AMD's Radeon RX 9070 XT GPU is more popular than you may think at least according to Steam's latest survey

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Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:57:03 +0000

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The GPU market is still dominated by Nvidia despite its recent focus on AI, but AMD's flagship Radeon GPU is putting up a decent fight.

FULL STORY ======================================================================Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Threads Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter AMD's RX 9070 XT GPU is finally in the Steam hardware survey As of May 2026, it's suddenly the most popular AMD GPU It has a 1.33% market share, but Nvidia is still way ahead of AMD overall While Nvidia 's current focus certainly isn't on its gaming graphics cards, it still has the desktop GPU market firmly in its grasp although things might 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 . As of
May 2026, the 9070 XT has leapt to 1.33% of Steam's market share, placing it above the likes of Nvidia's GeForce RTX 4070 Ti (whereas previously the AMD card failed to register at all in the survey). As always, it's worth noting that Valve's Steam surveys are only a limited perspective on the whole
market. Not everyone runs Steam, of course, and the survey is limited to a relatively small slice of gamers on the platform. That said, Valve's survey results are an interesting glimpse into the state of hardware and software popularity. Latest Videos From Watch full video here:

The RX 9070 XT's popularity shouldn't come as a huge surprise, considering
its raw performance capabilities, with the additional benefit of FSR 4 ( FSR Redstone ) providing solid image quality and performance when upscaling.

What's more surprising is why this GPU wasn't present in Steam's GPU rankings at all before now. TweakTown theorizes that the sudden appearance of the 9070 XT could be down to recent updates to the survey regarding how GPUs are classified, which is one possibility. You may like The best AMD graphics
cards 2026 Gigabyte Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC Ice 16GB review: excellent performance from a standout graphics card The best graphics card 2026 Still a one-sided battle (Image credit: Future / John Loeffler) Since the GPU market is still in disarray due to the RAM crisis and its impact on video RAM, both the Radeon RX 9070 XT and 9060 XT (which is also now present among Valve's
May survey results) are arguably the most value-packed GPUs available.
They're not as cheap as Nvidia's low-end RTX 5000 series GPUs, but these Radeon graphics cards are still affordable and provide 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 arena. Team Green's
DLSS upscaling technology remains superior to AMD and Intel 's equivalents, and it really impresses on the image quality and performance fronts. Get
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Nvidia's RTX 3060 is still leading as the most popular GPU, as it has for years in the Steam survey results, but it's good to see Team Red's latest GPU line-up putting up a fight finally even if the competition is still very one-sided. Follow TechRadar on Google News and add us as a preferred source
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