Back in March, AMD released its new Ryzen CPUs. And while these CPUs under-performed in gaming, they are still considered great CPUs (especially due to their lower prices, at least when compared to Intel’s counterparts). And according to PassMark’s quartely reports, AMD saw in Q3 2017 its biggest market share increase in recent years.
According to PassMark’s reports, AMD’s CPU market share jumped from 20,60% to 26,20%. As such, AMD was able to get back to its Q1 2014 figures. On the other hand, Intel’s CPU market share dropped from 79,30% to 73,70%.
So, great news overall for AMD, right? Indeed, however there is a catch here. PassMark noted that this graph counts the baselines submitted to it during these time periods and therefore is representative of CPUs in use rather than CPUs purchased.
Furthermore, this chart only includes x86 processors and does not include other chip architectures these manufacturers may sell. And since the PerformanceTest software only runs on Windows OS and counts on user submitting their benchmarks, this chart may be non reflective of non Windows user base.
Still, this graph will give you an idea of how AMD’s Ryzen chip was received by users.
AMD will release its Ryzen Threadripper CPU later this month, so it will be interesting to see whether the red team will be able to further increase its market share in the fourth and final quarter of 2017!
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Good.
Been a long time coming. Let’s keep this train rolling.
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It’s been expected. AMD has delivered some really good and competitive Ryzen CPUs for a fair price. Good job Jim Keller and AMD Engineers.
Keller was working on K12 ARM core architecture.
ZEN was actually developed by team around James Prior (Product Manager), Suzanne Plummer (Sr. Director Design Engineering) and Mike Clarke (Sr. Fellow Design Engineering), where Suzanne Plummer was head of development.
Hopefully this trend will get to the 50-50 and we will have a healthy competition again in the cpu market.
And hopefully the same on the gfx market too someday.
Its needed, better AMD products and drop Intel prices.
While obviously good news for AMD let’s not overdo it with the hyperbole. One glance at the chart shows it to be a small upswing in market share following 11 years of steady decline.
aye, we have to see them keeping up this ball game of theirs for the next decade, rather than a home run and then nothing for the next 10 years.
will at least 100m chips in the ps4 and xbox consoles i think they are doing better then people say.
Going by what AMD says in their Quarterly and Yearly Financial Statements they began going further in the red than ever before when they landed all 3 console maker contracts and continued going into deep debt for years afterwards. You can check this for yourself if you want. The reason being that higher revenue ? higher profit always. In this case AMD was charging too little for the chips it was selling to Sony, MS and Nintendo. The margins were too low to make a decent profit. I think they have learned from this going forward and I look for them to return to profitability Q3 of this year and things look promising for next year according to most financial analysts.
In short, AMD has another shot at success with Ryzen and though Vega will probably not come in as a high end GPU it should still sell decently until Volta comes out. By far most gamers buy entry level and midrange GPUs anyway.
Navi should be big if AMD can bring it to market soon after Volta. We’ll see.
you better hope amd doesnt go under or you will be paying $1000 for a i5 4690k.if amd goes they can charge what they want.
I rarely use the word idiot to describe someone but yes, only an idiot would like to see AMD go bankrupt for obvious reasons.
That is something i can agree with.
The margins are low, but that isn’t the point. The point is getting AMD architecture widespread and this is the best way of achieving that.
Dude, AMD has a hell of a lot bigger market than nvidia.. Nvidia has nothing on amd now except gpu-s all of nvidia products are gpu based , on the othe rhand amd has consoles, cpu market , mobile market, and most important server market which they need to capture
Except Nvidia as a company make more money and are worth much more than AMD.
Being spread so thin has done AMD no good whatsoever.
Then intel should be dead by now, it is also “spread thin” … it is good to spread out
Intel are a massive company more than ten times the size of AMD.
There is a difference between being spread thin and being big enough to have the resources for the markets you are trying to compete in.
Intel have the resources. AMD have been spread thin to the detriment of their core business.
the ones in consoles are cancerous compared to the the mighty ryzen
those consoles have jaguar TABLET cpus.
Tablet? AMD does not make tablet APU’s the closest thing would be mobile, but even then these are custom socs.
Consoles dotn have ryzen cpus. Most people who are upgrading their pc now(gamers or not) are buying Ryzen 1700 since it is currently the best perfomance/price cpu. That brings amd much more money than those crapy with consoles with their weak 50 euros cpu and 50 euros graphics card will ever bring.
Great AMD.
Very pleased to read this…go AMD – the true innovators!
Intel deserves that drop 100%. They’ve been ripping they’re consumers formquite some time now… me included…
” they are still considered great CPUs (especially due to their lower prices, at least when compared to Intel’s counterparts).”
As if there are any other cpus that you can buy. Intel cpus are too expensive, everyone with a brain should want AMD to stay competitive in the market or intel is gonna rob us blind without a competitor.
Of course they deserve it because they continue sell their cpus much higher price. My Ryzen 1700 costs 390 euros but the intel equivlanet cpu core i7 6900k costs 1100 euros! Intel sell same perfomance cpu for 2+ the price of amd. Of course they desrve. That comes from someone who has been a pc user since 1996 and have used both intel and amd cpus!
It’s going to take a very long time for AMD to convince Intel loyalists to switch to AMD Ryzen.
I’m not exactly a loyalist, but I do want amazing performance all across the board in order for me to switch from one product to another.
I would hope that AMD purists do the same when Intel stops fumbling around, it should never be a one way street of “loyalty”.
im kinda impatienlty waiting for my 6600k become useless so i can get ryzen, I hope they will perform well when this time will come
ps. amd pls builtin gpu in higher tier cpus
hardly competative but still it’s nice to have options
i hope AMD succeeds and manages to force intel to make some REAL improvements with each generation
Most likely the b2 stepping
intel indeed need to work harder (they got distracted by mobile market) but for nvidia i think they already work as hard as they could. if anything it is AMD that can’t keep up with nvidia. this is just my opinion but intel slowing down and go crazy with their price actually giving the breathing room needed for AMD to be competitive again. doing the opposite and we see the situation that happen on AMD GPU right now.
Ryzen game performance really isn’t as bad as many are making it out to be. It’s around as good as last generation intel i5’s for gaming. That is not bad at all. To top it off they’re cheaper, and their performance in other areas is better for the dollar. I’m currently an intel/nvidia user but if AMD can match or win the performance in games I will switch, just to give intel or nvidia a reason to drop prices.