«You'd be surprised. On a global scale, the split between AM4 and AM5 is not far off from 50/50.» So, says David McAfee, AMD head of Client Channel Business, of AMD's current CPU sales (via TechPowerUp).
In other words, half of the CPUs AMD is selling today are still made for the old AM4 socket. And, of course, the last family of chips made for the AM4 socket was the Ryzen 5000.
The Ryzen 7000 and latest Ryzen 9000 CPU families both go into the current AM5 socket. McAfee does concede that split isn't universal to all markets. «Different markets have different preferences.
North America and Western Europe skew toward higher-end AM5 builds,» he says. But still, it's near 50/50 overall. For context, the AM4 socket first appeared back in 2016 while the newest family of Ryzen CPUs for AM4, the Zen 3-based Ryzen 5000 chips, was first released in late 2020.
But here we are in 2025 and half of AMD's desktop CPU sales are still AM4-based. Actually, that shouldn't be a huge surprise.