SSHD.<\/li>\n<li>Power supply: Internal 450w 80Plus Gold.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How does your hardware setup look in comparison? Let us know in to comments below.<\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a title=\"Steam Hardware Stats\" href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/hwsurvey\" target=\"_blank\">Steam hardware survey stats<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61223-cyber-attack-takes-down-steam-origin-services.html\">Cyber-attack takes down Steam, Origin services<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61212-steam-download-stats-for-sa.html\">Steam download stats for SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61211-marvel-games-disappear-from-digital-stores.html\">Marvel games disappear from digital stores<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valve has released its latest statistics for the hardware of its user base &#8211; how does your rig compare heading into 2014?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":58713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[21,85,11340,697],"class_list":["post-61230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-headline","tag-steam","tag-steam-machines","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61232,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61230\/revisions\/61232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}