GeForce RTX 5070 emerges as the most popular new GPU among PC gamers

The Steam Hardware & Software Survey results for July 2025 are in, and when it comes to the GPUs, the story remains mostly the same: NVIDIA's GeForce graphics cards continue to dominate the desktop market. With this year seeing the arrival of the new GeForce RTX 50 Series from NVIDIA and the Radeon RX 9000 Series from AMD, the RTX 50 Series is quickly gaining momentum, while GPUs like the Radeon RX 9070 XT are still nowhere to be seen.

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Looking at the new GeForce RTX 50 Series, the most popular model among PC gamers so far is the GeForce RTX 5070, followed by the GeForce RTX 5080 and RTX 5070 Ti. When you take away integrated graphics, the RTX 5070 has cracked the Top 20 most-used graphics cards among PC gamers. The GeForce RTX 5070 launched on March 4, 2025, so it's only taken the mid-range RTX Blackwell offering five months to achieve this milestone.

The top GPUs are still comprised of NVIDIA's various x60-class cards, with the GeForce RTX 3060 still holding the top spot, followed by the GeForce RTX 4060 and the RTX 4060 Ti and RTX 3060 Ti variants. NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 5060 and RTX 5060 Ti are slowly climbing up the rankings, but adoption looks to be slower than the GeForce RTX 5070.

As for Radeon, the most popular discrete GPU from Team Red is the Radeon RX 6600, followed by the aging Radeon RX 580 and Radeon RX 6700 XT. AMD's RDNA 4 lineup, which now includes four models, has yet to crack the Steam Hardware & Software Survey results with individual entries. Based on the complete list, which you can see here, AMD's most popular modern cards are the RDNA 3-powered Radeon RX 7800 XT and flagship Radeon RX 7900 XTX - both of which trail the entire GeForce RTX 50 Series line-up.

Here's a closer look at the Top 20 discrete GPUs per the Steam Hardware & Software Survey results for July 2025.