New market statistics present that AMD’s B650 motherboards are rising in reputation amongst AM5 “Ryzen” PC builders because the purple workforce continues its sturdy DIY progress.
AMD AM5 “B650” & AM4 “B550” Motherboards Are The Most Well-liked PC Builders Selection As Ryzen Continues DIY Dominance
Korean analysis outlet, Danawa, has shared motherboard statistics for the AMD Ryzen platform from December 2022 to October 2023, giving us an concept of what are the most well-liked shopper decisions for Ryzen PCs. The statistics cowl a number of common AMD chipsets corresponding to B650, B550, A520, A320, and others (X670, X620, X570, and so on).
So beginning within the December 2022 time-frame, it looks like AMD’s B550 chipset was essentially the most dominant one among customers since Ryzen 5000 CPUs have been accessible with nice reductions. Moreover, AMD additionally launched low-cost Ryzen 5000/4000 choices for AM4 customers which led to extend in gross sales for the B550 motherboards.
So in early 2023, the AMD B550 motherboards have been the main alternative for patrons, and we won’t argue with this truth contemplating that not solely did these motherboards come at reasonably priced costs however the platform price itself was additionally very interesting to the funds plenty.
With the debut of AMD’s Ryzen 7000 collection on the brand new AM5 platform again in September 2022, customers have been initially reluctant to improve to the brand new platform because of increased costs that have been related to upgrading from older motherboards to a brand new one and assist restricted to DDR5 reminiscence which was costly at the moment.
Nevertheless, as AMD expanded its portfolio of AM5-based processors, particularly with the introduction of fashions outfitted with 3D-V Cache such because the Ryzen 7 7800X3D and even Non-3D fashions such because the Ryzen 5 7500F, each of that are among the many best-selling chips at a number of international retailers, the corporate noticed a shift in tendencies, and other people began switching to the newer fashions, primarily because of waves of “value corrections”, adopted by a drop in value of DDR5 reminiscence. Within the midst of it, AMD’s B650 motherboards noticed big traction in gross sales, making it the present best option for customers.
The B650 platform is the best choice if somebody is seeking to swap to AM5, because it brings assist for PCIe Gen 5 graphics playing cards as properly, permitting customers to change to premium choices inside the GPU trade. Furthermore, the motherboard additionally comes with no less than one Gen 5 NVME slot, which updates customers to the fashionable switch sort, making it the best choice for individuals who are on the lookout for one of the best of each worlds. Such causes led to the B650 socket sort skyrocketing gross sales, and it overthrew B550 motherboards, going into August 2023.
AMD’s B650 (AM5) motherboards at present quantity to 34.43% market share in South Korean gross sales adopted by A520 (AM4) at 23.26%, B550 (AM4) at 18.3% and others are 17.67%. Though the value continues to be excessive in comparison with B550 AM4 motherboards, the B650 AM5 motherboards supply a number of nice causes corresponding to those we talked about above which have made customers pay within the further sum. Related statistics are noticed by TechEpiphany of their newest compilation of gross sales figures from Germany’s largest retailer, MindFactory which may be seen under:
⚡️Mainboards Retail Gross sales Week 50 (mindfactory)
☝️ highest share for AMD builds this yrℹ️ Models#AMD: 4190 models bought, 84.82%, ASP: 166 (-2)#Intel: 750, 15.18%, ASP: 207 (+13)
ℹ️ Income$AMD: 693943, 81.75%$INTC: 154907, 18.25%
ℹ️ By socket
AM5: 2310
AM4: 1880
1700: 715… pic.twitter.com/Bg1aX6zsdo— TechEpiphany (@TechEpiphanyYT) December 16, 2023
Furthermore, the market analysis has additionally proven us which producer has attracted essentially the most consideration within the B650 phase, and it appears to be like like Gigabyte at present dominates with a market share of fifty.28% whereas the remainder of the distributors (MSI, ASUS, ASRock) are at sub-20% ranges.
Lastly, it appears to be like like AMD’s Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU continues to be the most popular chip on the block with its insane gaming efficiency, unprecedented ranges of effectivity, and excellent worth making it lead the “Greatest Promoting” charts at each Amazon and Newegg. There isn’t any denying that AMD has actually pushed Intel again within the DIY phase however we hope for extra competitors within the funds (sub-$200 US) value phase the place Intel nonetheless has sturdy choices. AMD can also be planning a number of AM4 CPUs and a brand new APU household for AM5 which is predicted in February 2023 so keep tuned as we get extra information on them.
Information Sources: Dawana DPG, Harukaze5719
