With 92% of monthly revenue from CPU sales, AMD controls the majority of the German processor market. With the newest models hardly in demand, Intel was left with a mere 7.8% of the market.

According to Mindfactory report, the bestselling processor was AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D with 8,390 units sold in January. Ryzen 5 7600X3D and Ryzen 7 7800X3D also performed well, selling 2,430 and 1,640 units respectively. AMD's older models, including the Ryzen 5700X3D, also remain in demand.

Intel couldn't even break into the top 20 bestselling processors. The first model Core i5 14600KF was only on the 30th place. The newest Arrow Lake processors are not popular at all: the flagship Core Ultra 9 285K was bought only 10 times during the month.

AMD's total sales in January amounted to 23,615 units against 2010 for Intel. AMD also holds 71.8% of the AM5 platform market, while AM4 remains more popular than all Intel platforms combined.

The RX 9070 and RX 9060, which will compete with the RTX 4070/5070 and RTX 4060/5060, will be part of the initial release of the RX 9000 series. In order to finalize the new graphics cards and provide more aggressive pricing, AMD has delayed their announcement. 

The bad news is that owners of older AMD graphics cards won't be able to update since leaked drivers confirm that FSR 4, a new scaling technology, will only be supported on RDNA 4. Since NVIDIA's rival DLSS 2.0+ is compatible with older RTX cards, this could lead to dissatisfaction.

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