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The top ten best selling CPUs on Amazon are all AMD chips, with the two-year old Ryzen 7 5700X sitting at the tippety-top and Intel's best effort relegated to 12th place
It's red red red, all the way down to number 12.
A look at Amazon's best-selling CPU list right now reveals a top ten domination of AMD processors, with Intel's best effort scraping in at number 12 (via Tom's Hardware). Let's not forget, while the 5700X might be on an older platform and have a couple of years of release time under its belt, it's still a formidable eight-core, 16-thread processor that seems to have caught buyers' attention with its attractive pricing and excellent performance. Whether this is a reflection of a lack of consumer confidence in Intel chips since the (now resolved) crashing debacle over the summer, or simply an acknowledgement of price/performance ratios driving sales overall, is unclear.
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