Windows 11 reaches a new all-time high share among gamers

The results of the June 2025 Steam Hardware & Software Survey are now available on the official website, showing Windows 11's continuous growth among gamers and the steady decline of Windows 10 ahead of the end of support.

Valve reports that in June 2025, the almost-four-year-old Windows 11 holds nearly 60% of all PC users on Steam. It currently has a market share of 59.84%, which is a 1.54-point increase over the May 2025 results. Windows 10 has 35.69% (-1.31 point), and 64-bit Windows 7 nearly went extinct—only 0.09% of all Steam users who participated in the survey reported using the operating system that Microsoft stopped supporting years ago (the latest Steam client also no longer works in Windows 7).

With Microsoft offering Windows 10 users free security updates for one more year, the outgoing OS is expected to stick around for a while longer on the gaming market and among regular users as well. Worldwide, Windows 11 has nearly caught up to Windows 10, as StatCounter reported earlier.

Overall, 95.67% of the survey participants use Windows on their gaming machines (+0.22 points). Linux is second with 2.57% (-0.12 points), and macOS is third with 1.76% (-0.09 points).

On the hardware side, the most popular PC configuration has 16GB of RAM (43.05%), a 6-core CPU (29.50%), an Nvidia RTX 4060 Laptop graphics card (4.79%), 8GB of VRAM (33.92%), and a 1080p monitor (55.54%). In June, the laptop variant of the RTX 4060 became the most popular GPU on Steam, taking over the desktop RTX 3060 with its 4.42% market share.

Speaking of GPUs, Nvidia holds an overwhelming 74.07% share, while AMD has 17.68%, and Intel is third with 7.88%. Intel remains the most popular CPU vendor with a 59.29% share, while AMD has 40.71%.

You can find more stats on the official Steam Hardware and Software Survey here.

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