The latestSteam Hardware surveyfrom April shows Nvidia’sRTX 50 seriesGPUs making their first appearance almost four months after launch. Conversely, despite their apparentretail popularity, AMD’sRX 9000GPUs are nowhere to be found on the list. While the absence of RDNA 4 is confusing, it might all boil down to a lack of adequate supply at MSRP.
The April Steam Hardware survey reflects a return to normality after theprevious surveywas skewed by an unexplained surge of Chinese users, knocking several statistics off the charts. Typical figures for operating systems, system specifications, and CPU/GPU vendor, among others, remained unchanged. Nvidia still reigns supreme in the GPU market with a 74.39% share, while Intel leads the CPU arena at 60.35%, closely followed by AMD.
Several new GPUs have gained traction among gamers, per the Steam Hardware survey, including Nvidia’sRTX 5080(0.38%),RTX 5070 Ti(0.28%), andRTX 5070(0.38%). The RTX 5090 being excluded from this list is self-explanatory, as that GPU is far out of the reach of the average user. After exhaustively searching the list, we found no GPU from AMD’s RX 9070 family. That’s quite telling since this has recently been one ofAMD’s most successful GPU launches, coupled with Nvidia’s many shortfalls this generation.Thereisa new AMD GPU on the survey, though — new to the survey statistics, at least. AMD’s RX 7800 XT appears for the first time in the April 2025 figures, landing at 0.27% (the same as the 5070 Ti). The RX 7900 XT, 7900 GRE, 7600 XT, and 7600 all remain missing in action, along with virtually all Intel Arc GPUs (other than the integrated “Arc Graphics” that sits unchanged month-to-month at 0.22%).
While the Steam Hardware survey does not encompass every user, it still gives us a general idea about consumer mindshare and sentiment. Remember that Nvidia’s GPUs have been out longer than AMD’s, so we might see the RX 9070 XT spring up a month or two later. The obvious elephant in the room is price, as most GPUs are unavailable at MSRP (except for someEuropean regions). This also extends to AMD’s RDNA 4, with pre-builts carrying the best value proposition, explaining why gamers might be willing to spend a bit extra and go Team Green.
The survey shows more Steam users supposedly have an RTX 5080 than an RX 6600 XT. This shows how gamers are still inclined towards Nvidia despite the evidenthardware defects, initialinstability problems, fake MSRPs, andmelting power connectors— you know the deal. AMD’s motive with RDNA 4 was to penetrate the mainstream market with powerful yet cost-effective GPU solutions, and theRX 9070 seriesseems to have achieved that goal, assuming you can buy one at MSRP.
The most common GPUs in the Steam Hardware survey are budget-oriented 50-series and 60-series, as that price point hits the sweet spot for most gamers. With prices falling slowly but steadily, AMD will need to go one step ahead with itsRX 9060 XTGPUs, as that’s where the bulk of the market lies. Rumors still suggest that AMD will segment its 9060 XT family with 8GB and 16GB offerings, where the former willundoubtedly strugglein many memory-bound scenarios. In any case, all eyes are atComputexwhere AMD isexpectedto reveal these GPUs, with retail availability anticipated by early June.
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Hassam Nasir is a die-hard hardware enthusiast with years of experience as a tech editor and writer, focusing on detailed CPU comparisons and general hardware news. When he’s not working, you’ll find him bending tubes for his ever-evolving custom water-loop gaming rig or benchmarking the latest CPUs and GPUs just for fun.
