Valve Hardware Survey
Valve Hardware Survey
While launching Steam today, Valve Hardware Survey appeared. Completing it revealed a link showing updated survey outcomes. It caught my attention because it tracked various metrics such as operating systems, VR hardware, GPUs, and CPUs. The only puzzling part was a section displaying CPU core counts as percentages of installed cores. I believe they’re showing the number of physical cores rather than actual CPUs—most users don’t have nearly 46% of their systems with four physical CPUs. Interestingly, we can observe a drop in dual-core availability by -0.61% between July and August 2016, while the trend for four-core CPUs improved by +0.55%. In the GPU category, DX12 GPUs saw a slight increase (+1.02%), and graphically, Team Green (nVidia) leads with 57.57%, followed by Red Team (ATI) at 24.44%, with Intel in third place at 17.56%. Full details are available at the provided link: http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/
Seems like we're already in October. Maybe it's better to hold off until the next one arrives.
It frustrates me that I haven’t received any of these survey prompts on my AMD system, yet all three Nvidia laptops do?
It seems they might be targeting Nvidia supporters to boost their representation relative to AMD users in the data.
So, me and some others decided to "recreate" the Steam hardware Survey build... THIS is what the steam hardware would give you (best parts we could get) PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Celeron G1620 2.7GHz Dual-Core Processor ($39.99 @ SuperBiiz) Motherboard: Biostar H61MGV3 Micro ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($39.99 @ SuperBiiz) Memory: Team Vulcan 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($33.99 @ Newegg) Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 320GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($29.15 @ Amazon) Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 970 4GB Video Card ($259.88 @ OutletPC) Case: Rosewill FBM-01 MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($24.99 @ Newegg) Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply ($36.89 @ OutletPC) Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit ($85.70 @ My Choice Software) Monitor: AOC E2429SWHE 23.6" 60Hz Monitor ($99.99 @ Best Buy) Total: $650.57 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-10-01 15:31 EDT-0400 This is what building it yourself can get you PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor ($110.88 @ OutletPC) Motherboard: ASRock H110M-HDS Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($51.99 @ SuperBiiz) Memory: Avexir Core Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($39.99 @ Newegg) Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 320GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($29.15 @ Amazon) Video Card: Sapphire Radeon RX 470 4GB Video Card ($184.99 @ Newegg) Case: Fractal Design Core 1100 MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($26.99 @ NCIX US) Power Supply: EVGA 430W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply ($33.49 @ SuperBiiz) Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit ($85.70 @ My Choice Software) Monitor: AOC i2369V 23.0" 60Hz Monitor ($99.99 @ Best Buy) Total: $663.17 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-10-01 15:32 EDT-0400 PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: AMD Athlon X4 880K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor ($84.99 @ SuperBiiz) Motherboard: ASRock FM2A88M PRO3+ Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard ($56.89 @ OutletPC) Memory: Team Vulcan 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($33.99 @ Newegg) Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 320GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($29.15 @ Amazon) Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 3GB Mini Video Card ($199.00 @ B&H) Case: Fractal Design Core 1100 MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($26.99 @ NCIX US) Power Supply: EVGA 430W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply ($33.49 @ SuperBiiz) Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit ($85.70 @ My Choice Software) Monitor: AOC i2369V 23.0" 60Hz Monitor ($99.99 @ Best Buy) Total: $650.19 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-10-01 15:35 EDT-0400
Yes, there are physical CPU cores, including a 6600K and a 6700K that each contain four cores.