June 2016 Steam Hardware Survey: now with more VR
Valve has its latest Steam Hardware Survey numbers up, and for the most part, they show that past trends are continuing. Windows 10 adoption is still on the rise: 45% of Steam users are now on Windows 10 64-bit. That number is up by 3.4% from May. Quad-core CPU adoption is rising too, albeit slowly-46% of respondees have CPUs with four physical cores, versus 47.2% with two. Intel still dominates the CPU sockets of over three-quarters of Steam users, while Nvidia GPUs occupy a PCIe slot in more than half of those folks' machines.
Valve's preliminary information on VR headset adoption is perhaps most interesting among the numbers it's collected. Apparently, two-thirds of VR users on Steam are using a Vive. No doubt ready supplies of the headset are a key driver of sales for HTC, ...