Steam's Hardware Survery for May 2025 just dropped
How the fuck is the 1650 still that high?

third worlders now make up like 80% of online traffic anon

Where is amd? Kek

>>714159162 (OP)
February looks like it has multiple data errors

>>714159162 (OP)
>not a single 80 or above in the top
no wonder thirdies are constantly crying about optimization

>>714159434
>bro, you need a $2000 gpu to play games that look and play worse than last decade
you're still brown, ranjesh. i don't care what caste you come from, it's all brown.

>>714159162 (OP)
There hasn't been a single game that would require more 1650 in year, so why bother upgrading? Most popular games can be played on integrated graphics anyway.

>>714159313
>Where is amd?
still going with their classic losing strategy of
>look at 70 series nvidia card
>make a card that's worse in every single metric
>sell it for $100 less
they've been doing this since the gtx 970, and it's lost them market share every single year. whoever runs amd is either heavily invested in nvidia, or a fucking retard.

>>714159568
AMD, like Nvidia, are going all in on AI. They have no reason to try until next generation consoles come out.

>>714159162 (OP)
What's the operating system section like?

>>714159778

pcs are holding back gaming

>>714160001
Linux is cooking.

>>714159313
I got asked to take the survey today. Look forward to seeing my fucking ancient RX580 in the results soon!

>>714160081
Unironically yes. There's a lot of little timmy's who now get upset and scream because a CPU intensive game isn't running well on their 11 year old machine. These kinds of retards once were filtered by how slightly more difficult it was to use a PC and to get on the internet, but now they're out en masse and completely overshadow the nerds who once kept PC going forward

>>714160491
I saw a post in a forum once from someone asking a game's devs to change the default key for some action, because apparently he didn't realise that he could change keybinds himself. I guess that's the kind of person who plays on PC now.

>>714160491
A non-rhetorical question: In what ways new games use this CPU power to improve the player experience compared to games 11 years ago?

>>714160803
cool it with the antisemitism

Reminder that only the most brand fanatical steamie weinie drones agree to valve using their data.
t. got the survey and clicked no

>>714161000
oh no, your low tier thirdie pc isn't contributing to the stats. what a shame.

>>714160803
New CPUs have different microarchitectures that make them vastly more efficient because they do a lot of heuristics and optimize instructions. So what once were single threads are now actually split into multiple threads by the CPU itself, rather than developers having to program for it. These people got a reality check when Zen / Intel equivalent rolled around, because all of the sudden new games performed really fucking badly for them, because those games were built around new CPU features. You can make this retarded argument for GPUs too "abloo bloo why do we need anything better than vertex shader v1 since all the games ran fine on windows 95???", no you needed to upgrade to a GPU compatible with vertex shader 2, 3, 4, etc because the games around it were built for those to deliver a better performing game. This is so fucking stupid, like, are you seriously questioning why we don't use horses for commute when they're about the same speed as a car in an urban city?

>literally no one on Earth uses 50
Is it over for Nvidia?

>>714161392
You forgot to answer how that makes games better though.

>>714159162 (OP)
uhmm... Linuxisters where's the PewdiePie boost that I was promised?

>>714159162 (OP)
>geforce 6600gt is not on the list
Is NVIDIA done?

1050tibros...

>>714161000
>7800x3d
>garbage ass 4060ti that chokes on its lackluster memory bandwidth above 1080p
>not even an esports 540hz low settings faggot

>>714159162 (OP)
Poorfags refuse to buy machine for poorfags like consoles and then cry how games run bad with ultra settings on their toaster.

>>714159490
>$2000
>80
Only in your thirdworld shithole

What is Radeon graphics and why are there 2 of them but with a trademark?

>>714160001
>Windows 7: 0.10%

I still use a GTX 1070 8GB

>>714160001
I've recently been using *tips fedora* linux how do they count all the distros, or is mine too unpopular/lumped in with something else?

Stop killing games (with RTX)

>>714159717
are you telling me the only one remaining for gaming graphic cards are Intel?

>>714162018
isn't Steam not even supposed to work on 7? how the hell does this work

In b4 simplified chinese jumped another 27%

>>714159162 (OP)
>PC"masterace"
>Their average specs are even worse than consoles
LMAO

>>714162275
Not supported =/= not working.

