Radeon RX 9070 XT Pops On Valve's Steam Survey, What Caused The Spike?

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AMD's Radeon RX 9070 XT is a fine graphics card, even if not quite as fast as NVIDIA's flagship GeForce RTX 5090. It's certainly more affordable, and so the card's absence on Valve's Steam hardware survey up to this point has been a curious anomaly. So too is the Radeon RX 9070 XT's sudden surge in ownership, as the latest Steam survey seemingly indicates. But did AMD's top consumer graphics card really see a spike in sales, as the numbers hint?

Let's start with the data. After being a no-show on the Steam survey since the Radeon RX 9070 XT debuted over a year ago, the latest results have it sitting at 1.33%. Sure, that is a seemingly small figure, until you consider that the top spot occupied by the GeForce RTX 3060 is at 4.02%.

The Radeon RX 9070 XT now sits in spot number 25, just a...

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