Thursday, July 3rd 2025
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50-series GPUs Make a Dent in Latest Steam Hardware Survey
NVIDIA's freshly completed GeForce RTX 50 family, powered by the new Blackwell architecture, has begun to register meaningful numbers in Steam's June 2025 Hardware Survey. Since first appearing in May, cards from this lineup, except for the as-yet-unavailable RTX 5050, now account for 3.69% of surveyed systems. Leading the pack among the newcomers, the RTX 5070 grabs nearly 1% of overall share, up substantially from its debut, while the RTX 5080 and RTX 5070 Ti follow closely behind. The more budget‑oriented RTX 5060 Ti and RTX 5060 have also made their mark, and even the top‑end RTX 5090 has registered on enough machines to appear in the survey.
These figures show a swift uptake by desktop gamers eager for improved performance and AI-driven features, even as the tried-and-true RTX 4060 Laptop GPU holds onto its position as the most prevalent NVIDIA part, with just under 5% of the installed base. Meanwhile, AMD's latest Radeon RX 9000 series and Intel's Arc B‑series remain absent from the survey results, suggesting that shipment volumes for those cards have not yet reached the critical mass needed to register with Valve's monthly sampling of millions of Steam users. This demonstrates NVIDIA's continued dominance in add-in board sales, where it has consistently captured over 90% of the market.
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These figures show a swift uptake by desktop gamers eager for improved performance and AI-driven features, even as the tried-and-true RTX 4060 Laptop GPU holds onto its position as the most prevalent NVIDIA part, with just under 5% of the installed base. Meanwhile, AMD's latest Radeon RX 9000 series and Intel's Arc B‑series remain absent from the survey results, suggesting that shipment volumes for those cards have not yet reached the critical mass needed to register with Valve's monthly sampling of millions of Steam users. This demonstrates NVIDIA's continued dominance in add-in board sales, where it has consistently captured over 90% of the market.
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AMD Radeon Graphics 2.05%
AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics 1.99%
AMD AMD Custom GPU 0405 0.45%
AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics 0.4%
AMD Radeon Graphics (RADV VANGOGH) 0.35%
AMD Radeon (TM) Graphics 0.29% (second one)
AMD Radeon Vega 3 Graphics 0.23%
Other 9.45%
Some of the above I can guess but the Steam Survey seems to be unable to identify some AMD graphics correctly. So this statement:Cannot be made if AMD graphics are not being identified correctly.
There are no 9070 9070xt near msrp sadly, i ended up buying the 5070 for 610$
"Other" is of course the catch-all for all GPUs not popular enough to be listed sperately.
So, the paltry amount of RX 9000 GPUs that have been sold would be grouped under "other."
As an interesting aside, if you look at the Linux-specific numbers, you find that the Steam Deck models comprise 40% of all Steam users on Linux. Not very encouraging for Linux adoption when 40% of your userbase is on an extremely niche handheld.
Are desktop gamers eager for AI-driven features? Wasn't there a TPU survey awhile back that indicated otherwise? Maybe I imagined it...
Custom GPU 0405 and RADV VANGOGH are exclusively Steam Decks, btw.
AMD is actually more expensive where I live and I do use Nvidia's feature set whenever possible so AMD would have to be much cheaper for me to even consider at this point.
After selling my 2 and half years old 3060 Ti the upgrade cost me around 500$ so I'm all good.:) 'We do have 27% VAT where I live so the prices are insane by default so I'm lucky that I even got this deal'
I recognize the 5070 Ti is arguably a better product which I'd have considered if I could get it close to list price but that wasn't an option whereas the 5070 was available much closer to list, in addition to simply being less expensive. Not many 70 Ti level products make it high in the Steam surveys, rarely does anything outside of the 50/60 make it even vaguely close to the top.
those amd gpus could be also from e.g. my ryzen pro 4650u laptop.
steam://takesurvey/1/
Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't
If you look at the Steam Deck's System page, it shows the "Video Card" as "AMD Radeon Graphics (RADV VANGOGH)". It shows "AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics" when you manually install the AMD driver in Windows on a Steam Deck.
On a Lenovo Legion Go S with a Z1 Extreme, the video card shows up as "AMD Radeon Graphics (RADV GFX1103_R1)", where GFX1103_R1 coincides with the first revision of the 780M.
It's a trivial/minimal thing, but this is not Steam's fault for not being able to identify hardware properly. It will always pull data from the installed driver.
We know all know NVIDIA dominate when it comes to sheer numbers so no surprises really. I'm certainly enjoying my RX 9070 XT regardless, very impressed with it.
In areas focused on games people want the most nvidia their money can buy and all the AI stuff is great. People also like the features of their GPU outside of gaming. Or they game on a potato and care about games like DOTA and play AAA on consoles.
Wow. No 6800 XT, 5070, 4060 Ti, 7700 XT, even WX 5100 or M2000.
Nope here ya go Steam: you wanted ancient Intel Integrated Graphics, you got 'em.
For a given budget people generally buy the better product.