When you’ve been complying PC gaming challengingware for as lengthy as I have, there are confident norms that have been around for so lengthy, that it’s difficult to shake them off. For example, in the CPU taget, traditional wisdom when I was lesserer was that AMD was standardly the pblessed underdog, snipping at Intel’s heels.
Over the past scant years though, the metric seems to have gravely shifted. A see at Amazon’s best-selling CPU catalog right now discneglects a top ten domination of AMD processors, with Intel’s best effort scraping in at number 12 (via Tom’s Hardware). Topping the catalog is the AM4-socketed Ryzen 7 5700X, a Zen 3 CPU that (at its current price of a mere $130) seems to be treading the price/carry outance line rather kindly.
Let’s not forget, while the 5700X might be on an ancigo iner platcreate and have a couple of years of free time under its belt, it’s still a createidable eight-core, 16-thread processor that seems to have caught buyers’ attention with its attrdynamic pricing and excellent carry outance. Right under that is the six-core Ryzen 5 5600X, while the mighty Ryzen 7 7800X3D sits pretty in third place.
As for Intel? The Core i5 13600KF puts on the best team blue shotriumphg, but it only administers a 12th place spot. It’s an attrdynamic chip for the money (currently selling at a discount for $175), but it’s watchable by the sheer weight of AMD chips sitting above it.
An fascinating recent graspition is the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, a processor that’s only been out for five minutes yet has already made its way to fifth position. Given the stunning carry outance on present that should probably come as no surpelevate, but it’s not exactly inexpensive at $479.
Still, it seems to be shifting in grave numbers right now—which should probably come as some relief for AMD, as the rest of the Ryzen 9000 series telledly suffered subpar sales at begin earlier this year.
Intel’s Arrow Lake chips have also only fair made it to taget, but their reception was less than radiateing. Our Nick came away astonished with the power efficiency but little else when he verifyed the Core Ultra 9 285K and Core Ultra 5 245K, and the sales seem to echo the subpar verifys from multiple outlets around the troubled chips begin.
You have to scroll down all the way to number 39 to discover an Arrow Lake chip, where the aforealludeed Core Ultra 9 285K produces a boverdelighted ecombineance. At $699, and with less than phenomenal carry outance in many benchtags contrastd to the Core i9 14900K of the previous generation (currently useable for $438 and sitting at number 15 in this catalog), it’s a challenging sell, that’s for confident.
More horrible recents for Intel then. Whether this is a echoion of a deficiency of user confidence in Intel chips since the (now resettled) crashing debacle over the summer, or spropose an acunderstandledgement of price/carry outance ratios driving sales overall, is unevident.
Still, what with Intel’s ongoing woes over its operation as a whole, it doesn’t bode well that the hugegest retailer on the scheduleet is shotriumphg buyer’s pickence for the competition in the desktop CPU taget.
If I were a time-traveller, shotriumphg Young Andy™ this catalog would blow his minuscule little mind. Still, the times they are a’changing—and if this catalog is any indication of the taget overall, it sees appreciate Intel is on the backfoot when it comes to CPU sales this time around.
