Though PC Perspective is just a single data point in what was likely hundreds of websites offering links to resellers for Ryzen, the sheer volume was astounding. That single day of sales was well beyond the second highest sales day for PC Perspective’s affiliate code, including and Black Friday, other hardware launches, etc. It also represents a 100x increase over the average sales per day. One day does not guarantee success for any product, but I can assuredly say now that AMD has met many users’ expectations.

(It’s worth noting that full, independent reviews of Ryzen hardware won’t be available for another 10+ days.)

Of that $300,000 in sales, more than $150,000 was not of Ryzen processors or X370/B350 motherboards. This brings us to another important point: with the exception of Intel, every other hardware vendor should be welcoming the influx in new builds. Users were buying graphics cards, memory kits, power supplies, storage and SSDs, cases and more, all in preparation to build a new PC for gaming and productivity. AMD hopes to take advantage of that trend with its upcoming Vega graphics cards but NVIDIA and its GeForce GTX cards stand to make considerable movement as well. Other vendors like ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte, Corsair, OCZ, EVGA, and others, including accessories suppliers like Logitech, should all see some modicum of uptick in hardware sales in the coming weeks and months.

We still have a long road for Ryzen processors and the Zen architecture before anyone can claim that it is a big enough success to help redirect this ship known as AMD. However, it seems nearly impossible that the company will not immediately start taking back market share from Intel in the $250+ processor space. And for the rest of the industry that has been pushing for users to upgrade and open their wallets, the Ryzen launch appears to be giving it a jump start too.

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