AMD with a record: CPU market shares at all-time high

AMD continues its success in the CPU market. In the first quarter of 2025, the processor manufacturer was able to expand its market shares. Intel remains the market leader, but loses the ground despite price reductions. An AMD product in particular proves to be a seller.

AMD is getting closer to Intel

While Intel is in the crisis and tries to find a radical rejuvenation cure back on the train, AMD has great success. Especially with the new X3D processors, the sales figures literally exploded. While availability has been increasing since January, the price of the popular Ryzen 7 9800x3d finally drops. Accordingly, the company has a furious start to the year 2025.

The chip manufacturer from Santa Clara, which already grew with CPU market shares at the end of last year, was able to increase its overall market share in X86 processors to 27.1 percent in the first quarter. Intel continues to hold a significant lead at 72.9 percent, but has to watch how the competitor continuously makes grounds.

Record in almost all areas

AMD presents itself particularly strongly in the desktop segment. Contrary to the usual seasonal trend after the Christmas season, the company recorded an exceptionally high demand for high-end desktop processors. This affected above all the latest granite ridge processors mentioned in the X3D variants, which are popular with gamers and content manufacturers.

They are real sales hit. Like Mercury Research (via PC World) In a report, AMD was also able to significantly increase in the server area. The processor deliveries rose by 20 percent compared to the previous year. The fourth generation’s Epyc processors (Codename “Genoa”) have become particularly established in the Datacenter area, where energy efficiency and computing power per watt are increasingly important factors.

CPU market share (desktop) Q1 2025 Q4 2024 Q1 2024

Intel lowers the prices

Meanwhile, Intel is trying to counteract the loss of market share with aggressive price cuts. Especially in the mid-range segment, the group has significantly reduced the prices for its 14th generation core processors. So far, however, this strategy has only shown a limited effect, since AMD continues to offer an attractive price-performance ratio with its Ryzen processors. But it is not optimal for AMD in all areas. The company had to accept loss in the notebook segment.

Here the market share dropped from 23.7 to 22.5 percent. The decline is attributed to a weaker consumer demand, while Intel benefits from business with corporate customers. However, the upcoming Strix Point Apus could help AMD to make up ground again in this area. Another interesting trend is emerging.

The market share of ARM processors, including PCs, Chromebooks and Apple Macs, reached the 13.9 percent mark for the first time-an increase of 10.9 percent compared to the fourth quarter of 2024. This development underlines the increasing diversification of the processor market, which has long been dominated almost exclusively by X86 architectures.

AMD with historical success

AMD’s current market share remarkable. Five years ago, the company’s share in the X86 market was less than 20 percent. The introduction of the Zen architecture in 2017 marked a turning point that enabled AMD to equal or even surpass in areas such as computing power per watt and multithreading performance.

Analysts expect a continuation of this trend for the rest of the year 2025. With the Zen 6 architecture expected for 2026, AMD could win further market share in the long run, especially if Intel continues to deal with delays in its new manufacturing processes, mediocre performance and security gaps in its CPUs.

Joshua Bato