By Sarfraz Khan
Publication Date: 2026-02-24 18:13:00
With the new GPU sales strategy, we are seeing a sudden shift in popularity for some GPUs and the latest retailer data reveals the most popular cards.
AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series Maintains its Dominance on Mindfactory, While NVIDIA RTX 5080 Leads NVIDIA’s RTX 50 Lineup
The latest GPU sales data for Mindfactory is out, revealing what has changed in the past few weeks. Keep in mind that this doesn’t represent the exact global GPU popularity and is specific to Germany. With this retailer’s sales data, we still get an idea of what users are buying the most these days. Since there has been a huge shift in the sales and supply strategy for GPUs by both NVIDIA and AMD, the effect can be seen in the sales for each model.
Right now, some GPUs that used to sell a fraction of the most popular GPUs are now leading the charts. Among them is the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080, which didn’t get so much popularity until now, when NVIDIA decided to prioritize this card due to its higher performance than any other 16 GB RTX 50 series card. We have previously reported that NVIDIA will prioritize 8 GB GPUs, but the RTX 5080 will be the only 16 GB SKU to see more supply than other 16 GB cards, such as RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB and RTX 5070 Ti 16 GB.
This can be seen on the charts as the RTX 5070 Ti is now trailing behind the RTX 5080 with 55 units shipped in the last week. RTX 5080 remains ahead with 95 units, and is the best-selling NVIDIA GPU…
