AMD’s B650 Motherboards Are The Most Popular Among Socket AM5 Offerings

Two years on since the introduction of Socket AM5 motherboards, Korean research firm Danawa has published a report on the market share among all AMD Socket AM5 users – and the B650 chipset has shown dominating the market. While this research is only conducted within South Korea, the data should give us a rough idea of how the market may look at large.

AMD B650 Dominates The Market

The overwhelmingly popular option among AMD 600 series chipsets goes to the mid-range and yet affordable B650 chipset which, as of May 2024, has occupied a whopping 80.9% of the market share. The second-largest chunk of this pie goes to the budget A620 chipset, taking a 10.9% of the share; while the high-end X670E chipset gets a 5.6% share. Both B650E and X670 are relatively rare models to get, and this gets reflected on the chart with 2% and 0.6% of the market share respectively.

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Danawa’s report also covers the form factor used by these motherboard owners. At 88.7%, the significant majority of AMD B650 users have a micro-ATX motherboard, while 11.3% of B650 users have the full-size ATX form factor installed in their systems. Users with B650 ITX motherboards are extremely rare, with only 0.1% recorded in this report.

The report also reveals several other metrics, including the total number of SSDs installed in a B650 system, of which the majority is two. There’s also a price trend graph that shows a gradual price drop over time, which contributed to the chipset’s popularity and the consumer’s willingness to switch from AM4 motherboards, such as B550. In fact, B650 is so popular that it remains the most popular chipset, occupying a 30.7% share of the entire motherboard market (while Intel’s most popular B760 sits at 17.9%).

It’s easy to see why this chipset is so popular among South Korean users (and most likely, globally) – AMD’s processors have been relatively efficient compared to Intel’s offerings, which do not require beefy VRMs that can only be found in the top-tier models often associated with high-end chipsets. Even something like a Ryzen 9 7950X can run perfectly fine on a B650 board as long as you can live with the lack of bells and whistles, and the models offered in this category are generally good enough to serve the vast majority of users regardless of their performance needs.