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  • AMD dominates Amazon CPU sales, but Intel still fights back

    Although the market share would tell you otherwise, the battle between AMD and Intel is quite fierce right now, and it’s AMD that often tops the list of the best processors in the last couple of years. Intel, while it holds a bigger part of the CPU market, is less of a go-to for gamers than AMD these days, and this is reflected in Amazon sales. Just yesterday, AMD held the top 15 spots on the list of Amazon’s CPU best sellers. Today, Intel is making its way back.

    As spotted by TechEpiphany on X (Twitter), AMD really dominated Amazon CPU sales just recently. Every single CPU in the top 15 belonged to AMD, with Intel nowhere to be seen. Surprisingly, the top processor turned out to be the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, which is a favorite among gamers.

    Why is that a surprise? Well, the 9800X3D isn’t cheap — it still costs $480. Moreover, it’s not always in stock. Still, the gamers clearly know that it is the best gaming CPU, and so it continues to win even when matched up against some much more budget-friendly options. The second spot belonged to the Ryzen 5 5500, which is a six-core CPU, followed by the Ryzen 5 5600X — also a six-core chip. Both belong to the Zen 3 generation of CPUs, so they’re quite old by comparison, too.

    In fact, the top list showed a good mix of generations, which tells us that AMD is doing a good job of keeping older hardware both relevant and in stock. You’ll find Zen 3, Zen 4, and Zen 5 CPUs all sharing the top 15 list.

    Checking the best-seller list today tells us a different story, though. AMD still dominates — that much is clear. However, Intel’s managed to score the second, third, 12th, and 13th spots on the list. The catch? Three out of four of those CPUs belong to an older generation that’s now significantly cheaper, and thus better value than current-gen offerings. You’ll find three Alder Lake CPUs and one Raptor Lake CPU, the Core i7-14700K.

    Intel’s latest generation of processors, Arrow Lake, is not present in the list of the top 50 CPUs sold by Amazon. This shows that many people opt for the cheaper Intel CPUs or just turn to AMD, which is a huge contrast from just a few years ago.

  • Ryzen 9 9950X3D review: AMD irons out nearly every single downside of 3D V-Cache

    Even three years later, AMD’s high-end X3D-series processors still aren’t a thing that most people need to spend extra money on—under all but a handful of circumstances, your GPU will be the limiting factor when you’re running games, and few non-game apps benefit from the extra 64MB chunk of L3 cache that is the processors’ calling card. They’ve been a reasonably popular way for people with old AM4 motherboards to extend the life of their gaming PCs, but for AM5 builds, a regular Zen 4 or Zen 5 CPU will not bottleneck modern graphics cards most of the time.

    But high-end PC building isn’t always about what’s rational, and people spending $2,000 or more to stick a GeForce RTX 5090 into their systems probably won’t worry that much about spending a couple hundred extra dollars to get the fastest CPU they can get. That’s the audience for the new Ryzen 9 9950X3D, a 16-core, Zen 5-based, $699 monster of a processor that AMD begins selling tomorrow.

    If you’re only worried about game performance (and if you can find one), the Ryzen 7 9800X3D is the superior choice, for reasons that will become apparent once we start looking at charts. But if you want fast game performance and you need as many CPU cores as you can get for other streaming or video production or rendering work, the 9950X3D is there for you. (It’s a little funny to me that this a chip made almost precisely for the workload of the PC building tech YouTubers who will be reviewing it.)  It’s also a processor that Intel doesn’t have any kind of answer to.

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