AMD Ryzen gaming CPU gross sales accounted for 92% of all CPUs bought by one German retailer, leaving Intel with just below 8% of its CPU gross sales, in line with a brand new report. This utter dominance by AMD would look like reflective of the lead the corporate has established in gaming efficiency in comparison with Intel’s newest processors.
In our AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D overview, we declared it the only finest gaming CPU by a substantial margin, and positive sufficient it’s this chip that leads the cost for AMD‘s gross sales. Nevertheless, the corporate’s Zen 5 CPUs basically are nonetheless outselling Intel at this retailer, portray the image of a close to monopoly within the minds of PC consumers trying to improve their CPU and motherboard. Nevertheless, a number of components make the true image much less clear.
The headline-grabbing gross sales numbers come from German retailer MindFactory, by the use of a publish on X (previously Twitter) by tech YouTuber, TechEpiphanyYT. Of their publish they break down the distribution of CPU gross sales by items, income, and motherboard socket, together with exhibiting gross sales for particular person chips throughout January 2025.
We will see from this knowledge that the 9800X3D dominates gross sales, with 8,390 CPUs bought out of a 25,625 whole. In the meantime, the 7600X3D and 7800X3D additionally account for 4,070 items between them. The primary Intel chip to make it onto the ordered checklist is the Core i7-14600KF with simply 150 items bought.
Nevertheless, digging deeper, there are two key components that counsel the worldwide gross sales image isn’t as excessive as proven right here. The primary is that some customers report MindFactory as being well-known for not having Intel inventory, with one commenter on TechPowerUp’s feedback part noting that the shop doesn’t inventory the Intel Core Extremely 285K or 265K, and that consumers know to not search for them on this web site.
What’s extra, TechEpiphanyYT additionally shares obvious Amazon US gross sales knowledge, and this means the gross sales cut up isn’t fairly so dominated by AMD. The corporate nonetheless takes just below 80% of gross sales, with Intel taking simply over 20%, however that’s a major distinction from the figures cited by the German retailer.
The US gross sales are additionally led by the 9800X3D however it’s the cheaper, older 7600X, and 5600X chips that take second and third spots. Notably, although, the US gross sales figures don’t embrace any Intel Core i7-14700K gross sales, which might trace on the numbers not being a wholly true reflection of Amazon US’ precise gross sales numbers or both firm’s normal international gross sales. We’d anticipate the 14700K to nonetheless be a considerably fascinating improve for some customers.
As such, each units of gross sales knowledge should be taken with a number of grains of salt and seen as a speculative illustration of the true image. Regardless, even when there are some omissions and a few facets of the information that stay questionable, the sample is obvious, which is that the 9800X3D has been a smash hit for AMD.
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