1 week Ago By Rob Thubron
In brief: If you really want to see which company is currently dominating CPU sales, look at Amazon's best-selling processors list. AMD's hold is clear, with Team Red taking up all 12 of the top spots, while Intel's highest entry, the Core i5-13600KF, sits in 13th place. AMD is on a roll right now as Intel seems to run into one crisis after another.
The Ryzen 7 9800X3D has been a revelation for games – it's possibly a little too good as the chip has been sold out at most places and scalpers are selling it for four-figure sums on eBay. And while the rest of Zen 5 was underwhelming , Intel's Arrow Lake series has been equally disappointing or worse . In addition to many calling Arrow Lake a failure, Intel is still dealing with the Raptor Lake problems.
The instability issues in its 13th- and 14th-generation processors have impacted sales, even with Intel extending the warranty by two years. Team Blue is also facing a class-action lawsuit over the situation. Intel's losses are AMD's gains.
Amazon.com's best-selling processors list is a red wave led by the Ryzen 5700X. The eight-core/sixteen-thread processor recently saw its price reduced to a record-low of just $130 ahead of Black Friday, which doubtlessly boosted sales.
The 9800X3D is in fourth place, though it would likely be higher if it didn't keep selling out, and another Zen 5 chip, the Ryzen 9 9900X, is in 12th position, just above Intel's highest CPU, the Core i5-3600KF. There are only five blue boxes in the top twenty, while the highest Arrow Lake entry, the Core Ultra 9 285K, is at 38th. It's not just the Amazon chart that will be making Lisa Su smile.
Mercury Research's latest report showed that AMD is eroding Intel's share of the desktop, mobile, and server markets. AMD's x86 CPUs now command a 28.7% unit share, up from just 19.
2% in 2023. The latest Steam survey shows a similar story. AMD has reached an all-time-high share of 33.
77% in the CPU section, as Intel declined 1.21% last month to its lowest share ever, 66.17%.
Although AMD's 3D V-Cache is helping it dominate the consumer market, Intel recently said similar technology it is developing will not be a competitor as it's designed for server CPUs..
