AMD’s Ryzen chips appear to wipe the floor with Intel – but today’s best-selling CPUs might surprise you
- Intel’s best-selling CPU sits at a lowly number 13 on Amazon’s rankings
- Team Blue is doing better in Newegg’s CPU chart, but still not good
- This could reflect the fallout from Intel’s recent struggles with chip instability and the shaky launch of Arrow Lake
AMD is cleaning up the world of desktop processors, with Intel now far behind its rival, at least based on Amazon’s rankings of best-selling CPUs.
As you may know, Amazon keeps track of the bestsellers across its range of tech (and other) products, and the list of top processors is currently dominated by AMD, with Team Red now owning the entire top 10.
In fact, the first Intel CPU you’ll see is the Intel Core i5-13600KF at number 13, so the top 12 processors are from AMD (at least at the time of writing). Granted, Intel also has numbers 14, 15, 17 and 18, especially among older 13th and 14th generation CPUs, with no Core Ultra 200S (Arrow Lake) chips in the top 20 – or even the top 100.
Are those chips just too fresh on the market? Well, AMD’s Ryzen 9800X3D is also very new to the market and comes in at number four. In fact, it’s so popular that it’s out of stock at the time of writing.
What are AMD’s best chips in terms of turnover? At number one we have the AMD Ryzen 5700X, the mainstay from two generations ago that is still selling strong, followed by its more affordable sibling, the 5600X.
The AMD Ryzen 7800X3D is in third place, followed by the 9800X3D as mentioned, and then the Ryzen 7600X is in fifth place. It makes sense to see the 7800X3D in a strong position; it’s now the cheaper alternative to the next-generation 9800X3D, while remaining a strong CPU choice for serious PC gamers.
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This gives a very clear picture of how AMD has made progress in CPUs, even if it’s just one retailer – although of course it’s a huge retail player.
If you look at Newegg, which also maintains a regularly updated CPU rankings, this isn’t as heavily weighted towards AMD, but Team Red is clearly winning. In this case, Intel has chips at numbers five through eight, and 14, plus 20, but the rest of the top 20 is all AMD (again, that’s correct at the time of writing, even though the processors may be a bit shaken up a bit by the time you read this).
It’s much the same story as Amazon with the best-selling Ryzen chips, although the bestseller in this case is actually the Ryzen 9800X3D (even though it’s sold out – stock is still a big issue for potential buyers), followed by the Ryzen 7600X ( with a nice discount as you might guess). For Intel, the 14700K and 14900K are the top offerings – you won’t find an Arrow Lake CPU until number 39, where the flagship 285K currently sits.
Are we particularly surprised by this development? Well, not really, although the traction AMD has on the Amazon market is quite startling. But given recent history in the world of CPUs, with Intel having a nightmarish time with its 14th and 13th generation silicon suffering serious instability issues, and Arrow Lake also having a shaky launch, it’s pretty much a given that AMD is going to take advantage of these missteps.
Even though the Ryzen 9000 also got a rather lukewarm reception, even though the Ryzen 9800X3D turned that around as a gaming powerhouse chip – the problem with that new 3D V-Cache CPU is that it’s out of stock everywhere, as noted.
Via Tom’s hardware
