New sales stats from a popular German tech retailer have cast some light on the current state of the processor market, showing that while AMD has fought back with the recent launch of its Ryzen 2nd Generation chips, the firm hasnt done enough to break the dominance of Intels Coffee Lake CPUs.According to Mindfactory.de, which weve seen figures from in the past, Intel captured 55% of its processor sales in June 2018, compared to 45% for AMD.
So its still a fairly tight race between the two chip giants, but AMD has failed to recover all the ground it has lost to Intels 8th-gen CPUs.As you may remember, with the launch of the original Ryzen processors, AMD really turned things around, and actually took the majority share of processor sales according to this particular retailer by a margin of 56% to 44% by the time August 2017 rolled around.Intel had grabbed the majority share back come the end of last year, though, and pulled away to take a 61% market share in January and February of this year, off the back of new Coffee Lake chips.That lead has since diminished, actually dropping to 51% in May, but Intel has now moved up to a 55% share in June as mentioned.In other words, the launch of the Ryzen 2nd Generation processors in April has had something of an impact in helping AMD to claw back market share, but Intel is still holding strong as the majority power despite Ryzens successor.Of course, its worth underlining that this is a very limited data sample set of just one source, which we can only draw limited conclusions from.
But its still interesting to see the relative fluctuations nonetheless, and the fact that Ryzen 2nd Generation apparently hasnt made nearly the same impact as the original CPUs.Bestselling chipsAMDs bestselling processor remains to be the Ryzen 5 1600, which, according to stats revealed in April by the German retailer, is the firms all time bestseller (and has only been outsold by six Intel chips).
Of the Ryzen 2nd Generation chips, the Ryzen 7 2700X put in a strong showing it was the second-best processor for AMD in terms of sales.Neither of those offerings could hold a candle to Intels top dog, however: the mighty Core i7-8700K.
The Core i5-8600K and Core i5-8400 were also very strong sellers for AMDs rival.Further interesting observations include the fact that Intels Coffee Lake processors represent no less than 47% of all CPUs sold so very nearly half of all the chips flogged.And if you look at revenue rather than unit sales, Intels position is even stronger, with the company taking 62% of the money being spent on processors by punters.Thats because Intel is better maintaining its prices, whereas AMD is lowering its price tags, particularly when it comes to the original Ryzen chips which have been reduced considerably compared to their recommended price at launch.Via Wccftech.com