https://wccftech.com/amd-outselling-intel-by-more-than-double-analyzing-5-year-historical-sales-at-mindfactory-de/

The tech enthusiasts have had their eyes on AMD ever since the first leaks about its upcoming Zen architecture began to leak out – but this is one of the first times that a large online retailer has given us a breakdown of historical sales figures by architectures – proving a conjecture many of us knew to be true. Mindfactory.de is one of the largest German retailers and represents a significant sample size to derive an analysis from.

The data clearly shows that the entire AMD comeback is on the back of Zen architecture alone. In fact, if you look at the chart you will see AMD’s sales increasing sharply as soon as Summit Ridge (Zen 1) launched. In fact, AMD overtook Intel in market share for a very short period of time before 2018 as well. Here is what was really interesting, however, AMD’s Zen architecture launched in 2017, but the customers of the German retailer were forgiving to Intel’s CPU sales until 2H 2018 – which is the point where they apparently had enough.