More than 50% of Steam users have a CPU of at least 6 cores

It is no secret that today the most popular CPUs among gamers are those with 6 cores or more. Both the Ryzen 5 and the Core i5 have this number of cores, and in fact AMD’s Ryzen 5000 line no longer even includes quad-core models, so these CPUs with 6 cores or more gradually became popular. What is surprising is the number of users who are upgrading to these new CPUs, since currently more than 50% of Steam users use a CPU with at least 6 cores, showing that four cores are already becoming history.

As shown by the December Steam Hardware Survey, 33.25% of users have a 6-core CPU and 16.78% of users have an 8-core CPU, adding only between these categories 50.03%, a number that it grows even more when adding the small percentages of the categories of 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 24 and 32 cores, showing the dominance of CPUs with at least 6 cores.

Even with this dominance, the 4-core category is still the most popular at 35.34%, although it is steadily falling, while the 6-core category is steadily rising at 33.25%, so it should come as no surprise that in two or three months the 6-core category is the most popular.

Other interesting facts from the Steam hardware survey

• Intel’s CPU market share grew by 0.82% during December. 69.27% ​​of users use an Intel CPU, while 30.71% of users use an AMD CPU.
• 76.83% of users use Nvidia GPUs, 14.45% use AMD GPUs, and 8.51% use Intel GPUs.
• The GTX 1060 remains the most popular GPU on Steam: 8.19% of users use it. The 14 most used GPUs are from Nvidia, AMD just came in at #15 with the RX 580 having 1.54%.
• Of the current AMD and Nvidia series, Nvidia’s most popular GPU is RTX 3070 at 1.94%, while AMD’s most popular GPU is RX 6700 XT at 0.19%.
• Windows 11 continues to grow and is already in 10.15% of systems. Windows 10 is in 81.74% of systems and Windows 7 in 3.24%.
• 47.43% of users have 16GB of RAM, 21.96% have 8GB, and only 13.72% have more than 16GB.

What do you think about the enormous growth that CPUs with 6 cores or more are having in the gaming industry? How many cores does your CPU have?