AMD Ryzen 9800X3D drives 8-core CPU adoption past 6-core chips

The big picture: The CPU-Z survey for the first quarter of 2025 has revealed drastic shifts in multiple areas of the PC sector as users upgrade their CPUs, GPUs, and other components. Although Intel and Nvidia maintain market dominance in processors and graphics cards, respectively, AMD has made significant strides against both. Telemetry results from CPU-Z for April 1 show that eight-core processors are finally more popular than six-core chips. Monitor and GPU adoption also saw notable swings. CPUs with six cores, such as AMD's venerable Ryzen 5 3600X, have remained popular among budget-minded users for years. Upon its 2019 release, TechSpot labeled it the best all-around value CPU. However, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, which TechSpot crowned the new king of gaming CPUs last year, appears to have dethroned it. CPU-Z Q1'25 Stats now live! 8-core CPUs overtake 6-core as top choice 27" monitors surpass 24" as most common Nvidia GPUs down 6.4% to 67.9% ntel CPUs down 10% to 56.3% More det ... Read full article.