AMD Ryzen processors are racking up sales that could worry Intel

By Darren Allan

Fresh figures have come to light which show that AMD’s Ryzen processors are continuing to sell at quite some speed, with one particular model making excellent headway, and worrying Intel’s most popular CPUs.

These statistics come from Mindfactory.de (as spotted by Wccftech.com), a German retailer which has spilled the beans on processor sales before, and this time it has revealed stats on historical sales of AMD and Intel CPUs to date.

The best performer for AMD is the Ryzen 5 1600, which is the seventh bestselling processor of all-time (Intel holds the top six spots). The Ryzen 5 1600 is a six-core (12-thread) CPU which can boost to 3.6GHz out-of-the-box, and can now be had for around $160 (or about £145 in the UK) following price cuts after the launch of Ryzen 2nd Generation chips.

This temptingly-priced processor has sold approaching 25,000 units at Mindfactory.de in just over a year since its launch, nudging past AMD’s previous bestseller CPU, the FX-8350, which has sold only slightly less. However, the difference is that the FX-8350 was released seven years ago, and only shifted 12,000 units in its first year on sale.

The Ryzen 5 1600 has managed around double that in …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components