AMD is doing significantly better than Intel – at least if you use mainboard sales at the German online shop Mindfactory as a basis for evaluation. The Twitter user TechEpiphany regularly publishes the sales figures for the respective calendar week here, giving an insight into which sockets are most popular among Mindfactory customers.
A clear gap is emerging between AMD and Intel mainboards: According to the article, 2,785 mainboards intended for AMD processors were sold in week 7 of this year (from February 12th to 18th); For current Intel CPUs, however, only 470 units were sold during these seven days. This results in a share of 85.56 percent for AMD sockets, at least at Mindfactory. These are divided into 1,725 AM5 and 1,060 AM4 mainboards.
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Even sales of Intel motherboards with LGA1700 or LGA1200 sockets combined can't even begin to keep up. Put in perspective, the latter is virtually extinct. In that week only 30 pieces were sold. LGA1700 mainboards can still look back on 440 units sold. It is not possible to tell from the published articles which mainboard models or at least manufacturers were the most popular.
Although the CPU sales for the current calendar week have not yet been published, a look at the past few weeks shows a similar picture: Here too, Ryzen CPUs are ahead of their Intel competitors The share of 83.81 percent was clearly ahead. By the way: In our own PCGH I/O Hub survey, which we conduct quarterly, AMD-based sockets also clearly outperform the Intel competition.