B350 vs x370 for the 2700x

[sammiezlag]

Is AMD Crossfire/Nvidia SLI the ONLY difference between the B350 and x370?

I'm buying the 2700x soon and I have a very small budget so let's take the MSI Gaming Plus for example...
Would there be any difference if I got the B350 instead of the x370 to save some money?

P.S: I'll NEVER use multiple GPUs and I tend to overclock the CPU to 4.15 or 4.2 and I don't think the XFR2 will be worth paying all that money.

 

[jacobweaver800]

Sure, but that's kinda ambiguous. That's 12% of the entire market, and it's clouded by Radeon sales. But it includes the gaming market which amd takes a considerably larger % than 12 and its only for new sales. I had to convert over to Led the lighting for Cracker Barrel Corporate headquarters (huge and multi-building) and fully half or better of the 1500+ pc's there were on amd cpus. The only new cpus were all Intel. Depending on budget and need, the rest might be kept amd or changed to Intel, which just adds to market numbers and I'm guessing much of the market is similar.

Ford has the distinction for having #1 truck sales in the US forever it seems, yet most older trucks on the road are Chevrolet. To me that just means Ford needs replacing a lot more often. Does amd only have 12% of the market because that's all that needs replacing?

That's because Ford sucks, and Chevy is best, but this is a tech forum soo. This may not be super accurate but, Linus Tech Tips has a viewers choice PC where they take note of all the PC parts bought through their link on Amazon and AMD gained almost half of their viewers choices against Intel in overall sales.

 

[Karadjgne]

That and PlayStations use amd 8threads cpus, so wonder if all that was included in the market %. With Amd everywhere, it's hard to imagine they have just 12% of the market, and thats not even including what's inside cellphones etc. I don't think the 'market' that author referred to was specific enough. I'm betting that overall, amd cpus are pretty much neck and neck with Intel sales and the market he referred to was basically just the pre-built section.

 

[Rogue Leader]

While this isn't perfect passmark keeps a marketshare chart as well

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/market_share.html

Pegs AMD around 20% I do believe that number, I mean AMD was NOWHERE in server systems, it was owned by Intel and Xeon. Common corporate lease laptops were all Intel based. All Macs use Intel processors as well (its part of the x86 Market). Its going to take time before AMD is anywhere near neck and neck with Intel but they are clearly headed down that path.

 

[jacobweaver800]

While this isn't perfect passmark keeps a marketshare chart as well

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/market_share.html

Pegs AMD around 20% I do believe that number, I mean AMD was NOWHERE in server systems, it was owned by Intel and Xeon. Common corporate lease laptops were all Intel based. All Macs use Intel processors as well (its part of the x86 Market). Its going to take time before AMD is anywhere near neck and neck with Intel but they are clearly headed down that path.

Threadripper and TR4 may take back some of the server side of things, not to mention Opteron's were pretty popular for a little. Also, when I say almost half the market share I'm talking about for new upgrades not whats out there because of how many computers that are basically all Intel based in large factories and office's.