Monday, July 3rd 2017
Passmark Stats Indicate AMD Gaining Market Share vs Intel Thanks to Ryzen
It seems AMD finally producing a competitive architecture to Intel may be showing in more than just words, but also in market share, if the recent Passmark benchmark reports are anything to go by. Passmark is a system benchmark used by builders and buyers to gauge a systems overall performance, so while it is not a complete market analysis, it is a good market indicator.
AMD market share has been historically decreasing for years relative to Intel since the launch of Intel's massively succesful "core" series of CPUs. To demonstrate this and the subsequent turnaround, Passmark has assembled the following neat little "Red vs Blue" graph below, showing historic and present market figures:
If we examine the above graph, we find the most recent trend of AMD market gains has not been mirrored since about 2005-2006, which certainly is a positive indicator for the market perception of AMD's product performance. It would seem for once AMD is not only competitive in words, but also where it matters: In the hearts and minds of system builders.
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Passmark
AMD market share has been historically decreasing for years relative to Intel since the launch of Intel's massively succesful "core" series of CPUs. To demonstrate this and the subsequent turnaround, Passmark has assembled the following neat little "Red vs Blue" graph below, showing historic and present market figures:
34 Comments on Passmark Stats Indicate AMD Gaining Market Share vs Intel Thanks to Ryzen
nor would they understand that the game has very little to do with the hardware, that it is the engine and api that need to be updated to get the most from the hardware :D
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and i think the stats are representative of systems being sold/built at that time and not total market share.
Do I game on a laptop? yes.
Am I an idiot? no.
Comment does not apply, moving along.
They can spend so much more time playing games instead of reading about CPUs.Again, why bother?
This is the thing behind console popularity. You buy a box, you put in these weird shiny disks called DVDs and a game shows on the TV.
Great stuff.You're mixing this with usage share (aka popularity).
Market share IS about sales - hence the word "market".
Having x% market share means selling x% of a particular product (either by units or revenue) over some time period.
Ryzen is pretty good performance-wise, but that's half of the story. It's a tweaker's wet dream: RAM problems, new BIOS coming out all the time, occasional optimizations available etc.
It's fairly obvious that Ryzen's popularity among people that benchmark their CPUs is very high - totally unrepresentative for the whole market.
Look at the left side of the graph. There's a similar situation in 2005/2006 - that's Athlon 64 X2 - the first proper 2C CPU.
PassMark figures are already biased in relation to actual market share, as they promote products popular among gamers and nerds. Ryzen only strengthens this effect.
Moreover, I'm not entirely sure what's counted. Are these individual machines or sent results? Because if it's the latter, it could again increase AMD's share.
From the fundamental side, we have the AMD Q1 results: revenue in consumer segment was up $130M. Even if we assume this is all down to Ryzen's 1-month sales and that only 7 1700 was being sold ($329), we arrive at around 400k extra CPUs.
However, Ryzen 5 are cheaper, so lets just safely assume they were selling extra 1M CPUs / month in Q2 (compared to 2016).
Even with this assumption (fairly optimistic) it is very unlikely that AMD's market share increased by more than 3-4pp (since Intel sells over 30M CPUs / month). That's nowhere near the ~7pp we see on PassMark chart - I don't think they could even make CPUs necessary for that, let alone sell them.