Tuesday, December 2nd 2025

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Overcomes RTX 4070 in Steam Survey Rankings

NVIDIA's newest GeForce RTX 5070 "Blackwell" GPU has surpassed the RTX 4070 "Ada" in the latest Steam Hardware Survey, achieving a 2.23% share for November 2025, compared to the RTX 4070's 2.16%. With +0.35% month-on-month (MoM) gain, this makes the RTX 5070 the most widely used RTX 50 series card on the Steam platform so far and represents the largest MoM share increase among NVIDIA's new generation offerings during that period. This result is significant as it provides one of the final insights into PC hardware trends for 2025, offering a near-year-end view of how recent GPU launches have been embraced by the gaming community.

The overall Steam data continues to show NVIDIA's dominance in discrete GPU usage, with a 73.83% market share among surveyed Steam users, while AMD and Intel hold 18.05% and 7.74%, respectively. The top positions on the platform are still occupied by a mix of laptop and desktop models, led by the RTX 4060 Laptop at 4.44%. AMD's latest RDNA 4-based Radeon RX 9000 series have yet to make a significant impact in the survey, indicating their share is minimal for now. NVIDIA's progression from 40-series generation to 50-series generation seems to be more pronounced within the gaming community, as the change of share seems to happen faster than with AMD.
The extent to which the RTX 5070's lead grows will depend on pricing trends, availability, and holiday deals, as well as any counteroffers from AMD that might influence buyers before the year ends. The rest of the RTX 50 family has also seen incremental gains, with the 5060 and 5060 Ti showing measurable adoption, indicating that the RTX 50-series generation is gaining momentum.
Source: Valve
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4 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Overcomes RTX 4070 in Steam Survey Rankings

#1
LastDudeALive
Makes sense. Ada was great, but for people who'd spent $1300 getting a 3070 in the middle of supply-chain and crypto issues, it was probably not worth it to upgrade right away. But now, they can get a decent performance bump at a significantly cheaper price, and have MFG.
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HOkay
It's such a shame that the market is just getting more & more monopolistic. AMDs 9000 series is actually really good, it's a shame it hasn't bumped their market share more so we get a bit more balance & meaningful competition in the space.
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Hecate91
Interesting how users went from one 12GB to another 12GB GPU, I guess they believed the "4090 performance" claim lol.
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LastDudeALive
Hecate91Interesting how users went from one 12GB to another 12GB GPU, I guess they believed the "4090 performance" claim lol.
No, there is absolutely no implication that anyone sold their 4070 and bought a 5070. This is likely almost entirely driven by people with RTX 20 and 30 series cards who, after spending $1000+ on GPUs during COVID/Crypto, didn't find an immediate upgrade to RTX 40 to be worth it. But now, several years later, the 50 series is good value, especially the 5070.

If you look at the GPUs with the biggest decline in share (which isn't necessarily an indication of absolute number shift, but still helpful), they're mostly GTX 16, RTX 20, and RTX 30 cards.
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