2024 felt like the year of AMD, and while many were underwhelmed by the launch of the Ryzen 9000 processors, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D met all expectations to become the current best CPU for gaming. So, after dominating the CPU sales in December 2024 – a trend we also witnessed over at Amazon US, it doesn’t come as a surprise to see that AMD's AM5 and AM4 motherboards were significantly more in demand than Intel alternatives.

Difference between AMD and Intel sales

According to a post by TechEpiphany on X (formerly Twitter), AMD sold 6605 units while Intel sold 972 in total, a difference of 5633 units. This is according to stats from Mindfactory (MF), a large German retailer. AMD’s average selling price at MF was 168, and Intel’s was 175, meaning Intel boards went for slightly more than Team Red, but the numbers show just how far ahead AMD is.

In terms of percentage, 87.14% of all the motherboards sold in December 2024 had an AMD chipset, while Team Blue saw a much lower demand with 12.86%. However, TechEpiphany put in the work and gave us the numbers for each major chipset.

Unsurprisingly, the most popular socket was AM5, which sold 3995 units, and AM4 was a close second with 2,610 units. A couple of examples of CPUs using the AM5 socket include the wildly popular 7800X3D and 9800X3D, and of course their respective 7000 and 9000 series siblings (plus the 8000 series APUs). Boards with Intel chipsets failed to break the 1,000 mark; LGA 1700 was the biggest contributor with 845 units sold.

The newly released LGA 1851 mainboards for Intel's 15th generation only sold 90 units, which isn't massively surprising as fans weren’t too happy with the lack of generation-over-generation improvement, especially when it came to gaming performance. As a reference, in our Core Ultra 9 285K review, the 14900K had better gaming results in some tests.

Again, it is important to know that these numbers don't paint a picture of global sales as this data was taken from Mindfactory, a popular German retail store. However, even if it was for one retailer, AMD steamrolled Intel, and we're excited to see how 2025 will go down as Intel is also making waves in the budget and mid-range GPU market segment (firstly with the Intel Arc B580), which AMD is now targeting, stepping away from the high-end options.

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