PassMark's CPU Market Share page, dated 11 July 2026, tracks four vendors — Intel, AMD, Apple and Qualcomm — across the All-CPU, Desktop, Laptop and Server charts, each expressed as a stacked-percentage series running Q1 2004 through Q1 2026 [S1]. The dataset is rebuilt daily from PerformanceTest submissions and currently sits in the Q1 2026 column, which is the reference column for every cross-vendor comparison in this article.
The Q1 2026 reading matters because it is the first full quarter where PassMark's laptop chart has tracked four vendors side-by-side (Intel, AMD, Apple, Qualcomm), giving buyers a single source for the "x86 vs Arm in the notebook segment" question that has dominated mobile procurement since the M1 launch in 2020 [S1]. For server procurement the same source still presents historical Intel/AMD/others series, with Apple and Qualcomm remaining effectively off the chart in that segment.
All-CPU share and what the Q1 2026 column actually contains
PassMark's "CPU Market Share (All CPUs)" chart lists four vendors only — Intel, Apple, Qualcomm, AMD — and the Q1 2026 bar is the last point in a 23-year series, with the 100% line split across those four colours [S1]. The methodology is sample-based: every PerformanceTest result submitted through the PassMark endpoint is bucketed by brand string, so the Q1 2026 reading reflects the mix of *installed* silicon that actually ran the benchmark, not the mix of units shipped that quarter.
That distinction matters to anyone using the page for forecasting. A laptop refresh cycle, a server refresh cycle, or a gaming-PC GPU upgrade wave can move the brand percentages by several points in a single quarter even when silicon shipments are flat. PassMark explicitly states the chart is "made up of thousands of PerformanceTest benchmark results and is updated daily", which means the Q1 2026 number is a trailing indicator, not a forward-looking demand signal [S1].
Desktop share: Intel and AMD still the only two real options
The Desktop Market Share chart lists three vendors — Intel, Apple and AMD — with Qualcomm absent because PassMark's sample pool on the desktop side is overwhelmingly x86 [S1]. The Q1 2026 endpoint on this series is the data point that desktop OEM procurement teams should pin in their BOM reviews, because the desktop bar excludes the Apple-silicone-installed base that inflates the all-CPU figure.
For decision-makers sourcing x86 desktop boards, the Q1 2026 desktop series effectively reduces the vendor question to a binary Intel-vs-AMD choice; Apple's desktop presence on the chart is a Mac-Mini / iMac-Pro tail that rarely moves the percentage by more than a single point quarter-on-quarter [S1]. Readers building a cost-down BOM should weigh AMD's Ryzen 5 5600X (CPU Mark 21,830, CPU Mark/$ 146.52 on the 11 July 2026 value table) against Intel's Core i5-12400F (19,680 CPU Mark, 142.78 CPU Mark/$) [S2]. The two chips bracket each other on cost-per-unit-work, which is the data point most relevant to mid-range fleet rollouts.
Laptop share: the four-vendor chart is where Apple and Qualcomm show up
The Laptop Market Share chart is the only series on the page that shows all four vendors — Intel, AMD, Apple and Qualcomm — in the same stacked-percentage view, and the Q1 2026 endpoint is the most-cited column for enterprise IT [S1]. Apple first entered this chart in Q1 2021 with the M1 launch and has compounded share every quarter since; Qualcomm's presence reflects the Windows-on-ARM push that started with the 8cx generation and is now a recurring line item in the stacked view.
For mobile procurement teams, the practical read is: do not extrapolate the All-CPU share number to your fleet mix, because the laptop series is structurally different from the all-CPU and desktop series. A 50/50 Intel/AMD enterprise refresh plan should be sanity-checked against the laptop Q1 2026 column rather than the all-CPU one, since the latter is dragged by workstation and server submissions that are not part of the mobile fleet [S1]. A high-CPU-Mark laptop chip such as the Apple M4 10 Core (23,622 CPU Mark on the 11 July 2026 top-10 list) does not equate to a higher share number in this series; share is volume of submissions, not benchmark speed [S2].
Server share: Intel and AMD still the only real options for x86
The Server Market Share chart carries the Q1 2026 column and lists Intel, AMD and others across the 23-year window, with Apple Silicon and Qualcomm Snapdragon not yet registering on the server line [S1]. That absence is itself a data point: even with Apple Silicon server SKUs shipping in early evaluation units, the PassMark sample pool has not yet accumulated enough server-tagged PerformanceTest runs to make the vendor visible on the stacked chart.
For DC operators this means the x86 duopoly is the only data-supported reading for server procurement in Q1 2026. Anything else — Arm-based server share, RISC-V server share, accelerator-attached share — is not represented on PassMark's server series and should be sourced from a different dataset [S1]. The same caveat applies to embedded-class CPUs: the PassMark sample pool is dominated by desktop, laptop and server submissions, not PLC-class or microcontroller-class silicon, so its numbers are a poor fit for the industrial / automation market.
What the Q1 2026 endpoint says about a single 11 July 2026 day
The 11 July 2026 timestamp on every chart is the page build date, not the data-collection date for the Q1 2026 column; the Q1 2026 bar reflects benchmark submissions aggregated over January through March 2026 [S1]. That lag is important when the share number is being used for a near-term forecast — the column is roughly four months old by the time a reader sees the page.
Independent corroboration on the demand side comes from a 3 June 2026 Sina news report in which Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan stated that AI workloads are shifting from training to inference and agentic orchestration, that customers are asking for shipments "three times" their previous allocation, and that several CEOs are personally calling to push orders forward; the same report notes IDC has projected that x86 will still underpin roughly 80% of servers globally in 2030 [S5]. For PassMark readers, that demand signal lines up with the vendor mix visible in the Q1 2026 server column.
How to read the value table alongside the share chart
The 11 July 2026 "CPU Mark Relative to Top 10 Common Desktop CPUs" table and the parallel "CPU Value (CPU Mark / $Price)" table are not share numbers, but they are the engineering reference for the share data [S2]. The top three desktop chips on CPU Mark are the Intel Core i9-14900K (58,292), the Intel Core i9-13900K (58,133) and the AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D (34,287), with Apple's M4 10 Core sitting in fourth at 23,622 — and the very old Intel Core i7-3770K (Ivy Bridge, 3.50 GHz) anchoring the list at 6,517 [S2].
For sourcing teams, the cross-reference rule is: a vendor's share number says how much of the *installed* fleet is theirs, while the value table says how much CPU Mark a *new* dollar of their silicon buys you. A high share number does not imply a good buy; a low share number does not imply a bad buy. The two metrics are orthogonal and should be quoted separately in any sourcing report. For thermal and cooling planning tied to the share data, the data-center cooling automation reference walks through the control-loop implications of a CPU-mix dominated by high-TDP server silicon, and the immersion cooling 2026 automation stack covers the case where the Q1 2026 server mix shifts further toward high-wattage SKUs.
Readers using the PassMark Q1 2026 series for a 2026 CPU refresh should treat the page as a *sample-pool mix indicator*, not a shipment forecast, and pair every share number with a value-table entry before locking in a vendor allocation. The next data nodes worth watching are the Q2 2026 PassMark update (expected in the October 2026 page build) and the Q1 2026 server-platform IDC tracker release, both of which will reveal whether the Intel demand surge flagged on 3 June 2026 [S5] actually moved the PassMark vendor mix in the laptop and server columns.
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