AMD Radeon RX 9070 series GPUs are seemingly quite popular among PC users, at least those who follow the news and read/watch reviews. Team Red’s adequate pricing and the stock shortages its competition faces allowed the Radeon 9000 cards to attract more than 70% of users who responded to recent surveys.
Following the positive reception by the gaming community of AMD’s RDNA 4 GPUs, multiple hardware review outlets held polls to see how many are in their communities’ hands. For ComputerBase, 43.5% of its 4,219 voters selected an RX 9070 XT, eclipsing Nvidia’s RTX 5080 at 12.3%, RTX 5090 at 7%, and RTX 5070 Ti at 4.7%. Even the RX 9070, which offers less value than its XT brethren, managed to beat all RTX 50 Series cards with 13.9%. Putting aside the 18.6% of users eyeing up older hardware results in AMD claiming a massive 71% share, against 29% for Nvidia.
Moving to Gamers Nexus, the survey showed that 14,300 users managed to get an RX 9070 or RX 9070 XT graphics card. That said, this represents a minority of those interested, with two-thirds unable to buy one due to shortages or unavailability of MSRP models. This experience is also shared by ComputerBase’s German audience of which 23.6% are still trying to grab one. AMD better sort its supply quick because 18.7% of voters have already lost interest.
According to 3DCenter, AMD was able to ship twice as many RX 9070 series cards in one week than the entire Nvidia RTX 50 Series since the end of January. While this remains a limited view as it mainly probes an enthusiast crowd, it nonetheless shows that AMD is succeeding in its market share boosting plans.
That said, AMD is not out of the woods yet. Nvidia and Intel could come and swoop all the remaining customers still on the fence. More so seeing how many users have complained about cancelled orders after going through payment which indicates unexpected shortages, especially of MSRP models.
The good news is that AMD keeps shouting that it will ensure MSRP availability, with stocks filling as fast as possible. All AMD has to do is monitor prices to avoid Nvidia’s mistake and it should be golden.
