> It's important to note that because PassMark's market share data is based on benchmark submissions it counts actual systems in use, rather than systems sold.<p>So AMD's market share would be overstated? I don't think a lot of machines get PassMark run on them, most would be enthusiasts or review sites benchmarking them. Ryzen has recently gotten a <i>lot</i> of attention. Compare that to the relative snoozefest that is/was Kaby Lake.<p>Dell, HP etc. machines sold for home/business use would outnumber enthusiast builds ... ten-to-one?<p>Steam's Hardware Survey [1] would be one to keep an eye on, although it hasn't been updated for June and would probably favour Intel because of Steam's audience: gaming benchmarks show Ryzen is competitive but in terms of highest performance for gaming Intel has the upper hand.<p>[1] <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey" rel="nofollow">http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey</a>
"Mindfactory.de (Large german online store) CPU Market Share"<p><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NQU0FtsxI6qrX1ioDIOKMiFhZ9uBVClK29tf4vYjpUk/edit?usp=drive_web" rel="nofollow">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NQU0FtsxI6qrX1ioDIOK...</a>
AMD strategy is very ambitious: attack on desktop, workstation, and server. Can't wait for buying a Ryzen Threadripper (workstation CPU) with up to 16 cores (32 threads), DDR4 quad-channel, and huge L3 cache.
I hope they converge towards the middle and stay there until ARM takes over completely (which it will, within the next decade or so). I'm waiting for Threadripper and for AMD to address Linux-related problems with Ryzen (GCC crashes, general stability, etc), but we did build a couple of boxes with Ryzen at work to benchmark and optimize software for, and they hold their own against Intel performance wise, in spite of narrower SIMD.