The breakdown of German retailer MindFactory’s sales show that AMD sold 35,000 units of Ryzen 5000 and Ryzen 3000 CPUs and a scattering of 2nd-gen chips, whereas Intel only managed a tally of just over 5,000 units shifted.

Based on these stats, this was a new high for AMD in terms of overall sales in 2020, and once again the firm held the lion’s share of the CPU market going by these statistics, with 84 percent in terms of units shifted, and revenue.

Ryzen 5000 CPUs accounted for approaching 6,000 units of AMD’s total of 35,000 sales, although it almost certainly would have been more but for stock shortages.

AMD’s bestselling individual processor remained the Ryzen 5 3600 with around 5,200 units sold, just ahead of the 3600XT and 3700X, with the new Ryzen 5 5600X in fourth position with just over 3,000 units shifted.

To be fair, Intel did also witness its best month of 2020, too, in terms of numbers of processors sold, but AMD had a predictably stronger uptick.

Intel’s best-selling individual chip was the Core i7-10700K which sold close to 1,300 units which held the number 12 spot in the rankings of the top CPUs.

While AMD fanboys might become moist over the news, the stats are just for one retailer, but it could be seen as a shift away from Chipzilla particularly when Zen 3-based Ryzen 5000 processors become available in stronger numbers.

Intel needs to get its Rocket Lake chips to market pretty quick to counter the threat from Ryzen 5000. While these chips have been looking good, much will depend on their price against Ryzen 5000.