Will AMD's strong performance in 2019 continue to strengthen in 2020?

At the beginning of 2019, Nvidia is firmly on the GPU throne with the RTX 20 series chips. Intel also maintains its competitiveness with a single core chip with excellent performance. However, during this year, many changes have occurred in the market. AMD has relied on new products with excellent performance and low prices. Products, competing with two chip vendors, shaken the market that has not changed for a long time, and smoothly ranked among the first-tier chip vendors. So what about 2020?

Initial release

At the beginning of 2019, AMD announced the news of the Ryzen 3000 series chips at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), and also introduced the company's first generation of AMD Radeon VII graphics cards using 7-nanometer chips.

According to "Techradar" report, although the performance of Radeon VII is not as good as Nvidia's best graphics card GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, it is enough to rival RTX 2080. And the test results show that AMD's new graphics cards dissipate heat faster than Nvidia's RTX series, breaking the external perception that "AMD products are prone to overheating".

Radeon VII may not be the king of the graphics industry, but the price is very high, and the price is even lower than Nvidia's GeForce RTX 2080.

CPU and GPU perform well against Intel and Nvidia

After the Ryzen 3000 processor was released in July, AMD has gained more praise, and bright test results have appeared on different evaluation platforms. It quickly captured the consumer CPU market, and even beat Intel CPUs in some areas. The performance was evaluated as the best CPU by foreign media.

The mid-range Ryzen 5 3600 and 3600X processors have become the new darlings of the e-sports industry, running more than Intel's best CPU processors. In addition, the Ryzen 9 3950X, launched in November, also challenged Intel's Core i9-9920X processor at $ 1,199 at a cheap price of $ 749.

After the introduction of the Ryzen 3000 series of CPUs, AMD also sold mid-range graphics cards Radeon RX 5700 and RX 5700 XT, and these graphics cards are also less expensive than Nvidia's GeForce RTX 2060 and 2070 products.

Converting the CPU and GPU to the 7-nanometer process has greatly increased the competitiveness of AMD. Although the company has not yet launched products that can compete with Nvidia's top graphics processors, the current mid-range products are impressive. Some even set the best running record in history.

In addition, according to the Techradar report, German retailer Mindfactory pointed out that in November 2019, the company sold five times more AMD processors than Intel processors.

Over the past few months, AMD has also frequently ranked on the Amazon Web site's best-selling CPU list, and even dominated the list by different chips, pushing Intel out of the top 10.

In a hardware survey conducted by the American gaming platform Steam, AMD has also shown amazing progress. About 20.5% of Steam users now use AMD processors, an increase of 8% from two years ago.

Undiminished kinetic energy is expected to continue to grow in 2020

According to the "Market Realist" report, after AMD announced the financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2019, RBC Capital Markets raised the company's target price from $ 50 to $ 53 per share. In the broad market. "

And because the company is optimistic that the demand for gaming chips and data center chips in 2020 will continue to rise, Royal Bank of Canada also raised its full-year forecast for AMD.

In addition, investment bank Piper Jaffray analyst Harsh Kumar also raised AMD's target price from $ 35 to $ 40, believing that AMD can continue to seize the market through Intel's CPU shortage.

Looking forward to 2020, AMD has now completed the design of the Zen 3 architecture and expects to launch chips based on this architecture by the end of 2020. As in the past, these new chips should also work in the AM4 slot, lowering the threshold for users who already have Ryzen systems. The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in 2020 is likely to be a great opportunity for AMD to announce new graphics cards opportunity.

Because Microsoft and Sony have plans to launch new game consoles in 2020, and both use AMD hardware, this also allows AMD to shine in the game controller field.

2019 is a very good year for AMD. At present, it seems that AMD is also promising in 2020.