What just happened? Valve has released its Steam Hardware Survey results for Jan. In the area of graphics cards, we see that more Ampere products are starting to appear in gamers' machines, with the RTX 3090, RTX 3080, and RTX 3060 Ti now on the list. AMD, meanwhile, has regained the CPU share it lost in December.

Steam'south latest monthly hardware survey shows that the GTX 1060 remains the number one GPU. It'south been the most popular amidst the platform's users since it knocked the GTX 750 Ti off the height spot in Jan 2022. The number of machines rocking the Pascal card has been declining for months, but its nine.75 percentage share keeps the GTX 1060 on pinnacle.

More of Nvidia's Ampere line is making it into the survey results. The excellent RTX 3080 had previously been the only entry, increasing its share every calendar month to its current 0.66 percent figure. It'southward at present joined past the RTX 3060 Ti (0.27 percentage) and RTX 3090 (0.23 percentage). That gives Ampere a 1.16 percent share of all graphics cards.

As usual, Nvidia dominates this expanse; the well-nigh popular AMD card is the Radeon RX 580 in tenth place, while none of the Radeon RX 6000 series have broken into the list yet.

Moving onto CPUs, it was a adept calendar month for AMD. Team cerise's processors are now constitute in 28 percent of all participants' PCs, marking i of its largest-ever monthly increases (3 pct) following an unexpected decline in December.

Elsewhere, 1920 x 1080 remains the most popular monitor resolution by far—66.vii percent—while 1440p declined by 2.2 percent, surprisingly. Windows 10 64-scrap continues to push other versions of the OS out, increasing its share to 91.7 per centum; about people have between 250GB to 499GB complimentary hard bulldoze space, and 16GB remains the most popular corporeality of system RAM.