If ever there were an indication that Intel needs to do something, this is it. AMD has been winning the hearts and minds of computer builders from budget-builds to gaming performance. A look at Amazon’s best-sellers list over the Thanksgiving holiday shows that AMD is dominating the CPU sales charts.
At the time of this writing, the Amazon US best-sellers list for CPU processors is topped by AMD’s 
AMD takes Amazon CPU sales overseas, too
TechPowerUp points out that the same goes for the lists in the UK and Germany. In the UK and Germany alike, the 2700X dominates the top spot. AMD makes up 8 of the top 10 spots in the United Kingdom, and 6 of the top 10 in Germany. Interestingly, Germany also has an AIO cooler in the top 10, too.
It’s not hard to see why. Intel‘s chips are no slouches, especially at the top end. But AMD provides a ton of bang for the buck. That’s been the selling point of AMD chips for a long time, but it almost seems like a steal these days compared to the past. AMD is dropping competitive processors at just about every price point. Intel is still dominant according to Steam’s hardware survey, but AMD is gaining percentage points this year. AMD also claimed earlier this year that Steam was miscounting CPUs, tallying each login at predominantly Intel-based internet cafes in China as a separate unit instead of a different login on the same one. It’s possible that that could be holding back the actual count on these chips.
Regardless, we’re betting that high-gives are going around the AMD offices this Cyber Monday following what looks like a very strong weekend.
Good for them.
Solid point overall that the current AMD lineup has Intel on its back heels, but the real story of Black Friday/Cyber Monday CPU sales seems to be AMD’s aggressive capitalization on its Ryzen 7 2700X stock. I wonder how many of those went into gen 1 Ryzen systems to upgrade from 1700/1700X/1800X versus how many went towards new systems/full rebuilds. I have a 1700X and am not looking to upgrade, but I’ve gotta admit if I had the spare cash it would have been tough to turn down the 2700X drop-in at those prices. On the flip side, I’m doing… Read more »
I think you meant to say ‘high-fives’ in that last paragraph.
ON-TOPIC: AMD is doing very well in the CPU space right now. They have smartly capitalized on Intel’s process woes and are reaping the benefits.
I suspect the OEM landscape differs. Dell around here used to sell Ryzen in both AIO’s and towers, now I believe they sell it nowhere.
Dell sells a lot of AMD systems.
https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/amd-processors-graphics-cards/cp/amd-processors-graphics-cards#prd-grp-stack-f1baf60a-314a-4b0b-a7ff-1a7c5a30b7be
Local market differences I guess. It was odd to see them only offer the first round of Ryzen, then drop it.
We’re cancelling Christmas over here!
Do you have enough HP SSDs with 32,300 hours on the odometer?
Yes! Make those bunny-suited minions slave away through the holidays so they can cancel *EVERYTHING* on January 2nd!