- AMD’s RX 9070 XT GPU Finally Appears in Steam Hardware Survey
- Starting in May 2026, it suddenly becomes the most popular AMD GPU
- It has 1.33% market share, but Nvidia is still far ahead of AMD overall
While Nvidia’s current focus is certainly not on its gaming graphics cards, it still has the desktop GPU market firmly in its hands, although things could be looking up for rival AMD.
As reported by TweakTown, the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT is suddenly the most popular AMD GPU, according to Valve’s latest Steam hardware survey. In May 2026, the 9070
As always, it’s worth noting that Valve’s Steam surveys are only a limited view of the entire market. Of course, not everyone uses Steam, and the survey is limited to a relatively small segment of the platform’s players. That said, Valve’s survey results are an interesting look at the state of hardware and software popularity.
The popularity of the RX 9070
What is more surprising is why this GPU was not present in Steam’s GPU rankings until now. TweakTown theorizes that the sudden appearance of the 9070 XT could be due to recent survey updates on how GPUs are ranked, which is a possibility.
It’s still a one-sided battle.
With the GPU market still in disarray due to the RAM crisis and its impact on video RAM, both the Radeon RX 9070 XT and 9060 They’re not as cheap as Nvidia’s lower-end RTX 5000 series GPUs, but these Radeon graphics cards are still affordable and offer much better performance.
Still, it’s hard to see Nvidia’s GeForce GPUs falling out of favor anytime soon, and they remain clearly dominant in the desktop realm. Team Green’s DLSS upscaling technology remains superior to AMD and Intel equivalents, and really impresses in image quality and performance.
Nvidia’s RTX 3060 still leads as the most popular GPU, as it has for years in Steam’s survey results, but it’s good to see Team Red’s latest GPU lineup finally putting up a fight, even if the competition remains very one-sided.
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