>>714160274
I still use a 570 8gb

>>714160001
>Pewdiepie makes a Linux video
>People tweeting that Windows is getting worse and worse and everyday there's people commenting "Linux is better"
>Troonix is still less than 5%
Year of the Linux™ soon lads

>>714162450
Pretty sure the main issue is anti cheat stuff, like, for most users, they want to play multiplayer games, but these anti cheat only works on windows, so people stays on Windows, so developers don't bother to adapt to other platforms (it's the same for Mac too, though Mac also has Apple being hard to work with)
If someone want to play all games, they HAVE to be on Windows. Same with softwares.

>>714162275
It works fine. It has a banner about not being supported in 0 days still. Dont even need to vxkex on or anything

>>714162596
are older version of windows still supported the same way or not?

>>714159162 (OP)
>no XX80's or XX90's
embarrassing steampoors

>>714159162 (OP)
Didn't rtx 50xx cards come out months ago or did I hallucinate that?

>>714162592
>Noooo it's the anti cheat!!! Otherwise Linux would have concordillions of players!!!!! I'm not retarded!!!
Nobody wants to tinker with your proton retardness or use your shit tranny distros, it's not because of an anti cheat that a few games have, retard

>>714162769
Anon did you ever bothered reading what all I was saying in this post?

>>714162592
I moved to Linux because of anti cheat and run anticheat windows games through a VM

I actually went from linux to windows.

>>714159162 (OP)
>almost a tenth of the GPUs only support up to DX8
what the fuck

>>714162320
You can tell it by the Windows 10 numbers, China doesn't use Windows 11

>>714159313
Most of pc out there are either pre build or laptops. Nvidia dominates those markets.

>>714162664
What are you asking? Not supported means they arent officially restricting windows library calls to 7 only for compat or making a specially compiled exe. It works because they havent done that regardless

>>714160491
Those new games don't fucking look any better than the ones that do play on timmys shitbox

>>714163219
Look at resolutions its absolutely nuts. I actually wonder how will MS will pull off win10 death judging how many systems out there are that can't run win11

>>714163273
Win 11 is so bad even compared to 10 ppl will literally eat shit if you put a bigger number on it

>>714163504
This was about CPUs so it's not so much about graphics but there's still the question what exactly devs are doing with that increased power. What I got from the guys reply, if I understood it correctly, is that it mainly just makes the development easier.

>>714159162 (OP)
weak shitter I dont care about pc gaming and got a laptop more power

>>714160638
I recently read about history of WASD system we use right now. Basically it became popular in quake tournaments becouse one guy was using it and doing well.
Before that arrow keys were default. But they sucked after mouse became thing. But this one guy changed his layout to wasd and here we are.
Now we have reached point where players themselves are keeping gayming back. Becouse they suck

>>714159162 (OP)
50% of steam hardware survey is chinese net cafes

>>714161563
Nigger that's .42 of a percent that's pretty good, mac is up too even, people want anything but windows 11
fuck at this rate windows will fall below 95%

>>714159313
who?

>>714164081
Therefore they don't count amirite?

>>714164081
Net cafes are a special client, have they ever confirmed them being counted in these surveys?

>>714164410
>Windows 11 went up by 0.45%
What? Are you retarded? More people downloaded 11 than Loonix

>>714164583
because they keep putting out notices about how they're gonna kill 10, there is still far more lost from windows 10 than added to 11
goverments around the world are looking at tightening their belts too, not long before people start saying why are we paying for windows when there are free alternatives who are much less likely to fuck us in all the ways microsoft does

>>714159313
on reddit echo chamber where amd gpu is winning

>>714163997
If I'm not seeing improvements in graphical quality and feature breadth consummate with the leaps in hardware and software design. Of course I'm going to bitch and I'm not going to stop.

>>714162051
Press help > system information. That will show what your OS is reported as. Fedora is probably very low market share, but maybe the tag is weird and hyperspecific (like each Fedora variant has different tag).

>>714159517
There's doom the dark ages with its mandatory rtx!

>>714164493
Why do you think every so often valve has to manually adjust down the amount of simplified chinese? We sporadically see 30% jumps in a single month so unless 20 million new chinese users created an account in a single month the survey is doing erroneous counting.

>>714162051
>use bleeding edge unstable OS that is just beta for red hat
>wonder why it is niche

>>714160001
2.69%!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>714162051
Fedora is one of the most popular distros
>>714162342
PCs never die and never get shut off like Jewsoles do to their goycattle (you)

poorfags are really fucking up PC gaming advancement

>>714160001
Almost 20% increase for linux. Not bad

>How the fuck is the 1650 still that high?
I can still play most games at 60fps with that card (super variant tho), just need to set the graphics to the minimum

>>714167772
The human eye can't see more than 1080p.

