We asked which GPU you plan to buy next, Nvidia’s 50 series is twice as popular as the new Radeon GPUs
With 2025 introducing the next generation of desktop graphics cards from Nvidia and AMD (Intel already started at the tail-end of 2024 with Battlemage), we’re keen to see how the year is shaping up with a GPU popularity contest. Nvidia’s first cards become available at the end of January with the RTX 5090 and 5080, while it has now been confirmed that we’ll have to wait until March before AMD launches the more mid-range RX 9070 XT and 9070 cards.
We recently ran a poll that reads: “Which GPU series do you plan to upgrade to this year?” and we’ve now had more than enough responses to determine that the RTX 50 series is easily the most popular choice right now. As expected – and as mirrored in the GPU market share for a while now, Nvidia is on top, followed by AMD, then Intel.
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With 1,110 votes and counting at the time of writing, we’ll keep this poll up and running so you can continue to see a live update. It’s also worth mentioning that plenty of people don’t plan to upgrade this year, making up nearly half of total votes. Let’s focus on votes for GPUs though; here’s how the results can be broken down.
- RTX 50 series: 368 (33%)
- RX 9000 series: 178 (16%)
- Intel Battlemage: 39 (4%)
As we can see, the GeForce RTX 50 series is just over double as popular as the upcoming Radeon RX 9000 series. Nvidia will indeed offer more choices, especially at the high end – 5090 reviews predictably reveal that “Nvidia [is] alone at the top”. As for the specific RTX 50 series GPU, we also noticed that the cheapest option (so far) may not be as popular as we first expected. The RTX 5070 was in dead last, with a healthy amount of votes for its Ti variant according to another poll we recently put out.
Nvidia’s new GPUs are fit with DLSS 4 and Multi Frame Gen, the latter of which is exclusive to the series. These AI-powered improvements on the Blackwell architecture allow for massive performance gains; something Nvidia has been keen to show off in its first-party benchmarks. AMD’s FSR 4, on the other hand, remains more of a mystery. The recent delay of new Radeon GPUs to March has at least been attributed to ensuring that more games will get FSR 4 support on launch.