Amazon's top 12 best-selling CPUs all come from AMD as Team Red adds to Intel's woes

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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.

At the time of writing, 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.

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Amazon's top 12 best-selling CPUs all come from AMD as Team Red adds to Intel's woes

 

[Puiu]

Now AMD needs to capitalise on this advantage and rein in more lucrative OEM deals.

 

[WhiteLeaff]

Well done, all that's left is to end the dirty relationship between OEMs and Intel in order to get a bigger marketshare boost

 

[yRaz]

AMDs marketshare is soaring and I just got a 12700k+mobo&RAM for $140 on ebay. But at $130, the 5700x is a steal. Might buy a few to upgrade the rack. Having several 1800X,2800x and 3800Xs is kinda lame

 

[JohnRambo4]

And yet the vast majority of prebuilt PCs are Intel. What's the deal?

 

[Todd Sauve]

And yet the vast majority of prebuilt PCs are Intel. What's the deal?

See WhiteLeaff's comment above. Intel has often forced OEMs to purchase strictly from them or lose their pricing advantage. This is doubtless illegal but Intel and legality are hardly synonymous. Thus I feel no sympathy for them in their current difficulties. I hope they can never regain a dominant position, and that what remains will keep eroding until they can no longer bully or bribe anyone.

 

[Eldrach]

Well - Not really good news for anyone. Ideally the top ten would be a 50/50 - AMD is reaching monopoly in the desktop market, which will only drive up pricing.
Intel needs to come up with something good next round or they'll have massive issues climbing back up from the mud they're in now.

 

[Starfals]

Well - Not really good news for anyone. Ideally the top ten would be a 50/50 - AMD is reaching monopoly in the desktop market, which will only drive up pricing.
Intel needs to come up with something good next round or they'll have massive issues climbing back up from the mud they're in now.

At least they won't disappear as a company. Laptop market is mostly Intel..Their GPUs are almost done. Nobody is buying them, literally nobody. That race is almost over. This next AMD generation could be their last one. We will see ofc. So if this and the server space keeps them in business, fine. Monopoly is bad but AMD being gone as a whole is even worse.

 

[user556]

I'm guessing Amazon's charts are based on payments rather than deliveries. Ie: There'll be a large helping of back-orders in there that pushing the 9800X3D to the top. I can't see it holding the top spot until the supply side is improved.

 

[redgarl]

My prediction is when Intel will not be able to bribe OEMs anymore, the dam will fail and AMD will flood everything.

 

[redgarl]

Well - Not really good news for anyone. Ideally the top ten would be a 50/50 - AMD is reaching monopoly in the desktop market, which will only drive up pricing.
Intel needs to come up with something good next round or they'll have massive issues climbing back up from the mud they're in now.

WTH are you talking about? Intel has bribed the OEMs for decades while offering lackluster upgrades.

They will not be missed.

 

[JohnRambo4]

I, for one, welcome our new AMD overlords.

 

[Eldrach]

WTH are you talking about? Intel has bribed the OEMs for decades while offering lackluster upgrades.

They will not be missed.

Competition is good. That intel has bought exclusivity - not too good, but we need more than one big supplier, otherwise we'll see 800 dollar entry level cpu's in a couple of years