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AMD users dividing themselves

by on22 December 2016


GPU and CPU loyalty no longer guaranteed

PCPartPicker has been looking at the trends for users and they are noticing that AMD CPU buyers are not always buying AMD GPUs.

Of the 25,780 builds on PCPartPicker from the last 31 months with a price point between $450 - $5,000, 19 percent included an AMD CPU.

Recently, though, cheaper builds have been made with AMD gear than Intel CPUs. The builds with an AMD CPU were $967 on average versus the Intel CPU builds, which were on average $1,570.

For 36 months, brand loyalty to AMD pushed AMD CPU builders to choose AMD graphics cards at a much higher rate than Intel CPU builders. Over half of machines with an AMD CPU also had an AMD GPU while 19 per cent of builds with an Intel CPU included an AMD GPU.

But in the last six months, AMD has started to lose even more ground to Intel and to Nvidia. On the CPU builds, only 10 percent of gamers building on PCPartPicker were opting to buy an AMD CPU.

Among these, the percentage that decided to pair their AMD CPU with an AMD GPU dropped to 51 percent. The figures suggest that AMD’s brand loyalty is slipping – which is fair enough when you consider they were asked to wait a year for Zen.

Last modified on 22 December 2016
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