Punctual as every month comes the statistics from Steam, the largest gaming platform globally, which, although not absolute data, gives us a real and constant overview of gamers’ hardware and software habits. Among the notable data for the month of July that has just passed is the setback for Windows 11, which, after a period of continuous growth (see June for example), on this occasion loses 0.11 percent on a monthly basis.
Microsoft’s latest operating system is currently at 21.12% market share, while gaining the “old” Windows 10, which, at +1.91% continues to dominate with 73.17% share; Windows systems grew by an average of 0.66%, as opposed to Mac OS, which contracted by 0.71%.
Regarding graphics cards, NVIDIA is still the leader with a 76.19% share, followed by AMD and Intel, at 14.64% and 8.96%, respectively. The most widely used graphics card is still the GeForce GTX 1060 (6.96%) followed by the GTX 1650 and GTX 1050 Ti, while AMD’s top GPU in the ranking is instead the Radeon RX 580 (1.43%) with the RX 6600 XT (0.38% share) at the top of the RDNA 2 series.
Let’s close with processors, another area where positions remain unchanged but with AMD up 2.22% over June, obviously to the detriment of Intel, which still holds 66.26% share, however. Apple chips are also up (by almost 2%) while there is a small but interesting increase in chips with more than eight logical cores; the most widely used CPUs remain the hexa-core, quad – in second place – declines, followed precisely by octa-core, currently at 19.5% .
