In temporary: Custom PC builder Puget Systems has launched its 2023 Hardware Trends survey, revealing what its orders regarded like over the 12 months of final 12 months. When it involves consumer CPUs, Intel held a substantial lead over AMD, however Team Red dominated within the workstation. On the software program facet, the quantity of orders with Windows 11 elevated as Windows 10 system gross sales declined.
As Puget’s programs are aimed toward high-end workflows for content material creation, engineering, and scientific computing, its gross sales are weighted extra towards workstations, although it nonetheless sells PCs with consumer processors, which it defines as AMD Ryzen and Intel Core CPUs.
Intel has been main the consumer orders part since January 2022, and final 12 months was no totally different. Team Blue’s Intel Core i9 13900KS launched within the first quarter of 2023, whereas its 14th-gen collection arrived within the last quarter, serving to guarantee Intel chips had been present in about 80% of Puget’s consumer CPU orders. AMD did launch the favored Ryzen 7900X3D/7950X3D in Q2, but it surely nonetheless solely managed a 20% share. It’ll be attention-grabbing to see what affect the current Ryzen 8000 and upcoming Ryzen 9000 collection have on this 12 months’s orders.
When it involves workstation orders, it was AMD that dominated in 2023, with its Threadripper Pro making up the lion’s share of gross sales. Despite the Threadripper 7000 collection solely arriving in December, it nonetheless managed to almost attain the identical mixed order numbers because the Threadripper Pro 5000 and 7000. Intel’s Xeon chips, in the meantime, had been solely in round 10% of orders.
Puget additionally regarded on the OS facet of issues. Microsoft shall be completely happy to be taught that Windows 11 is now utilized in about 80% of Puget’s programs, although round 10% of prospects opted to downgrade to Windows 10, which is about the identical share of individuals who select Linux.
Windows 11 is utilized by round 42% of Steam survey individuals, about 12% lower than Windows 10. That’s nonetheless higher than the worldwide view, the place Windows 10 is present in about 7 out of 10 PCs.
Puget makes use of Nvidia GPUs in its programs virtually solely, but it surely nonetheless supplied a breakdown for its GeForce gaming and Professional (previously Quadro) orders. GeForce made up about 80% of the programs on this class.
Finally, Puget in contrast SATA, NVMe, and Platter storage (main drive) orders. Unsurprisingly, NVMe drives had been in 95% of orders. The firm writes that a handful of specialty accounts that particularly want SATA for one purpose or one other saved this from being 100%.
