AMD CPU sales top Intel while the new Core i9s are coming

In August AMD chip sales just squeezed ahead of Intel’s for the first time since it launched its Coffee Lake processors late last year.

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Credit: AMD Ryzen

This isn’t the first time in recent history that AMD has managed to topple the traditional Intel retail hegemony; after the first-gen Ryzen CPUs launched AMD was outselling the aging Kaby Lake range, but as soon as the Coffee Lake range was released Intel surged back ahead. as PCGAMESN reports,

AMD has been clawing back sales share over the year, especially after the second-gen AMD Ryzen processors launched, with parity finally being achieved again in July. But the report shows Ryzen sales accounted for 51% against Intel’s 49% in August.

The data popped up on Reddit, where regular Mindfactory data-hound, ingebor, has been plotting the sales info. It’s important to note that this is just from a single retailer in Germany, and is also just based on the number of physical CPUs sold. In terms of actual revenue Intel shouldn’t feel too disconsolate, it is still making more actual money out of the number of its processors.

Maybe one thing that intel has in the hirizon is to launch a refreshed range of Coffee Lake processors, with the eight-core, 16-thread Core i9 9900K at the head. With a new line of high core-count Intel chips on the way, AMD’s latest sales lead could be as short-lived as the last.

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