number of CPUs per computer (isometric view)
Above: visualisation of the "Number of CPUs per computer" graph from the Steam Hardware Survey.

Valve has released the Steam Hardware and Software Survey results for June 2026, showing how Steam users have evolved over the last month using randomised sampling. While last month saw encouraging results for AMD against Nvidia, this month's outlook was rather more flat, with more movement in terms of storage space, OS, resolution and language. Here are the morsels we picked out.

First, the effects of the current RAM and storage crisis were easy to see, with total number of users with more than 1TB of storage space dropping below the 50 percent mark following a 0.7 percent drop, while the 750GB to 999GB category (which includes 1TB drives) grew by roughly the same amount to reach a quarter of all users. Similarly, a 16GB RAM count is re-establishing itself as the new normal, with 42 percent of users after a half percentage point rise. 32GB is the second-most common allocation, at 37 percent, while 64GB is in a distant third at four percent; both saw fractional falls.

Components less affected by the current pricing surge saw more normal growth, eg six-core CPUs (28 percent) losing 0.4 percentage points in favour of matching rises from 14-core (five percent) and 16-core (six percent) CPUs. Similarly, we saw ancient 2GB, 3GB and 4GB VRAM GPUs (12 percent combined) lost around half a percentage point in favour of 6GB (seven percent), 12GB (13 percent) and 16GB (25 percent) GPUs.

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In the OS space, Windows 11 has now reached more than 70 percent of users after a 0.7 percent rise, with corresponding 0.4 percent losses from Windows 10 (24 percent of users) and 0.3 percent losses from Linux (four percent of users). It'll be interesting to see if the number of SteamOS users rises with the release of the Steam Machine.

Monitor evolution is also continuing on pace, with pretty much straight replacement of the classic 1080p standard (51 percent) with 2560x1440 and 2560x1600 (27 percent combined) by just under one percentage point.

Finally, the number of simplified Chinese language users grew by 2.3 percent, with smaller 0.1 percent rises for traditional Chinese and Korean; English saw the greatest reduction at 1.3 percent but Spanish and Russian language users also dropped by 0.3 percent. At 24 percent, simplified Chinese is the second most popular language after English at 38 percent.

What do you make of the survey results? Are there any interesting stories in the data that we missed? Let me know in the comments below.

[source store.steampowered.com]