- The RX 9070 makes its first-ever appearance on the Steam Hardware Survey.
- It holds a 0.21% share among all Steam users.
- RTX 3060 still leads the chart, and 6.53% of total Steam users still rock the now-nearly-5-year-old GPU.
In 2025, we finally saw the latest generation of graphics cards that we had been waiting for since 2022. NVIDIA debuted the RTX 50 series in February 2025, while AMD followed suit a little later with the RX 9000 series. Although NVIDIA was ahead of the curve this time, it did not meet its sales targets because the RTX 50 series did not deliver a significant improvement over the RTX 40 series.
On the other hand, AMD’s sales were greatly above its projections. More than half a year has passed, but we are finally seeing these sales figures reflected in the new Steam hardware survey, with the AMD RX 9070 appearing in the latest Steam hardware survey.
Why it matters: AMD has lagged behind Nvidia for years now in the GPU department. Team Red was finally able to catch up to the rival with the latest GPU releases, and the competition will only get better beyond this point.
With Blackwell GPUs expensive, in short supply, and facing other problems of their own, the RX 9000 GPUs were the obvious choice for most, offering strong specs and good value for money.
Specifically, the RX 9070 XT became one of Radeon’s best-selling graphics cards of all time. Given its popularity, we’d expect to see it in the Steam hardware poll, yet it doesn’t appear. Instead, we have the RX 9070, which, despite its lower popularity, already accounts for 0.22%.
Having been omitted from Steam’s Hardware Survey earlier in May this year, it finally emerged in the December list, now ranking alongside the RX 5500 XT, which is also making its debut.
A 0.22% share isn’t bad for the RX 9070, especially because the RTX 5090 is somewhat higher at 0.6%, representing a 0.24% gain. Moreover, its debut share is still higher than that of previous GPUs, such as the RX 7900 GRE (0.17%) and the RTX 4090 Laptop (0.18%).
Looking at the list of most popular graphics cards from the December Steam Hardware Survey, RTX 3060 regains the 1st spot, with a 6.53% hold, and deranks the RTX 4060 back to the second spot with a 5.85% share.
The list is then followed by RTX 4060 with 5.84% and the RTX 3050 with 4.53%, despite being an entry-level card. Following that, we see the GTX 1650, which is even less powerful at 4.25%, and it’s all AMD until we reach the ninth position with 3.49%.
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