AMD Ryzen 7800X3D reigns supreme as Arrow Lake crashes in first week of sales
AMD dominate Intel in opening Arrow Lake sales week
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A new sales report has come to light today, highlighting total domination for AMD in Intel’s Arrow Lake opening sales week.
Popular tech reviewer and YouTuber, TechEpiphany, has revealed a worrying CPU sales report today, highlighting CPU units sold and total ordered revenue (from an unknown retailer) during Intel’s Arrow Lake launch week. The sales figures are likely to be from the German retailer, Mindfactory, as we’ve seen TechEpiphany publish both CPU and GPU sales reports from them in the past.
Regardless, the report showcases units sold for around 32 CPUs from both Intel and AMD, with the majority of sales going in favor of Team Red. In fact, the top 20 CPUs sold during the opening week of Intel’s Arrow Lake launch were all AMD, further highlighting Intel’s woes.
From the 770 units sold at this retailer, only 40 of them were Intel chips – giving AMD a whopping 95% share of that small market. If we look at revenue, the numbers aren’t much better for team Blue – with 92.64% of all CPU revenues going in favor of AMD
Intel’s most sold CPU for the launch week wasn’t even one of the new Core Ultra 200 chips. Instead, it was the entry-level Core i5 13400, followed by the i9 14900KF – both selling around the same units (=>10). As we’ve seen in other reports from TechEpiphany, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D still sits at the top of the CPU sales report, selling over 100 more units than its next closest rival. That rival goes to another of AMD’s X3D CPUs, the 5700X3D – which sold around 80 units, respectively.
What does this mean for Intel?
As we reported in our Core Ultra 285K review, this seems like a cleansing period for Intel – a time for rebuilding. The brand has been hammered by several issues over the last 12 months, spanning everything from instability and degradation problems to drops in share price. So, starting a fresh approach under a new moniker – and tackling the bigger issues first – seems like a wise way to go.
Sadly, Intel’s Arrow Lake launch was not a success – but I think we all knew that was going to be the case when the brand openly admitted the new lineup wouldn’t be as powerful as Ryzen’s 7800X3D in the pre launch press materials.
Overall, it looks like Intel has handed an entire generation of consumers over to AMD – potentially looking to cut losses and start a fresh. I mean, there’s nothing wrong with wanting to build a new generation of CPUs around efficiency – and if they can get the gaming right,
