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Benchmarking Utility Shows AMD Ryzen Rapidly Stealing Market Share From Intel (hothardware.com)
According to PassMark, which publishes a benchmarking utility called PerformanceTest, the launch of Ryzen chips has resulted in a surge in AMD's share of its CPUs being tested. From a report: In the first quarter of last year, just 20.1 percent of tests were performed on AMD hardware, versus 79.8 percent on Intel chips. The gap widen by the end of the year, with AMD accounting for 17.8 percent of all tests run through Passmark's software, with Intel jumping up to 82.2 percent. Fast forward to the quarter than just ended and things are looking a bit different. AMD's share has climbed to 26.2 percent, while Intel's has slipped to 73.7 percent. Obviously Intel is still dominating, but what this shows us is that AMD was able to take a nearly 10 percent chunk out what is probably the enthusiast market from Intel. The reason we believe this is largely relegated to the enthusiast market is because AMD's Ryzen architecture is brand new, and that would be the most logical explanation as to why its numbers have suddenly spiked at the expense of Intel.
Limiting your market share sampling to people who run benchmarks is certainly not the best way to figure out how many CPUs are being sold.
That said, good on AMD for producing a chip that actually competes with Intel.
Maybe people tend to run benchmarks on their brand-new hardware, and not the hardware that they've been using for a while?
Just a thought.
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I would guess that the impact was not that great. Given the state of AMD processors pre-Ryzen, I think any AMD fan that wanted one had had one for a long time. I think the larger impact was to Intel's sales. I know I was thinking about a new system late last year, and was looking at an i7. Then I remembered Ryzen and after catching up on the news it really made sense to wait. Especially since I could compare to Kaby Lake. Ryzen 5, 6 and 7 are out, and Intel has botched the i9/X release so thoroughly that it's clear they were somehow caught with their pants down and have nothing good on the near horizon. I suspect that many fence sitters like myself will pull the trigger on a Ryzen system.