The utter dominance of Nvidia GeForce GPUs within the Steam {Hardware} Survey over the previous couple of months, and even years, has been plain for all to see. Nonetheless, within the very newest Steam {Hardware} Survey for September 2025, AMD has edged its means again up the charts, a little bit.
The achievement in query? AMD has lastly received the Radeon identify again within the prime ten most used GPUs on Valve’s survey of hundreds of thousands of Steam customers’ PC {hardware}. Whereas that is removed from an indication of a large turnaround in AMD’s Radeon GPU fortunes, it is a minimum of a sign that extra individuals are actually gaming on Radeon GPUs, even when our favourite GPU on our greatest graphics card information, the Radeon RX 9070 XT, hasn’t charted but.
Nonetheless, instantly placing a dampener on this trigger for potential celebration by AMD followers/staff/buyers is that the highest ten entry is merely listed as “AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics,” moderately than singling out a single GPU. It isn’t clear what chips are included on this blanket time period, however it could possibly be all the things from handheld GPUs to previous AMD built-in graphics. Had been it a more moderen, singular graphics card, although, we would count on this to be recognised by Valve and listed with the right identify.
In reality, it’s important to drop all the best way to place quantity 29 on the chart to succeed in a named AMD GPU, which is the moderately historic RX 6600. In the meantime, there’s nonetheless not a single RX 9000 card named within the prime 100 playing cards, which could be very stunning contemplating each how properly obtained they have been and that a few of the playing cards nonetheless listed on the survey are actually historic.
As for Nvidia’s GPUs, it is fascinating to notice that it is the RTX 4060 laptop computer version that now tops the chart, with a 0.22% uplift in customers in comparison with final month. In the meantime, the desktop RTX 4060 took a 0.6% hit, dropping from first to 3rd place.
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