The Radeon RX 9070 XT reaches a new milestone in Valve’s Steam Hardware Survey. In August 2026, the share of this graphics card was 1.46%, becoming Most Popular Radeon Models on discrete GPUs identified individually in the survey.
In recent months, growth has been gradual. The RX 9070 XT was 1.35% in June, rose to 1.40% in July, and reached 1.46% in August, thus surpassing the Radeon RX 6600, which has occupied the top spot among AMD’s independent GPUs for some time.
Radeon RX 9070 XT surpasses RTX 3080 Nella Steam Hardware Survey
The Radeon RX 6600 dropped from 0.87% to 0.85% in August, while the newer Radeon RX 9060 XT’s share has reached 0.82%. The Radeon RX 9070’s gap remains larger at 0.20%, highlighting the significant gap between the two Desktop model based on RDNA 4 architecture.
The RX 9070 XT also performs better than some previous-generation NVIDIA cards. The GeForce RTX 3080 is currently at 1.38%, while the GTX 1660 SUPER maintains a slight lead of 1.47%. The latest RTX 5080 and RTX 5070 Ti reached 1.71% and 1.82% respectively. However, the American manufacturer clearly still has an advantage over the most popular NVIDIA cards of the Blackwell generation. GeForce RTX 5070 accounted for 3.77%, followed by RTX 5060 at 3.16%, and RTX 5060 Ti at 2.55%. So the RTX 5070 alone exists in more than twice as many systems compared to the RX 9070 XT.
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However, interpretation of Steam Hardware Survey data must take into account the survey methods used by Valve. The platform appeared to have fixed recognition of RDNA 4-based cards a few months ago, and now Report separately. Therefore, Radeon RX 9070 XT, RX 9070, and RX 9060 XT are no longer grouped under common names, making the information more representative.
The RX 9070 XT results are still a positive sign for AMD, especially considering The card is faster than previous generations of Radeon models. It’s far from the most widespread NVIDIA proposal, but the latest Steam Hardware Survey confirms that the new generation of Radeon is gradually increasing its presence in PCs used by users of the platform.
