Steam Survey Shows 16GB Memory Back On Top As 32GB Share Falls
Valve's October 2026 Steam Hardware & Software Survey shows 16GB of memory as the most common configuration at 41.42%, up 3.60 percentage points, while 32GB fell 5.16 points to 37.06%.
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Why it matters
The October survey is the first since the 32GB lead to show mainstream Steam machines stepping back toward smaller memory and storage configurations, a shift Tom's Hardware links to AI-driven parts shortages reaching gaming PCs.
Key Facts
- 16GB was the most common memory capacity in the October 2026 Steam survey at 41.42%, up 3.60 points from 37.82%.
- The 32GB share fell 5.16 points to 37.06% after exceeding 16GB the previous month.
- Users with more than 1TB of total storage fell 4.68 points to 48.62%, while 750GB-999GB rose 2.36 points to 25.07%.
- Windows 11 64-bit reached 72.51% usage, up 1.17 points.
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 remained the top graphics card at 3.62%, ahead of the RTX 5070 at 3.56%.
Users with more than 1TB of storage dropped 4.68 points to 48.62%, with 750GB-999GB rising 2.36 points. Windows 11 64-bit sits at 72.51%, and the RTX 3060 remains the top graphics card at 3.62%.
Windows 11 64-bit climbed 1.17 percentage points to 72.51% of surveyed systems. Under the hood, Intel held 52.63% of CPU share against AMD's 47.37%, a gap the survey puts at about 5 points, and NVIDIA kept 72.92% of graphics card share with AMD at 18.72% and Intel at 7.92%. The RTX 3060 stayed on top at 3.62%, ahead of the RTX 5070 at 3.56%, the RTX 4060 Laptop GPU at 3.40% and the RTX 4060 at 3.32%. Even the newest cards lost ground: the RTX 5070 dropped 2.30 points, the RTX 5060 Ti 1.32 points and the RTX 5060 1.23 points.
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