Puget Systems Posts 2023 CPU Market Trend: Intel Leads In Client Desktop, AMD Dominates The Workstation Segment

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Puget Systems has released its CPU market trend report for 2023 showing Intel leading the desktop mainstream space while AMD remains the workstation king.

Puget Systems is a custom computer business that primarily specializes in workstation systems. The company has released its annual Hardware Trends Survey, which fortunately focuses on client and workstation sales. Here, we will delve into processors specifically since this segment tends to have a more diverse consumer audience.

Speaking of the client segment first, Puget System has disclosed that with the debut of Intel's 12th Gen Alder Lake lineup, the firm witnessed a massive market return and has now upheld this trend, even with current-gen processors. The firm says that the use of Intel CPUs was in more than 80% of their orders, which shows the impact Team Blue has had on client consumers in modern days. This could change when we see the debut of AMD's Zen 5 CPUs, but Intel is in the lead for now.

AMD on the other hand was focused on more premium desktop SKUs on the AM5 platform & only recently expanded it in the sub-$200 US category while simultaneously releasing new AM4 budget offerings.

However, on the workstation side of things, AMD has strangled Intel to the very bottom. AMD's Threadripper CPUs have dominated this segment for the past two to three years, giving Intel no space, especially after the debut of the 5000 series. With the Threadripper 7000 lineup, Team Red also gained current-gen superiority, and Intel's Xeon Scalable SKUs weren't much visible in the markets. AMD managed to gain a whopping 95% market share in the orders received by Puget Systems. Still, the share did see a minor decline going into the end of 2023, mainly due to the HPC capabilities found in the Intel ecosystem.

The following are some of the key points of the market trends of 2023 report:

Intel continues to have a lock in the client CPU space for us, with Intel Core out-selling AMD Ryzen by 4:1. However, AMD has a massive lead in the workstation space, with AMD Threadripper and Threadripper PRO outpacing Intel Xeon by nearly 10:1.

GPU and storage sales were fairly consistent: market share for the NVIDIA RTX cards increased a bit relative to GeForce, and NVMe drives continue to dominate for storage.

Lastly, Windows 11 is by far the most common OS used in our systems, but a 10% minority are still opting to downgrade to Windows 10.

The survey from Puget Systems was indeed something to look at, as it did depict the general sentiments among consumers involved in both client and server segments. However, it also shows that the competition within individual branches of the markets is one-sided, which means we aren't seeing much diversity. I do hope this changes with next-gen releases.

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News Source: Puget Systems