AMD Takes Good CPU Share from Intel in Q2 2017
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bigfutus
Yay for AMD, but don't rest on your laurels.
Maddness
That is simply outstanding news. A big well done to AMD. About time some real competition for Intel. Intel really needed a quick in the butt for these past few years. Such incremental changes in development.
Now if only Vega could some how bring a miracle to the table. But alas, most of AMD's R&D has gone to RyZen and the CPU side of things. Still this is a fantastic way for AMD to get back into the red. Who knows, but the future is looking much brighter for us the consumer. Finally some good choices.
Silva
I hope AMD can keep innovating with Zen and Navi is not the fail Vega is turning out to be.
We, as consumers, need the old days of 2004/06 competition.
Mufflore
It was a data blip before the days average took hold.
wavetrex
May be a blip now, but at current prices I'm guessing more and more people will buy Ryzens (and soon Threadripppers)
I'm certainly getting a TR sometime later this year... from 6 cores to 14 or 16... will be a MASSIVE jump for my video editing/transcoding activities.
Mufflore
The point of data collection and reporting is to not rely on guesses.
When data is displayed before collection is complete needs to be considered.
Then you dont need to guess, just wait and see.
Optimism is great as long as its not blind.
nz3777
Great job Amd-Finally they are back!
user1
the steam hardware survey is not an accurate source of information.
Han2K
I guess he means steam numbers are biased towards both gaming and low end rig users.
IMHO is not easy to thrive on Steam Hardware Survey so the increase of AMD users is signifiative.
Prince Valiant
Are pricing rumors floating around yet? They've been pretty accurate so far.
schmidtbag
I wonder how much higher it'd be if the BIOS tweaks worked from day 0. That put a hefty dent in Ryzen's reputation.
Solfaur
Finally, and the gap will come even closer until Intel comes out with a new architecture (might take a while).
Mufflore
Finally what?
schmidtbag
Until Intel makes something new. To my understanding, they've been using the same base architecture since 2008, though it seemed to be heavily revised in 2011 with Sandy Bridge.
Of course, there were some significant architectural changes in between, such as using FinFETs in Ivy Bridge or transitioning to DDR4 with Skylake. Aside from that, things haven't changed much in a long while. When Intel finally creates something new, AMD is likely to lose some marketshare.
The thing is, I'm not sure Intel is going to bother with a new architecture any time soon, at least not in a way we'd expect. They're so close to reaching the limits of silicon and despite the architectural differences in Ryzen, it just doesn't seem possible to get more performance out of x86 CPUs without requiring all software to be re-designed and re-compiled. Bulldozer was a good example of how conformity matters more than creating a theoretically better design.
Mufflore
I was wondering what he thought the graph showed.
Or perhaps he meant something else.
Solfaur
I meant the gap of market share between Intel and AMD, which according to that graph will get smaller as AMD gains and Intel loses.
Mufflore
Unfortunately they have wrongly labelled the graph as "AMD vs Intel Market Share".
The graph is submissions of hardware used to run their benchmark.
They show the quarters results before the quarter is over.
It isnt always a safe measure of the users of their software and certainly not of marketshare.
Solfaur
Oh, I see. Either way, I'm glad AMD is back on track in the CPU department. It's been years since I even considered going anything other than Intel.
XenthorX
I'm afraid we will all use cloud computing by then. Just like some Overwatch pro team using high performance cloud gaming solution.
Mufflore
Thats what ended my AMD days on CPU and I bought 5, maybe 6 AMD CPUs in a row before that.
They still havent given me reason to change back.
