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AMD's desktop CPU share passes Intel's for first time in 15 years according to benchmarking PassMark Software

Kolx

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Benchmarking giant PassMark Software's latest results for Q1 2021 show AMD taking a 50.8 percent share of the worldwide desktop CPU market, leaving Intel with 49.2 percent. The last time team red went ahead was way back in in Q1 2006, though its 53.9 percent lead back then lasted only a single quarter.
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Of course AMD is still behind in laptops and servers especially, but it's great to finally have someone knock off intel from their top place for once even if it's just in a single category.
 
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Well deserved. I love my Zen 3 CPU, the single threaded performance increase is just unreal being used to Intel doing absolutely nothing each gen
 
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I was a staunch intel person for the longest time, went to a 3600x in the Fall and never looked back.
 
Roytheone

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I went with intel for my recent build since AMD cpu's are currently extremely supply constraint and even a 3600 was overpriced as hell. I think that is actually an indication they are doing VERY well.
 
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Mad props to AMD for getting that marketshare back.

Now they need to do it with their GPUs, too. Competition is good.
 

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Ryzen is pretty much the goto right now so yeah makes sense. It used to be Intel for ages and during that period, nothing really changed for the longest time.
 
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Deserved, intel resting on their laurels for some years now, Ryzen is Godlike.
 
Perkin_Warbeck

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Neat. I'm guessing people who run AMD processors are more likely to run benchmark apps, since more of them are enthusiasts. All the same, AMD has definitely made up a lot of ground.
 

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Ser_Foxalot said:
Neat. I'm guessing people who run AMD processors are more likely to run benchmark apps, since more of them are enthusiasts. All the same, AMD has definitely made up a lot of ground.
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Curious what you've based that on? Might as well say everyone with a car must also be an F1 racer.. because they own a car...
 
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strudelkuchen said:
There is no reason to buy Intel as a Desktop user.
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Its funny that here the only reason to buy intel is created because....there is no reason to buy intel. And because of that, the demand of ryzen cpu's is so high here that the prices increased, suddenly making intel products better in price/performance again.
 
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Henrar said:
It's not nonsense, do you have any idea how many prebuilts carry Intel CPUs and land in schools, military or offices big and small?
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Why would someone doing an AMD build be MORE LIKELY to run a benchmark?

Especially since the enthusiast crowd has always been Intel's?
 
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Fularu said:
Why would someone doing an AMD build be MORE LIKELY to run a benchmark?

Especially since the enthusiast crowd has always been Intel's?
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Enthusiast crowds tend to select CPU with better price/performance ratios and AMD has been winning here for some time. On the other hand, check the offer of the biggest OEMs and compare how many computers they have with Intel CPUs compared to AMDs.
 
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I've bought both in the past couple years. More Ryzen than Intel. I was planning a Ryzen 3 8c/16t processor for my main system, but I was floored when the price was $130-$150 more than I was expecting. So I got a 9900k system since they were going for so little.
 
Fularu

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Henrar said:
Enthusiast crowds tend to select CPU with better price/performance rations and AMD has been winning here for some time. On the other hand, check the offer of the biggest OEMs and compare how many computers they have with Intel CPUs compared to AMDs.
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So what you're essentially saying is that it's nonesense and comes straight out of someone's rear bottom as to why suddenly the only reason AMD is ahead is because enthusiasts (who are a tiny fraction of the market) are doing benchmark enmasse

Pfew, INTEL saved
 
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Kolx said:
Benchmarking giant PassMark Software's latest results for Q1 2021 show AMD taking a 50.8 percent share of the worldwide desktop CPU market, leaving Intel with 49.2 percent. The last time team red went ahead was way back in in Q1 2006, though its 53.9 percent lead back then lasted only a single quarter.
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Of course AMD is still behind in laptops and servers especially, but it's great to finally have someone knock off intel from their top place for once even if it's just in a single category.
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Is it me or is the chart just vertically flipped?
 
Henrar

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Fularu said:
So what you're essentially saying is that it's nonesense and comes straight out of someone's rear bottom as to why suddenly the only reason AMD is ahead is because enthusiasts (who are a tiny fraction of the market) are doing benchmark enmasse

Pfew, INTEL saved
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Enthusiast benchmark their rigs and since AMD is popular again within the enthusiast circles, it obvious it will get more popular here.
Intel is massive, it's not going anywhere anytime soon and it won't go unless OEMs carry more prebuilts using AMD CPUs. It's that simple.
 
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Fularu said:
Why would someone doing an AMD build be MORE LIKELY to run a benchmark?

Especially since the enthusiast crowd has always been Intel's?
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Enthusiast defined as people who want the fastest CPU, sure, but they seem to mean enthusiast defined as anyone who would build a desktop themselves. There are more intel prebuilds than AMD ones from HP, Dell, Acer, etc and those people specifically are the ones that are less likely to be running benchmarks.
 
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twisted89 said:
Curious what you've based that on? Might as well say everyone with a car must also be an F1 racer.. because they own a car...
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No, of course some people who run AMD processors aren't enthusiasts and wouldn't be any more likely than an intel user to run a benchmark. I'm really just making the banal point that this data doesn't capture all the intel CPUs going into the machines for businesses, schools, and other more casual users of pre-built machines. Those are the users who are less likely to run a benchmark app.
 
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Intel = resting on its laurels for decades

It's only going to get worse as ARM and others produce their own CPUs (ie apple)
 
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My Ryzen 2600x is still serving me well and when I do upgrade I am going AMD again without a second thought.
 
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I was an AMD man until I was not and then I was an Intel man until I was not.
 
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That's great to hear. I remember trying to build a computer years ago and Intel was the only real option but prices were insane. Now I hope the same thing happens with GPU's, once supplies meet demand of course.
 
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PassMark notes that its data is made up of thousands of PerformanceTest benchmark results and, as its software only runs on Windows OS, the charts do not reflect non-Windows users.

This is what you base your entire article on, website?

What is next, the 3080 is the most used GPU because it is the one that released recently and has the most recent benchmarkings on?
 
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