>>714169425
cope.
1080p poorfags are the worst

>>714167772
It's the other way around. High end PCs make developers not feel compelled to optimize.

>>714169742
We dictate the pc gaming scene and we say no u.

>>714169815
Funny, every review section always has poorfags crying that their shitty toaster can't run the game on ultra settings.

>>714159162 (OP)
>"Why don't 3rd worlders spend 5x the minimum wage on a new mid-end computer?"

>>714169815
>games made for high end PCs don't work on my shitbox
I know.

>>714164918
stfu you reddit inhaling nigger I just got a 9070xt to ditch my 1070 ti and am super pleased
your AI girlfriend will never fit on your personal nvidia card, rope now poorfag

>>714170027
You can't even dictate your own money

>>714170027
>most vocal and annoying group thinks it's the most important
now where have I seen this before?

based RX580 chads

>>714159162 (OP)
1080p is enough

>>714162450
how can you cope with linux when it's doing everything windows was meant to do but better
it will be 80% within a decade

>>714170232
>over 50% of all pc gamers
>not important
Sounds like someone consoomed and isn't happy nobody cares.

>>714170267
it was in 2003

>>714170274
For real this time.

>still no interest in 4k
the people have spoken

>>714170337
>Thirdies who can only play f2p and pirate games
Yeah,i'm sure anyone cares

>>714170475
you can't play in 4k with jewvidia holding back the 60 lineup and reserving it for the 80 and 90 class cards

>>714170274
I doubt that. Linux has tons of issues that'll make using it difficult for people who are used to windows, and I don't see those issues disappearing anytime soon. Microsoft would have to brick windows way harder than 11 for any majority of people to become desperate enough to switch.

>>714170090
Take the Robocop Rogue City game for example. The system requirements are insanely high compared to how it looks. This couldn't be the case if developers couldn't rely on high end hardware to compensate for poor optimization.

>>714170670
There needs to be a button that you can click to install Linux and make it your primary OS.
Until that happens, normies won't migrate. It needs to be like switching browser.

>>714170624
This may come as a surprise but you don't need the latest FOTM to enjoy games at 4k.

I only upgraded my video card from an AMD RX 570 4G to a RTX 4060 8GB recently to play FF7 Rebirth which requires D12 "Ultimate". Got the impressions 4060s were bad after what little research I did but this thing is great and I got it for relatively cheap.

>>714159162 (OP)
No wonder why Rockstar isn't in the rush to release their games on pc.

>>714159162 (OP)
Yes, PoorGODS keep putting pressure on AAA slop.

>>714161748
>above 1080p
your eye literally can't see the difference

>>714159313
>>714159568
>>714164482
>>714164918
SAAR NJUDEA IS SO STRONG IN THIRD WORLD THANKS TO AI PORN ON PATREON VILLAGE IS WELL FED SAAAAAAAR FULL SAPPORT SAAAAAR PLEASE DO NOT LOOK AT 5070 VRAM AND BIT BUS SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR

If it works, it works

>>714171494
Radeon is too expensive in India.

>>714160001
>Debian

>>714171742
If you want a stable OS you use debian. Everything else is for fucking about.

4GB graphics card reporting in. 1080p and 30fps are fine. Saves money on the power bill, too.

>>714159162 (OP)

>>714161000
I'm not a steamie weenie and I share my hardware specs when asked.

>>714159313
Third worlders can’t afford hardware so they can only shill for AMD online (until they move to Germany)

>>714171950
Every PC is better than any console.

>>714171828
I'm not saying Debian is bad, but it's not exactly the best distro to use for gaming. The packages and drivers are old.

>>714159162 (OP)
>60 class cards continue and will forever be the plurality of GPUs users own
>Studios refuse to optimize for this target
It's like they want to fail on purpose. It's kind of hilarious

>>714171950
Can the ps5 run midtown madness 2? Checkmate.

>>714171935
A modern low-mid tier card will run the games you're running with the settings you're using at the same fps you're already getting while using far less power.

>>714172096
https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/borderlands/borderlands-4s-pc-system-requirements-need-specs-over-50-percent-of-steam-doesnt-have-so-i-hope-youre-ready-to-upgrade PC brand fanatic fanboy gaming time

>>714172464
Not reading that. Every PC is better than any console.

>>714160001
Is Steam deck "Arch Linux"?

>>714159162 (OP)
Steamies no longer matter anymore. It's the age of Nintendo, baby.

