ITscope Market Barometer Q4/2022

Karlsruhe, 19/01/2023 – IT enthu­si­asts have every reason to be hap­py, becau­se IT manu­fac­tu­r­ers are brin­ging a breath of fresh air to the mar­ket with new chip gene­ra­ti­ons: Intel is pre­sen­ting the pro­ces­sors from the 13^thCore gene­ra­ti­on under the code­na­me “Raptor Lake” and Nvidia is real­ly hea­ting up the mar­ket with the high-performance gra­phics card GeForce RTX 4090. In the mar­ket baro­me­ter for the fourth quar­ter of 2022, the­re are the­r­e­fo­re a par­ti­cu­lar­ly lar­ge num­ber of exci­ting new pro­ducts that out­strip the long-established products.

As one of the­se new­co­mers, for exam­p­le, the MSI 24GB D6X RTX 4090 Gaming X Triowent straight into second place in the gra­phics card cate­go­ry. The new Nvidia GPU based on the new Ada-Lovelace archi­tec­tu­re is the talk of the town. Not just becau­se of its strong per­for­mance and pri­ce: some users repor­ted mel­ted cables and con­nec­tors. Nvidia, howe­ver, attri­bu­ted the pro­blems to a faul­ty instal­la­ti­on of the adap­ter. The inci­dents made waves and the 12VHPWR con­nec­tor ear­ned cri­ti­cism for lack of usa­bi­li­ty and insta­bi­li­ty. Manufacturer Be Quiet! sta­ted that no pro­blems had occur­red with their cables. The Be Quiet! CPH-661012VHPWR cable prompt­ly ente­red the ITscope highflyers.

There is also a huge leap in per­for­mance for Intel’s new CPUs com­pared to the pre­vious gene­ra­ti­on. Intel released the first pro­ces­sors for the desk­top sec­tor in 2022, but the 13^thgene­ra­ti­on is to be expan­ded to up to seven models. On the ITscope plat­form, the Intel Core i9 13900K, which has 24 cores and an split archi­tec­tu­re, was par­ti­cu­lar­ly popular.

The lay­out of the mobi­le pho­ne top list remains as in pre­vious ran­kings: Apple once again domi­na­tes this cate­go­ry with its models. The new iPhone 14 series, abo­ve all the iPhone 14 Pro, is popu­lar as expec­ted. That’s despi­te – or pre­cis­e­ly becau­se – the­re were deli­very pro­blems befo­re Christmas. Especially in the higher-priced seg­ment, Apple is incre­asing­ly asser­ting its­elf and hard­ly lea­ves a chan­ce to the high-end devices from Samsung and Co.

The HP Essential USB‑C docking sta­ti­onhas made it to second place among the high­fly­ers. Although it has only been lis­ted sin­ce August, it is alre­a­dy the fourth most clicked-on note­book docking sta­ti­on in the fourth quar­ter. In con­trast to the high­fly­er cham­pi­on of the pre­vious quar­ter – the HP Thunderbolt Dock G4– this docking sta­ti­on with USB‑C is che­a­per, but also offers fewer tech­ni­cal advan­ta­ges. USB‑C and Thunderbolt use the same con­nec­tor shape, but are not one hundred per­cent com­pa­ti­ble with each other. In terms of trans­fer speed, char­ging speed and con­nec­tion of addi­tio­nal devices, the Thunderbolt con­nec­tion has the edge. For many appli­ca­ti­ons, howe­ver, a dock with USB‑C is suf­fi­ci­ent and the­r­e­fo­re more eco­no­mic­al. The most clicked-on docking sta­ti­ons in Q4 in gene­ral are the Lenovo ThinkPad Universal USB‑C Dockand the Lenovo ThinkPad Hybrid USB‑C with USB‑A Dock.

Third place also goes to Apple with their 2^ndgene­ra­ti­on of AirPods Pro. The pre­vious ver­si­on of the­se ear­buds was alre­a­dy a real high­fly­er last year. The new Bluetooth ear­pho­nes come with small inno­va­tions and adjus­t­ments, but con­vin­ce abo­ve all with their effec­ti­ve noi­se can­cel­ling and excel­lent sound – which has now been fur­ther enhan­ced with the new H2 chip. Changes have been made to the con­trols, which are now touch-sensitive, and to the char­ging case, which can now be found via Apple’s ‘Find My’ app. Although the head­pho­nes can be used with all Bluetooth devices, many fea­tures are reser­ved for Apple users.

The new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 chip­set has cau­sed quite a stir among gra­phics cards. So it’s no won­der that the MSI GeForce RTX 4090 GAMING X TRIOmade it to 4^thplace in our high­fly­ers with 1,513 clicks. Read what the new­co­mer can do and what else has hap­pen­ed in the gra­phics cards cate­go­ry.

The Microsoft Surface ran­ge is cele­bra­ting its tenth anni­ver­sa­ry and the new Microsoft Surface Pro 9 for Businesshas ente­red our high­fly­ers in 5^thplace – just in time for the fes­ti­vi­ties. The 2‑in‑1 tablet has a powerful 12^thgene­ra­ti­on Intel pro­ces­sor, 16GByte RAM and a 256GByte NVMe SSD. The com­pa­ti­bi­li­ty with the Microsoft envi­ron­ment is a gre­at advan­ta­ge, espe­ci­al­ly in the busi­ness envi­ron­ment. At 1.5 kilo­grams, the tablet is ligh­ter than most note­books; the tablet modu­le alo­ne weighs only 837 grams. This makes the Surface an ide­al com­pa­n­ion for mobi­le work or home office, espe­ci­al­ly for com­pa­nies that work with Windows, OneDrive or Office pro­ducts from Microsoft.

