The high price of the NVIDIA RTX 5000 propels the RTX 4060 to the top of the GPU sales charts.

It appears that players are turning to earlier GPU generations for solace because to the exorbitant costs and limited supply of NVIDIA’s most recent GeForce RTX 5000 series GPUs. The MSI Ventus NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8 GB graphics card, which retails for $459.98, is presently the best-selling GPU, according to the most recent Newegg GPU bestseller statistics. It’s interesting to note that the Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT OC 16 GB is right behind it, with the Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT in third position. The ASUS TUF Gaming RTX 5070 OC is the first NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5000 series GPU on the Newegg bestselling list. It comes in eighth place, behind a number of AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT, RX 9070 XT, and RX 6600 variants. Newegg presently sells the RTX 5070 OC for $739.99, although it’s unclear if this is because of excessive prices or just a shortage of stock to sell. Interestingly, out of the top 20 best-selling GPUs on Newegg, this is the only RTX 5000 series card that is in stock. The bulk of the GPUs on the list are either AMD Radeon RX 7000 series or NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4000 series, however this is only one vendor.

However, the latest Steam Hardware & Software Survey, which was revised for March 2025, presents a more ambiguous picture. Gamers appear to be abandoning the RTX 4000 series even more quickly, even while adoption rates for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5000 series GPUs are undoubtedly slow—the RTX 5080 is the only 5000 series GPU to even appear on the chart, with a 0.19% increase over the past month. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650, which is already six years old, is the GPU that grew the most during the most recent Steam Survey. It’s also noteworthy that the majority of AMD GPUs reported in the Steam Survey had slight increases in adoption. Since the release of the RX 9070 series GPUs, AMD has attracted a lot of attention, according to recent reports from Japan. The company’s 45% market share is surprising given that NVIDIA achieved 90% of the GPU market share in December of last year. AMD’s rise in popularity is probably due in part to NVIDIA’s supply problems, but gamers are also beginning to believe—supported by some of our own testing—that NVIDIA is more focused on AI and isn’t giving its gaming graphics cards enough VRAM to support high-resolution and high-refresh rate gaming.