- January 2020 Update: AMD Gains Up To 40% CPU Market Share For The First Time In More Than A Decade
- AMD Snatches 40% CPU Market Share
AMD's impressive results last year makes the company to smash a record which was never possible for years but now it is. With PassMark's survey report, the company reported AMD's market share increasing to 40% for the first time in over a decade and half.
This data comes after Intel has been facing increasing competition from AMD's Zen 2 based processors that can go toe to toe with the best Intel has to offer considering they are based on the 7nm process while Intel remains on 14nm. AMD's Ryzen 3000 series was released back in July 2019 and marked the company's historical transition to a sub 14/16nm process (the 7nm node). For the first time in over three decades, Intel had lost its process lead over the x86 industry and AMD was the company to profit the most of it. With an outstanding pricing technique AMD uses to drive consumers to its side, not only the price, but getting a Chip that runs as faster as the Intel expensive Chips in a very budget price is something people want.
AMD has shocked Intel by driving back up to 40% market share in the latest PassMark report (note!: this is just one data point and based only on devices running PassMark. Full list of caveats given below) and this is an amazing thing that never happened seen since 2006 - 2020 almost a full 14 years ago.
AMD has shocked Intel by driving back up to 40% market share in the latest PassMark report (note!: this is just one data point and based only on devices running PassMark. Full list of caveats given below) and this is an amazing thing that never happened seen since 2006 - 2020 almost a full 14 years ago.
AMD has previously admitted that it never thought it would ever beat Intel but the company's misstep in its 10nm efforts proved to be the ultimate opportunity for the company. AMD has the process superiority, but hey..Intel has (as of yet) managed to retain its clock superiority based on the 14nm process.
PassMark Survey Notes:
- This graph counts the baselines submitted to us during these time period and therefore is representative of CPUs in use rather than CPUs purchased.
- The Quarters are by the calendar year rather than financial. (i.e. Q1 starts January 1st)
- Baselines can be submitted from anywhere therefore these are global statistics.
- We do receive a small number of submissions of CPU types other than AMD and Intel however the percentage is so small as to make it not worth graphing. This combined with rounding off the percentages to 2 decimal places will account for each quarter not always adding up to exactly 100%.
- This chart only includes x86 processors and does not include other chip architectures these manufacturers may sell.
- This chart only includes CPUs installed into PCs and does not include game consoles.
- As the PerformanceTest software only runs on Windows OS and counts on user submitting their benchmarks. This chart may be non reflective of non Windows user base.
- The figures don't represent just new CPU sales. They also reflect to some degree the installed base from the last 5 to 10 years. So large monthly swings in CPU sales will take time to convert the installed base.
- As the chart is updated daily, but data points are for the quarter, the first few days of a new quarter will only have a few samples. i.e. The first few days of a new quarter are less accurate compared to the end of a quarter.
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