>>714159162 (OP)
No reason to upgrade. Most games suck. Like literally if you bought Switch 1 you'll still get games next year too. GTA 6 isn't out on PC until 6-12 months later. If that's good that might cause people to finally upgrade to something more reasonable. 40-60 series.

>>714160001
YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP YAAAAAAASS

>>714159162 (OP)
>1650
>1060
Why?
3080 or 3070 are literally dirt cheap

>>714173869
because not everyone receives in dollar or euro anon

>>714173116
yeah

>>714159162 (OP)
there are no GPU-intensive games worth playing that would warrant upgrading
there's no reason to throw out perfectly functional and capable hardware just because manufacturers want to keep the mill going forever

>>714173869
Because they still work? Why the fuck wouldn't you stick with it? I even ran games that "require RTX" on my 1650 like FF7 Rebirth just fine with a basic mod.

>>714159162 (OP)
PS5 is stronger than all that

>>714174445
You fucking upgrade or else.

>>714174448
Yeah, but costs more too. You can get a GTX 1650 for $30. A PS5 Slim is $500.

>>714174448
One small problem, champ.

>>714159162 (OP)
970 bros... ww@???

>>714159162 (OP)
poverty. the west is pretty good n ready to completely implode now. it's bound to happen any minute now..

>>714159162 (OP)
>My beloved 4070ti Super isn't listed
Damn. Rare card.

>>714159162 (OP)
>How the fuck is the 1650 still that high?
That's the only thing a lot of people can afford, even in first world countries, since you know, lots of people aren't earning sillicon valley 500k wages.

>>714159568
retard, that's literally how it's supposed to be done. this is literally capitalism 101. if you can't make an identical product or a better product, you do the best you can and then make up for it on price. how do youthink china has become so large now? they make a copycat product that is just good enough and no more, and then charge the acceptably low price for said product. and the vast majority out there are perfectly fine with that. because good enough is often perfectly fine and preferable to fantastic or great. because excellence is always the more expensive option.

>>714159162 (OP)
China, India and SEA. Also probably South Americans on laptops.

>>714160491
you do know that pc gaming is a very expensive hobby, right? it's expensive to always have the latest technogeil.

>>714175382
>you do know that pc gaming is a very expensive hobby, right?
I spent $500 to build my PC 9 years ago and it still plays everything I want it to. Yes it is pricier than a console, but it lasts longer.

>>714174570
https://youtu.be/gWEP1fYdjFg

>>714161000
i click no sometimes and sometimes i agree. it depends on my mood at the time. if the wrong foot gets off the bed that day, i click no.

>>714159162 (OP)
>4060 and 3060 laptop gpu that high
so what are they in desktop equivalent?

>>714174445
To enjoy more games without having to crunch it? I made a jump from 1050ti to 3080 secondhanded
Pretty happy with it and not looking to upgrade anytime soon

>>714159162 (OP)
>once gave steam an okay to a hardware survey decade ago
>have denied it ever since
I will keep being an shit stain on your data sheets and you will like it

>>714161563
it will come the day all WINDOWS games can be played perfectly on linux. so never.

>>714160001
>OSX 1.85%
>Linux 2.69%
Need an edit of the Linux penguin chokeholding the Apple logo

>>714162018
it's honestly completely insane how someone can create this person purely in software now. we take a crazy amount of things for granted these days, bros..remember when the very first version of photoshop was released and andy warhol made a burger painting with it? man... things sure have changed..

>>714175382
It's really not that expensive. I built a computer in like 2015 and used it to play all games until 2025 only upgrading gfx card once for like 400 usd before the PSU blew up while gaming. I reused some parts of that computer to build a new one, but I could have also just spent 200 USD to replace the PSU and continued gaming.

You probably spend more paying for online during 10 years than I spent upgrading.

>>714159313
For some reason AMD chooses to brand everything as a minor variation on 'AMD Graphics' so nothing ever shows up.
It's AMD's fault though, one could feel sympathetic about it 20 years ago, but they're had 20 years to work out how Steam emuerates GPUs.
Even Intel has worked it out better.

>>714159162 (OP)
its important to remember that, of the 27 most played games on Steam, only like 5 of them require a newish GPU to render. most of this shit is free to play laptopware.

>>714160803
A non-rhetorical question: Why do tech illiterate third wordlers ask questions that they don't actually want an answer to, and wouldn't understand an answer to even if they got it? You've already made up your mind and decided that nothing made in the last 10 years is worth playing, so no explanation about what CPUs do with regards to AI, physics, or even just letting you do "old stuff" more efficiently at a higher framerate will satisfy you. You just want someone to say something vaguely tech related so you can say "But i am playing fun game 15 year ago and was fun so new CPU is not needed for game" and pretend you made a coherent point.

