{"id":738245,"date":"2026-06-15T14:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T14:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/738245\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T14:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T14:46:07","slug":"amd-radeon-rx-9070-xt-finally-appears-in-steam-hardware-survey-not-far-behind-rtx-5080","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/738245\/","title":{"rendered":"AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT finally appears in Steam Hardware Survey, not far behind RTX 5080"},"content":{"rendered":"

After years of absence, AMD\u2019s Radeon RX 9070 XT has appeared in May\u2019s Stream Hardware Survey, slotting behind Nvidia\u2019s RTX 5080. Despite taking first place among AMD\u2019s RDNA 4-based GPUs, the RX 9070 XT only manages to claim 25th place. Even so, that\u2019s much better than before when it was nowhere to be seen.<\/p>\n

Released back on March 6, 2025, the RX 9070 XT<\/a> is AMD\u2019s flagship GPU within its latest RDNA 4 architecture. Despite being more than a year old, the GPU has only just made it onto Steam\u2019s Hardware Survey, which is based on data collected from a random set of users. The GPU hit the ground running with its first entry, claiming a 1.35% share, putting it ahead of any other named Radeon card, and slightly behind Nvidia\u2019s RTX 5080 with its 1.52% share. The only AMD product that represents a larger percentage is the generic \u201cAMD Radeon Graphics,\u201d a name often used for integrated GPUs, which account for 1.89% of the measured market.<\/p>\n

Keeping with discrete GPUs, the next in line for AMD is the RX 6600 at 32nd place with 0.90% share, followed by the RX 9060 XT<\/a> in 39th place with 0.72% share \u2013 again, this is the latter\u2019s first appearance on the survey, although it doesn\u2019t differentiate between 8GB and 16GB variants of this card. As for the RX 9070 non-XT, we need to go all the way down to the 90th position to find it and its 0.18% share. For comparison, Nvidia\u2019s most popular GPU is the five-year-old RTX 3060 with a 4.02% share, trailed closely by the RTX 4060 laptop at 3.99%.<\/p>\n

Between its integrated and dedicated graphics, all architectures combined, AMD controls 19.13% of the surveyed market. In contrast, Nvidia controls a whopping 72.42%, followed by Intel with 8.05% \u2013 a big part of which comes from its Iris Xe iGPUs.<\/p>\n

As for why it took this long for the RX 9070 XT and 9060 XT to show up in Steam\u2019s data, there are two possibilities. First, it\u2019s just a matter of change, as the samples for each month are picked at random, so perhaps none of them had this GPU. This seems unlikely, though, given the large share of users suddenly owning these GPUs, and their complete absence in previous surveys. <\/p>\n

The second possibility is that Steam\u2019s detection system was malfunctioning, which wouldn\u2019t be surprising, as it has already had problems detecting VRAM capacity on some systems. It\u2019s possible that on systems where both the iGPU and a discrete AMD GPU are enabled, the iGPU can be detected instead of the main dedicated GPU, which in some cases could be an RX 9070 XT. Indeed, the fact that the share for AMD Radeon Graphics has decreased from 2.42% to 1.89% in the space of a few days, suggests that the 9070 XT and 9060 XT account for some of this difference.<\/p>\n

Regardless of the reason, we must also keep in mind that this survey isn\u2019t an absolute representation of real-world market share. For instance, any machines that don\u2019t have Steam installed aren\u2019t included, as well as any users who opted out of the Steam Survey, or who weren\u2019t logged in when Steam was looking for responses. It offers a quick way to identify shifts in gamers\u2019 preferences over time, rather than accurate market share figures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After years of absence, AMD\u2019s Radeon RX 9070 XT has appeared in May\u2019s Stream Hardware Survey, slotting behind…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13267,64,63,40170,143570,105],"class_list":["post-738245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-amd","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-gpu","tag-radeon","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}