{"id":64657,"date":"2014-05-26T14:06:30","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T12:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=64657"},"modified":"2014-05-26T14:07:50","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T12:07:50","slug":"amd-vs-nvidia-vs-intel-who-is-king-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/64657-amd-vs-nvidia-vs-intel-who-is-king-in-sa","title":{"rendered":"AMD vs Nvidia vs Intel – who is king in SA?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We always drool when the latest AMD Radeon<\/a>\u00a0or Nvidia<\/a>\u00a0graphics card is released, and we love to read about new Intel processors and how much they cost<\/a>, but do you ever wonder which brand of CPU and GPU dominates the South African PC gaming market?<\/p>\n

We spoke to a large local ICT distributor and two PC building companies to see where gamers\u00a0have been spending their money in 2014.<\/p>\n

CPUs<\/h3>\n

PC builders\u00a0Evetech<\/a>\u00a0said both AMD and Intel CPUs were selling well from their side, but Intel was easily outperforming its rival in 2014 so far.<\/p>\n

“Intel is the clear winner, but the more entry level gaming machines favour the AMD CPUs. For those on a lower budget, AMD is ahead, while Intel is used in the more mid-to-high end gaming machines,” said Evetech.<\/p>\n

PC builder Rebel Tech<\/a>\u00a0said they too are selling more Intel CPUs – a favourite with their customers.<\/p>\n

ICT distributor Rectron<\/a>, who stock and sell Intel processors but not AMD, said their CPU sales have been stable, but they expected them to increase as the year progressed.<\/p>\n

“Intel recently launched their Haswell Refresh product and we will most likely see a pickup in numbers now that consumers have access to the new items. This is something that usually heavily influences buying patterns,” said Rectron.<\/p>\n

Figures provided by research firm IC Insights show that Intel lead the international market share ranks in MPU<\/a> (microprocessors – which inlclude PC CPUs) sales for 2013. Intel supplied 62% of the market, while AMD came in fourth with 4.8%.<\/p>\n

Round 1 to Intel.<\/p>\n

\"Intel<\/a>

Intel Core i7<\/p><\/div>\n

GPUs<\/h3>\n

Can AMD make up the ground it lost to Intel by beating Nvidia with its Radeon graphics cards? Unfortunately not.<\/p>\n

Both PC builders Evetech and Rebel Tech, and distributor Rectron said that Nvidia was leading the pack in performance stats and sales figures.<\/p>\n

“When the AMD R-Series cards launched we could not keep up with the demand, stock usually ran out within a couple of days and then sold out again when we received more. But, Nvidia leads the charts with performance and sales figures,” said Evetech.<\/p>\n

Rectron experienced a similar trend. “AMD has closed the gap massively with the R9 series cards<\/a>, but Nvidia still holds the majority of the sales.”<\/p>\n

According to a recent\u00a0John Peddie Research report<\/a>, AMD and Nvidia held almost identical international market share for Q1 of 2014 – 16.7% and 16.6% respectively.<\/p>\n

\"AMD<\/a>

AMD Radeon R9 270<\/p><\/div>\n

Okay AMD, Intel, and Nvidia fans – give us the low down on why your preferred brand is the best, in the comments and forum.<\/p>\n

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