{"id":62694,"date":"2014-03-20T01:25:38","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T23:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=62694"},"modified":"2014-03-20T01:28:54","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T23:28:54","slug":"does-your-pc-beat-the-steam-user-average","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/62694-does-your-pc-beat-the-steam-user-average","title":{"rendered":"Does your PC beat the Steam user average?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steam’s latest hardware stats<\/a> are out, painting an interesting picture of the PC gaming landscape.<\/p>\n

The stats are drawn from hundreds of thousands of users who choose to participate in Steam’s automated PC specs hardware survey.<\/p>\n

Below is a summary of the most popular PC configurations used by Steam gamers on Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux.<\/p>\n

Does your system match or beat the most popular configurations?<\/p>\n

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Most popular Windows PC configuration – Steam Hardware Stats February 2014<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Windows Version<\/td>\nWindows 7 64 bit<\/td>\n53.11%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
System RAM<\/td>\n8 GB<\/td>\n27.35%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Processor Vendor<\/td>\nIntel<\/td>\n74.17%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAMD<\/td>\n25.82%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Intel CPU Speeds<\/td>\n2.3 Ghz to 2.69 Ghz<\/td>\n20.65%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
AMD CPU Speeds<\/td>\n3.0 Ghz to 3.29 Ghz<\/td>\n5.13%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Physical CPUs<\/td>\n2 CPUs<\/td>\n46.97%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n4 CPUs<\/td>\n44.67%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DirectX 11 Systems (Vista\/Win7\/Win8 & DX 11 GPU)<\/td>\nNvidia GeForce GTX 660<\/td>\n2.49%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAMD Radeon HD 7850<\/td>\n1.31%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DirectX 10.x Systems (Vista\/Win7\/Win8 & DX 10.x GPU)<\/td>\nNVIDIA GeForce GTX 660<\/td>\n2.49%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAMD Radeon HD 7850<\/td>\n1.31%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
VRAM<\/td>\n1024 MB<\/td>\n36.66%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Primary Display Resolution<\/td>\n1920 x 1080<\/td>\n33.52%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Total Hard Drive Space<\/td>\n250 GB to 499 GB<\/td>\n33.12%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Free Hard Drive Space<\/td>\n250 GB to 499 GB<\/td>\n25.39%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Most popular Mac OSX configuration\u00a0– Steam Hardware Stats February 2014<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Hardware Model<\/td>\nMacBookPro<\/td>\n53.16%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
OSX version<\/td>\nMacOS 10.9.1 64 bit<\/td>\n58.58%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
System RAM<\/td>\n4 GB<\/td>\n44.98%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Intel CPU Speeds<\/td>\n2.3 Ghz to 2.69 Ghz<\/td>\n50.00%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Physical CPUs<\/td>\n2 CPUs<\/td>\n61.45%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n4 CPUs<\/td>\n37.76%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Video Card Description<\/td>\nAMD Radeon HD 6750M<\/td>\n5.38%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNvidia GeForce 320M<\/td>\n5.03%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
VRAM<\/td>\n1024 MB<\/td>\n38.71%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Primary Display Resolution<\/td>\n1280 x 800<\/td>\n29.94%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Total Hard Drive Space<\/td>\n250 GB to 499 GB<\/td>\n35.64%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Free Hard Drive Space<\/td>\n10 GB to 99 GB<\/td>\n29.57%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Most popular Linux configuration – Steam Hardware Stats February 2014<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Linux version<\/td>\nUbuntu 13.10 64 bit<\/td>\n27.18%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
System RAM<\/td>\n3 GB<\/td>\n18.83%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Processor vendor<\/td>\nIntel<\/td>\n76.71%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAMD<\/td>\n23.28%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Intel CPU Speeds<\/td>\n2.3 Ghz to 2.69 Ghz<\/td>\n22.76%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
AMD CPU Speeds<\/td>\n3.0 Ghz to 3.29 Ghz<\/td>\n5.01%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Physical CPUs<\/td>\n2 CPUs<\/td>\n48.81%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n4 CPUs<\/td>\n39.40%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Video Card Description<\/td>\nNvidia GeForce GTX 660<\/td>\n2.02%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAMD Radeon HD 6850<\/td>\n0.96%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
VRAM<\/td>\n1024 MB<\/td>\n33.15%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Primary Display Resolution<\/td>\n1920 x 1080<\/td>\n32.56%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Total Hard Drive Space<\/td>\n100 GB to 249 GB<\/td>\n30.28%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Free Hard Drive Space<\/td>\n10 GB to 99 GB<\/td>\n40.92%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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%.<\/p>\n

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%.<\/p>\n

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Steam’s latest hardware stats reveal the most popular PC configurations in the gaming world – do you measure up?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":60724,"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":[21,85,12159,12158,697],"class_list":["post-62694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-headline","tag-steam","tag-steam-hardware-stats","tag-steam-hardware-survey","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62694","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=62694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62704,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62694\/revisions\/62704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}