AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 XT has finally shown up in Steam’s monthly hardware survey, landing in 25th place with a 1.33% share of users. That is a solid debut for a card that has been on the market long enough to make its absence feel a little awkward, especially since Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5080 is already ahead of it in 23rd place with 1.47%.
The rest of AMD’s latest RDNA 4 family is moving much more slowly. The regular Radeon RX 9070 sits way down in 80th place with 0.18%, unchanged over the past month, while another new Radeon model has entered at 39th with 0.72%. Steam does not say whether that card has 8 GB or 16 GB of memory, and the recently launched Radeon RX 9070 GRE with 12 GB has yet to register at all.
Nvidia still owns Steam’s GPU table
None of this dents Nvidia’s lead. GeForce cards still account for 72.4% of Steam users, down 0.8 percentage points over the month, while Radeon reached 19.1% after a 0.5-point gain and Intel rose to 8.0% with a 0.2-point increase. That is the familiar shape of the PC gaming market: Nvidia dominates the rankings, AMD keeps nibbling away, and Intel is still the newcomer trying to turn curiosity into share.
- GeForce RTX 3060: 4.02%
- Mobile GeForce RTX 4060: 3.99%
- Desktop GeForce RTX 4060: 3.74%
- GeForce RTX 3050: 3.28%
- GeForce RTX 5070: 3.09%
AMD is also closing the CPU gap
The more interesting fight may be on the processor side. Intel’s share slipped to 55.02% in May, down 0.79 percentage points, while AMD rose by the same amount to 44.97%. That’s still Intel’s race to lose, but the gap is now narrow enough that every quarterly product cycle matters, and AMD clearly has momentum on its side.
The open question is whether Steam’s survey will keep turning up more RDNA 4 cards as availability improves, or whether the RX 9070 XT’s debut is the high point for a while. If AMD wants these rankings to look less like a footnote, it will need more than one card with a brief moment in the sun.