League of Legends alone has more users than entire Steam, this chart is only relevant to cum gulping /v/alveniggers, now keep circle jerking about a corporation that will not sell a game because girl in it looks bit too young ( never-mind fact she has massive tits ) You SJW DEI loving faggots need bullet in heads

>>714170624
I bought a 5080 because the 5090 can't really do 4K well so I decided to stay at 1440p for a while longer.

Yes, goyim. The Direct X is a really good program.

>>714176324
>than entire Steam
ESL, opinion discarded.

>>714176041
>Rust top 10
How I miss this game, I quit because I keep getting one tapped by russian or chink hackers

>>714159162 (OP)
You only need to upgrade for AAA slop and why would you want to play that.

>>714159568
AMD gpus only exist so that nvidia doesn't get hit with anti monopoly laws.

>>714159162 (OP)
>3080 not even listed
huh?

>>714173116
>>714174128
its not. You need to go into the details to see Steam Deck. This just shows that base arch is the most popular one nowadays

>>714177227
As it should be.

>>714159162 (OP)
>How the fuck is the 1650 still that high?
No reason to upgrade. It runs all the games that are worth your time.

>>714176527
i have said this for years and will continue saying it: 4k is not truly here yet. it will be in 2028 or something like that, but we're just not there yet. 1440p is the achievable acceptable middle groundfor the masses right now. 4k will not be the acceptable middle ground until at the very least two gpu generations from now...

RTX3060Ti bros, we vibin'

rx6800bros.
We're still the value king.

>>714159162 (OP)
1650 is only 6 years old, there are extremely few games that came out since then that are worth playing, that card can easily clear everything <2019, and of the games that did come out that are worth playing it still runs them if you compromise a little on graphics
why would you drop $1k+ on some new piece of shit card that literally can't run old games because they removed 32 bit physx for a minor improvement in graphics in a small handful of games? Wait 3-4 more years and it'll start to dip once the catalog of worthwhile games it can't run expands

>>714176157
No. I was genuinely considering the possibility that there's something I'm missing. I haven't played 11 years old games recently which might make me fail to appreciate the improvements.

>>714176157
>A non-rhetorical question: Why do tech illiterate third wordlers ask questions that they don't actually want an answer to, and wouldn't understand an answer to even if they got it?
Just so any response can be used as a gotcha and win internet points against people who do know what they are on about, but give opinions/answers said thirdie disagrees with.

See also: why emulator devs have a burning hatred of laptop users.

>>714173869
Lol, my perfectly good 3070 has been sitting in my basement for the last year doing nothing because I was too lazy to put it on eBay and forgot about it.

>>714159568
>whoever runs amd is either heavily invested in nvidia, or a fucking retard.
She's actually cousins with the guy who heads NVIDIA.

You are retarded if you think people still use windows because of games, I am only still on windows because of the executable of the programs I use because even applying patches to ROMs adds another layer of annoyance if I used linux, if every executable had a linux version I would have changed years ago

>>714159162 (OP)
Why are you pocket watching?

>>714159162 (OP)
>How the fuck is the 1650 still that high?
I have been using a 1660 for years now and unless a miracle happens and a game worth buying comes out or my PC dies I wont be uprgrading any time soon.

>>714176872
they added premium servers recently that requires you to have an inventory of $15 or more to join, apparently that decreased the number of cheaters by a lot

>>714160803
Better fps/graphics and improved mod capabilities. Plus, it just feels smoother on the operating system.

>>714189279
>and improved mod capabilities.
Is that a joke?
Modern modding is fucking dogshit compared to what we used to get in the 2000s.

>>714159302
You really, really notice this in comments sections and on social media. It used to be that people were opinionated, stubborn and petty, like Comic Book Guy. Now they're all just stupid, or trying to pull a scam. Smartphones and global internet access initiatives were a mistake. The internet was better even fairly late into the 2000s, when it was mostly Europe, North America and parts of East Asia hanging out on the internet.

>>714159313
here: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam?platform=linux

>>714191515
what scams? i've never seen a single one on here.

>>714161691

>>714164410
>people want anything but windows 11
Windows 11 literally gained more than OSX and Linux COMBINED
Lmao

>>714171950
Yes and my pc is 5 year old. A console can be over a pc just at release because the next gen is always extremely costly. You wait one year, every advantage is lost. My hardware can change and upgrade, yours no.