Friday, April 4th 2025
Eight-Core CPUs Become the Most Popular Choice of PC Users, CPU-Z Stats Show
CPU-Z's Q1 2025 validation data indicates a new trend in CPU core count preferences among PC users. Eight-core processors now account for 24.7% of all validations, a significant increase of 32.6% compared to previous data. In contrast, six-core processors have declined to 22.5% of validations, down by 6.9%. The higher core count of eight-core CPUs aligns with the increasing demand for multithreaded performance in various computing environments, from professional workstations to high-end gaming systems. Market share figures also reveal adjustments in consumer preferences regarding CPU manufacturers. Intel retains a majority of presence with 56.3% of the market. However, AMD's share has risen notably at 43.7%, representing a 16.6% increase from the previous year.
The shift in market shares suggests that users are increasingly drawn to AMD's offerings, which include competitive eight-core processors. A key contributor to the trend toward eight-core CPUs is the rising popularity of specific models. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D, for example, has significantly impacted this new statistic, becoming the most popular CPU according to the CPU-Z validations. This indicates that users are interested in eight-core offerings with 3D V-Cache technology for increased gaming performance. The shift away from six-core configurations, which now represent a smaller portion of the validation data, shows that eight cores are now a sweet spot for many gamers. For multitasking and gaming, it seems like a perfect choice.
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Valid x86, via VideoCardz
The shift in market shares suggests that users are increasingly drawn to AMD's offerings, which include competitive eight-core processors. A key contributor to the trend toward eight-core CPUs is the rising popularity of specific models. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D, for example, has significantly impacted this new statistic, becoming the most popular CPU according to the CPU-Z validations. This indicates that users are interested in eight-core offerings with 3D V-Cache technology for increased gaming performance. The shift away from six-core configurations, which now represent a smaller portion of the validation data, shows that eight cores are now a sweet spot for many gamers. For multitasking and gaming, it seems like a perfect choice.
37 Comments on Eight-Core CPUs Become the Most Popular Choice of PC Users, CPU-Z Stats Show
In that regard, steam statistics are more accurate.
Not sure this was the progress people wanted when they complained about the old Intel cpu's, we were actually better of then.
In the more recent AAA games I'm GPU bound in the first place anyway..
Some people use computers for things other than video games.
/end_sarcasm
This should not be a suprise to anyone and as obvious as water being wet.
- of Windows users?
- who download & run that particular piece of software?
- validation data ?
I did not use windows for at least 20 years. No license & too high hardware requirements in my youth & no windows software to use windows with. Windows Vista annoyed me so much that I had after 3 days ARCH & Gentoo installed since 2006. In the past few years I dual boot with Windows again (just for games) and use windows at work.It seems some sort of fetish to run gpuz to see how many rops you have. Or do run cpu-z to see something else.
That rop & gpuz topic from last time motivated me a few days ago to run gpuz. I wanted to see the output from that programm. It was the first time after ~1.5 years for my 7800xt. I never run that on my 6800 non xt or 6600xt graphic card or 960 gtx.
I only run cpuinfo or cpuid2cpuflags when I have to determine which instructions my current platform supports for compiler optimisations.off topic:
BBC -> podcast -> crowd science -> is water wet (very interesting as it is not that easy to answer)
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Core count is not everything. My previous Ryzen 5800x (8 core) is similar as fast as my current ryzen 7600x (6 core).