AMD has just recorded its largest GPU market share on the Steam Survey for years, but the increase has nothing to do with the company’s latest AMD Radeon RX 9070-series graphics cards. While Nvidia is still the undisputed king of PC gaming GPUs when it comes to the survey, with the top 13 GPUs all being GeForce models, AMD has now increased its share of the results to 16.9%, with Nvidia on 75%.
On the face of it, that’s a massive increase compared to the paltry 11.5% AMD recorded in the February Steam Survey, but last month’s result appears to be an anomalous spike, with this month’s result more in line with the preceding few months. Even so, that’s the best result for AMD in this survey for years, beating the 16.4% in the January 2025 survey. What’s interesting, though, is that it isn’t AMD’s best graphics card models that are leading the charge here, but its integrated GPUs.
Two AMD entries are now sitting in the top 15 GPUs – AMD Radeon Graphics and AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics, which both have the same meaning – an unnamed GPU that’s integrated into a CPU, most likely in laptops or small form factor PCs. Comparatively, the company’s very latest Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT GPUs are nowhere to be seen on the survey yet, with the first discrete AMD GPU on the survey being the aging Radeon RX 6600 all the way down at number 30. The first of AMD’s Radeon RX 7000-series GPUs to appear, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX, is languishing right down in 48th place.
This shows the huge game of catch-up that AMD is going to have to play if it wants to properly take a decent slice of the gaming GPU pie from Nvidia. As a point of comparison, the RTX 4060 desktop and laptop GPUs are both in the top ten on the Steam Survey, as is the RTX 4060 Ti, while the RTX 4070 is at number 11.
We found that AMD finally has a really solid offering in our Radeon RX 9070 XT review, though, with its fast performance and 16GB of VRAM making it a better buy than the RTX 5070, as long as you can find 9070 XT stock, of course. The new AMD GPUs have outsold previous Radeon launches by 10x, according to the company, and if it can keep up that momentum, we may eventually see the company taking back a bigger slice of the Steam Survey.
At the moment, though, it’s AMD’s decision to buy ATi all those years ago and integrate proper GPUs into x86 CPUs that appears to be paying dividends. The company’s CPUs with integrated GPUs are commonly found in budget laptops and the best mini gaming PC designs, as well as both the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. When it comes to separate graphics cards, though, Nvidia remains incredibly far ahead on the Steam Survey – AMD has a long way to go here.
If you’re interested in how all the latest GPUs perform, check out our full Radeon RX 9070 review, where we take AMD’s new mid-range GPU for a spin, as well as our RTX 5070 review, where we see whether multi frame gen makes it worth considering Nvidia’s new mid-range contender, assuming you can find 5070 stock anywhere.
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