Steam Hardware & Software Survey July 2021 results: Windows 7 holds the line
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Steam Hardware & Software Survey July 2021results are in, and they’re… well, they’re not earth-shattering. In fact, they’re more or less just a continuation of the trends we sawforming in previous months. For example: The fun of Windows 7 (64-bit) controlling 4.88% of the Steam ecosystem’s OS makeup in June has continued at a steady clip into July, with the big W7 (still 64-bit) now powering 5.48% of the computers owned and operated by Steam-friendly gaming geeks.
Other continuing trends include NVIDIA absolutely obliterating AMD in the GPU market share sector, which should surprise no one given that it’s been that way for a long, long time and nothing momentous has happened to disrupt the status quo when it comes to thebest graphics cards.
AMD was also unable to regain its CPU figures from May, wherein it briefly held over 30% control of the Steam userbase’s CPU makeup. Though July results show AMD inching back up to the 30% line, it’s still not there, meaning over seven out of every ten gamers roll with Intel and there’s nothing the red team can do about it.
VR stats continue their similar monthly trends as well, with the total amount of Steam users with VR headsets having jumped to 2.07%, which is a 0.21% increase over last month. In a shocking upset, Steam users rolling with Sony PlayStation VR units went down by 0.03%, bringing the total amount of Steamers rocking a PSVR headset down to 0.16%, a number that beats out the Pimax 8K’s 0.12% and HTC Vive Elite’s 0.08% shares of the market as of July 2021.
Maybe next month will have spicier results. For now, July 2021’s metrics keep things relatively normal.
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