AMD’s Ryzen 7 2700X Hits #2 Spot On Amazon’s Best-selling Processors List

It’s been a mammoth week for AMD’s CPU team, with the company’s latest Ryzen processors proving to deliver a huge wallop for their price. Whereas the original Ryzen launch got off to a rocky start due late-arriving platform updates, you can expect much smoother adoption this time around. At worst, you’ll need an EFI upgrade, and that assumes you’ll be using a last-gen motherboard.

Really, the only issue I can say that I ran into with the second-gen Ryzen is that my 32GB kit of four Corsair 3200MHz sticks wouldn’t operate together on the platform. Two sticks would run fine, but four would result in a non-booting rig. That’s why I tested that PC with 16GB of memory when the others had 32GB, but ultimately, it’s for the better, because if you want the best reliability, you don’t choose an unsupported kit (lesson learned).

Nonetheless, in our look at the 2700X and 2600X, we found them to be absolute powerhouses for their respective price-points. Intel still holds the single-thread and IPC lead, but AMD’s catching up. Where multi-threaded tests are concerned, Ryzen can outright dominate, as long as the scenario doesn’t take advantage of Intel-specific optimizations.

The kind of crazy performance you get with an eight-core sixteen-thread chip clocked at 3.7GHz that sells for $329 makes for a fast-moving product, it appears. Currently, the 2700X is holding position #2 on Amazon’s best-sellers list for CPUs, sitting just behind Intel’s Coffee Lake i7-8700K, and ahead of the popular Ryzen 5 1600.

The top three items here show an interesting juxtaposition. Intel’s chip costs more, despite falling well behind in many (unoptimized) scenarios, yet its chip still costs more. At the same time, AMD includes a good-performing (and good-looking) cooler in the box, whereas Intel doesn’t include one at all with its 8700K. Clearly, AMD is trying really hard to capture more market share, and with its latest top-end chip sitting pretty in the number two spot, its plan seems to be working.