An AMD graphics card is gaining popularity among players on Steam. Players benefit in the long term from the success that AMD is celebrating with the RX 9070 XT.
The Steam Survey shows every month which hardware players use on PC. This is important because Steam data is often used as a rough market indicator for real gaming hardware.
In the latest Steam data there is one exciting fact: AMD’s RX 9070 XT has made it onto the list and has a strong percentage growth (+ 1.24 %) like no other graphics card.
By comparison: other graphics cards are gaining much smaller shares: the directly competing RTX 5070 has gained + 0.06 percent, while the RTX 5060 Ti has managed 0.14 percent.
Only the smaller Radeon RX 9060 XT from AMD has gained similarly strong (+ 0.73 %).
AMD gains market share against Nvidia
Why is this exciting? Nvidia has dominated the statistics on Steam for years. The fact that the RX 9070 XT already ranks 25th among all GPUs is a good signal for the spread of the card, even if Nvidia continues to clearly dominate overall shares.
At the same time, AMD’s GPU share is rising from a low of 10.6% to 19.1%, reaching its highest level in at least two years.
With the 9070 (XT), AMD hit a real bullseye in 2025: The new generation has been praised by testers and with FSR 4, it could also gain ground against DLSS.
What does this mean for players? In the long term, players benefit when AMD succeeds with a card like the RX 9070, as real competition puts pressure on prices, performance, and product policy. When a manufacturer visibly gains market share, Nvidia has to respond more strongly — for example with better price-performance ratios, more VRAM, faster launches, or more aggressive price reductions.
- More price pressure in the mid and upper-class segment.
- More selection of cards with good price-performance ratios.
- Potentially better driver support and quicker reactions to weaknesses, because AMD is under scrutiny.
- Less risk of a manufacturer controlling the market too much and keeping prices high.
MyMMO editor Benedikt Schlotmann says: Competition stimulates business, and this applies to graphics cards as well. AMD is becoming more visible in the gaming PC market, and this is usually a good development for customers. And even if you would never buy a graphics card from AMD, you also benefit from strong competition.
Because if an RX 9070 XT is doing well in many shops and sells strongly, Nvidia cannot permanently charge high prices for comparable cards without losing customers to AMD. This competitive pressure is advantageous for you.
AMD is now surprisingly bringing back its popular and extremely successful Ryzen CPU, the Ryzen 7 5800x3D to the market. This could be worthwhile for many players: If you missed upgrading your old gaming PC, AMD will soon offer you the best opportunity
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