Ten best selling CPUs on Amazon are all AMD chips(pcgamer.com)
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Ten best selling CPUs on Amazon are all AMD chips
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This is the market for people building their own PC or upgrading a PC and buying their parts from Amazon which is a tiny portion of the total PC shipments but is an important leading indicator for the rest of the market. Intel still beats AMD in total CPUs shipped.
And this is the amazing fact that needs more study. AMD's been the easy choice for years. Why so slow to adopt?
* Consumer/Partner Inertia?
* Ability to produce to meet demand?
* Support?
* Compatibility?
Once had an IT person tell me they couldn't move to ryzen laptops because the way the system presented its network interfaces was incompatible with their management software. My charitable interpretation is that there's enough programs like this that prevent AMD adoption, while simultaneously AMD never seems to be in a rush to fix firmware or software problems.
* Consumer/Partner Inertia?
* Ability to produce to meet demand?
* Support?
* Compatibility?
Once had an IT person tell me they couldn't move to ryzen laptops because the way the system presented its network interfaces was incompatible with their management software. My charitable interpretation is that there's enough programs like this that prevent AMD adoption, while simultaneously AMD never seems to be in a rush to fix firmware or software problems.
Inertia, layman brand perception, anticompetitive behavior (Intel has been in court for 15+ years about this).
An example in the laptop space, Intel invested a lot in the marketing and designs of the Ultrabook classification. So customers ask for an Ultrabook from Dell, Lenovo, HP, etc. and those are only available with Intel CPUs. It’s taken several years for AMD mobile CPUs to work their way into high end designs.
An example in the laptop space, Intel invested a lot in the marketing and designs of the Ultrabook classification. So customers ask for an Ultrabook from Dell, Lenovo, HP, etc. and those are only available with Intel CPUs. It’s taken several years for AMD mobile CPUs to work their way into high end designs.
Intel just can't stop floundering. Alder Lake and Arrow Lake were talked up a lot, but Alder Lake only approximately caught up to AMD, and Arrow Lake is still well behind.
I haven't had to build a PC in decades but I'm toying with the idea at the moment and there's not a chance I'd buy Intel ever again.
After Intel gen13, gen14 being self-destroying CPUs, the just launched new generation of chips from Intel disappoint in performance, often worse than previous two gens.
Meanwhile, AMD use less power and perform better, while supporting ECC memory (unlike Intel).
The x3d models are a class on their own, in games and other cache-sensitive tasks.
It is no surprise AMD is selling better.
Meanwhile, AMD use less power and perform better, while supporting ECC memory (unlike Intel).
The x3d models are a class on their own, in games and other cache-sensitive tasks.
It is no surprise AMD is selling better.
I chose an Intel CPU in 2023 because I thought it had better single-core performance, but now I have had to check it doesn't suffer from any of the stability issues etc.
In the future I'll just pick AMD, their handling of these stability issues has really damaged my trust in Intel.
In the future I'll just pick AMD, their handling of these stability issues has really damaged my trust in Intel.
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