Most Europeans now prefer AMD CPUs as sentiment turns against Intel
Looking at the future purchase intentions of European tech enthusiasts
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AMD’s CPUs are again winning big againstIntel, not just in current sales, aswe’ve previously seen, but also sentiment in terms of future processor purchases that consumers might make, at least according to a new report.
The survey from the European Hardware Association (EHA) canvassed the opinions of tech enthusiasts across Europe (specifically folks who read EHA publications), and found that they “expressed a distinct preference when asked about the next desktop processor that they would buy, with over 60% choosing AMD”. Obviously that leaves 40% in the Intel camp.
This is a big change from last year, when the picture was reversed, and 60% preferred Intel. It shows the major impact that Ryzen 3000 processors have had in 2019, grabbing a huge slice of the desktop enthusiast CPU pie as we’ve seen in various differentstatsandreportsthat have emerged throughout this year.
Another way to look at this is that AMD has gained 50% more supporters in the last year, which is a huge leap, without a doubt.
EHA chairman Koen Crijnsnoted: “The last three years has seen AMD gain a lot of momentum in the enthusiast segment. With the Ryzen series of CPUs, AMD has eliminated any lingering performance gaps, while offering a great price/performance ratio.”
Of course, Intel has not only had to fight a battle in terms of that price/performance value proposition offered by AMD, but has also beenplagued by production and supply issueswith its Core family of CPUs.
Talking graphics
The EHA survey also found AMD had gained ground in the GPU arena, too, although asother reports have indicated, the company is still way behindNvidia.
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Almost 23% are in favor of AMD’s graphics cards, which obviously still leaves Nvidia winning big, but AMD is at least making progress, considering that back in May, only 19% of those the EHA surveyed chose AMD over Nvidia.
As ever, we have to be careful about exactly how much we read into just a single report, but it’s no real surprise that tech enthusiasts are starting to more heavily skew towards AMD when it comes to processors.
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Darren is a freelancer writing news and features for TechRadar (and occasionally T3) across a broad range of computing topics including CPUs, GPUs, various other hardware, VPNs, antivirus and more. He has written about tech for the best part of three decades, and writes books in his spare time (his debut novel - ‘I Know What You Did Last Supper’ - was published by Hachette UK in 2013).
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