The freshest Steam survey, and almost a third of their 125 million users have upgraded to Windows 10. 29% of users are running windows 10 on their gaming consoles. 67% users are running machines that support DirectX 12.
54% OF Steam Users Are Using Nvidia GPUs
Many things seem to have changed for Steam users, as Steam reports that 26% of users are using an AMD/ATI GPU, and 54% are using Nvidia GPUs. What’s more, 19% of users are running on Intel integrated GPUs, despite the fact that they’re pretty inefficient.
PC Gamers Are Taking In All the New Technology Available
These figures are a clear show that gamers are taking in new tech like Windows 10 and Nvidia GPUs and DirectX 12. Compared to the previous survey, released in August, it looks like these platforms are getting a lot of love from gamers.
What’s In Store for 2016 In Hardware
Next year will host the launch the launch of the next Nvidia Pascal and the new AMD Arctic Islands GPUs. There will also be additions to Intel’s Broadwell-E and Kaby Lake processors. AMD is also coming out with new Zen FX CPUs. The DisplayPort 1.3 will be enabling a new range of higher refresh HDR monitors with renewed color richness to be launched in 2016.
The kings of hardware sales will probably be the Oculus Rift and VR headsets out of HTC, Sony and Google. It’ll come as no surprise to watch how virtual reality will earn top scores through the next five years.
New Software for 2016 Also Brings High Excitement
The new year brings gamers new low level APIs, like new DirectX 12 enabled game. It will be the perfect time for the platform to showcase its new cross-vendor multi-GPU feature. This is already integrated into Oxide’s Ashes of The Singularity game. The real time strategy title will be launching sometime in the year, and according to testers, the DirectX 12 enabling worked very well.
Global illumination is also becoming a reality. GI hasn’t had a chance to be adopted universally yet, featured only in games like Dirt Showdown through an AMD implementation. But now that the technology has been upgraded, and it’s very possible that GI will be integrated into games that are not only racing titles.
