Wednesday, February 5th 2025
AMD CPUs had 92% Market Share at German PC Hardware Retailer in January
German PC hardware retailer MindFactory sold an astonishing 25,625 AMD and Intel CPUs in January 2025. However, an honor falls to AMD this time, as Team Red has managed to capture as much as 92.16% (23,615) of all units sold by this retailer. Not only did it leave Intel with 7.84% (2010) of total units sold, AMD also beat Intel in average selling price, where AMD managed to keep ASP at 320 Euros, while Intel buyers were considering some less expensive CPU SKUs at 290 Euros. This has resulted in AMD's revenue share recording 93.45% at 8,300,674 Euros, while Intel left a smaller mark at 6.55% or 581,959 Euros. The best-selling CPU was AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D, sold in 8,390 units in January.
A detailed analysis of socket distribution reveals AMD's AM5 platform's overwhelming dominance, securing 18,410 units or 71.84% of total sales. The mature AM4 platform maintains a significant market presence with 5,205 units (20.31%), showing strong continued demand for AMD's previous-generation socket. Intel's LGA 1700, compatible with 12/13/14th generation processors, accounted for 1,745 units (6.81%), while their older platforms showed minimal market penetration. The LGA 1851 socket, supporting Intel's latest Core Ultra 200S processors, managed just 185 units (0.72%), with legacy LGA 1200 and LGA 1151 sockets trailing at 55 (0.21%) and 25 (0.1%) units respectively. AMD's latest platform market performance suggests strong consumer confidence in AM5's upgrade path and performance capabilities. This dramatic market share capture by AMD represents one of the most significant shifts in the desktop CPU market in recent years, particularly notable given the higher average selling prices at which AMD CPUs are now sold.
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A detailed analysis of socket distribution reveals AMD's AM5 platform's overwhelming dominance, securing 18,410 units or 71.84% of total sales. The mature AM4 platform maintains a significant market presence with 5,205 units (20.31%), showing strong continued demand for AMD's previous-generation socket. Intel's LGA 1700, compatible with 12/13/14th generation processors, accounted for 1,745 units (6.81%), while their older platforms showed minimal market penetration. The LGA 1851 socket, supporting Intel's latest Core Ultra 200S processors, managed just 185 units (0.72%), with legacy LGA 1200 and LGA 1151 sockets trailing at 55 (0.21%) and 25 (0.1%) units respectively. AMD's latest platform market performance suggests strong consumer confidence in AM5's upgrade path and performance capabilities. This dramatic market share capture by AMD represents one of the most significant shifts in the desktop CPU market in recent years, particularly notable given the higher average selling prices at which AMD CPUs are now sold.
51 Comments on AMD CPUs had 92% Market Share at German PC Hardware Retailer in January
Neither 265K nor 285K retail is in stock. If I wanted one I'd definitely buy somewhere else.
Meanwhile..
But the comments are always funny. 90% buys amd, smart buyers. 90% buying nvidia, idiots and sheep and they'd buy nvidia no matter what.
And this is of course sales to people who DIY assemble computers at home. Mostly gamers.
How large of a market share this has, compared to buying pre-assembled gaming, home, office PCs, where priorities might be completely different? I think public still kind of associates PCs with Intel, no matter what AMD does, also Intel was very successful in enforcing their CPUs into computer builds from large partners. So even if sales to DIY builders of gaming computers would be 0, Intel still wouldn't just die all of a sudden.
And they aren't exclusively AMD sellers - they might have larger stock of AMD CPUs and more discounts, but that's related to popularity of that company's product, not some sponsorship.
Look at CES 2025, 90% of all gaming laptops are equipped with Arrow Lake, imagine how deep is the Intel's cartel to force the worst gaming CPU that is on par with 2022 Alder Lake in all these gaming laptops
And the awesome new AMD Ryzen 9 9950X
So it is 50/50 for me :D
I can imagine buying tech equipment from Western European stores that had much lower prices than Eastern European ones with large margins was so prevalent this entered politics, and stores suddenly got all kinds of problems for selling to certain countries - so many simplified and stopped it, and countries so protected their uncompetitive home tech stores.We also have to take account that most of these reports are just estimates - Intel, AMD of course have their own correct numbers of CPUs sold, but are not releasing them in any comparable way. So analysts have to estimate from various sources, and these estimates can be wildly wrong.
www.techpowerup.com/332086/amd-reports-fiscal-fourth-quarter-and-full-year-2024-financial-results
I mean, it's not like no one is selling across EU.
But I think the reason was simple. As soon as Nvidia announced new generation and stopped production of Lovelace cards, prices started to go up - so people waited for the release of new generation. And got screwed. :p
Meanwhile Radeon cards didn't have any surge in price, nobody expects the new AMD cards to do something groundbreaking - even AMD didn't publicize the release of new models in early 2025 (not even on CES). So the sales went on as normal - but these are low numbers.