Stefan Mileschin

Cleaning Intel’s clock

AMD’s Ryzen 5000 processors have helped the company hit new highs for sales of its CPUs, according to one European retailer.

The breakdown of German retailer MindFactory’s sales show that AMD sold 35,000 units of Ryzen 5000 and Ryzen 3000 CPUs and a scattering of 2nd-gen chips, whereas Intel only managed a tally of just over 5,000 units shifted.

Based on these stats, this was a new high for AMD in terms of overall sales in 2020, and once again the firm held the lion’s share of the CPU market going by these statistics, with 84 percent in terms of units shifted, and revenue.

Ryzen 5000 CPUs accounted for approaching 6,000 units of AMD’s total of 35,000 sales, although it almost certainly would have been more but for stock shortages.

AMD’s bestselling individual processor remained the Ryzen 5 3600 with around 5,200 units sold, just ahead of the 3600XT and 3700X, with the new Ryzen 5 5600X in fourth position with just over 3,000 units shifted.

To be fair, Intel did also witness its best month of 2020, too, in terms of numbers of processors sold, but AMD had a predictably stronger uptick.

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