A rare sight in the Highflyers: a prin­ter made it into the Top 10 with 6^thplace! The Kyocera ECOSYS M5526cdna, released in autumn, is a powerful mul­ti­func­tion­al sys­tem and com­bi­nes colour laser prin­ting, a copi­er and a scan­ner. Kyocera adver­ti­ses its Ecosys models as par­ti­cu­lar­ly dura­ble and resource-saving.

Apple not only domi­na­tes the weara­bles cate­go­ry with its smart­wat­ches, the new Apple Watch Series8 also made it to 7^thplace among the new­co­mers. As in the pre­vious year, Apple laun­ched the new model just in time for the Christmas quar­ter. As usu­al, the Apple Watch has a strong per­for­mance. Compared to the Watch Series 7, sen­sors for car acci­dent detec­tion and body tem­pe­ra­tu­re mea­su­re­ment were added, and the new model also pro­mi­ses an extra two hours of bat­tery life.

The first pro­ces­sors of the 13^thCore gene­ra­ti­on from Intel real­ly shook up the CPU mar­ket in the fourth quar­ter. So it is no won­der that the Intel Core i9 i9-13900Kappears in the high­fly­ers. Read more about the new Intel CPUs in the cate­go­ry sec­tion fur­ther down.

It’s rather unu­su­al for a new acces­so­ry cable to land 328 clicks, but the Be Quiet! CPH-6610made it any­way. The 12V HPWR cable fits the new Nvidia RTX 4090 gra­phics cards and owes its high­fly­er suc­cess to the ing­lo­rious head­lines about cable fires. With the Be Quiet! CPH-6610, each pin is direct­ly con­nec­ted to a cable.

Here your can see our 30 most acti­ve new­co­mers with Hot-Seller Potential – our highflyers:

When it comes to TFT moni­tors, no one can get past the Dell P2422H. With 7,483 clicks, the moni­tor is cle­ar­ly ahead of the second-placed Lenovo ThinkVision T24i-2L, which still regis­ters 2,316 clicks. This means that Dell has been the undis­pu­ted lea­der for two years now, first with the 18″ model, then with the suc­ces­sor model from 2021. Dell’s 27″ vari­ant, the P2722H, makes it into third place. There are no other sur­pri­ses in the TFT cate­go­ry eit­her – the mar­ket and tech­no­lo­gy are sta­ble. Besides Dell and Lenovo, Samsung and HP are also repre­sen­ted in the Top 10 with their models.

The most clicked-on higher-priced model is the Samsung Flip WM55R, which has alre­a­dy been lis­ted on ITscope sin­ce 2019. It is not a clas­sic office screen, but a digi­tal flip­chart with a 55-inch touch­screen dis­play. This makes it pri­ma­ri­ly sui­ta­ble for inter­ac­ti­ve col­la­bo­ra­ti­on, for exam­p­le in mee­ting rooms and con­fe­rence halls.

Between the most­ly high-priced Apple models, some Samsung smart­phones are hol­ding their own in the top ranks. This includes the Samsung A53 5G, which was released in 2022, or the Samsung Xcover 5 Enterprisefrom 2021. The Samsung Galaxy A13(from 43^rdto 16^thplace) and the Samsung Galaxy A33(from 31^stto 18^thplace) have also fought their way up. It is noti­ceable that only Samsung mobi­le pho­nes in the low and medi­um pri­ce seg­ment can boast reasonable click num­bers. Samsung flag­ships such as the Galaxy S22 Ultraor the Galaxy Z Flip4did not even make it into the top 50, giving the impres­si­on that Samsung is being pushed out of the high-end smart­phone mar­ket by Apple.

The Samsung Galaxy A13is a remar­kab­le low-budget model with a retail pri­ce of under €150. It impres­ses with a lar­ge, sharp dis­play and good bat­tery life, but dis­ap­points with the pro­ces­sor and no sup­port for 5G. The mid-range Samsung Galaxy A33smart­phone plays in a dif­fe­rent leagueand has an OLED dis­play, a water­pro­of housing and a very good camera.

Google’s Pixel 6ahas also moved up and made the leap from 52^ndto 19^thplace, which is cer­tain­ly also due to the ste­adi­ly fal­ling pri­ce of the smart­phone. This mid-range pho­ne is a mix­tu­re of the Pixel 5 and Pixel 6, and is curr­ent­ly the smal­lest Pixel phone.

And the 10^th-gene­ra­ti­on Apple iPad is also get­ting rea­dy to take over from the 9^thgene­ra­ti­on. Having been lis­ted on ITscope sin­ce October, the Apple 10.9‑inch iPad Wi-Fi (10^thgen.)nar­row­ly mis­ses ente­ring the Top 10 at 11^thplace. The entry-level tablet is €150–200 more expen­si­ve than the pre­vious ver­si­on, which is also still lis­ted. The most noti­ceable chan­ge is the omit­ted home but­ton and the lar­ger dis­play, which has a hig­her reso­lu­ti­on with Liquid Retina (2360 × 1640 ins­tead of 2160 × 1620). In addi­ti­on, the iPad 10 has an A14 chip, which brings a signi­fi­cant increase in per­for­mance and ener­gy effi­ci­en­cy.

The new Apple 12.9‑inch iPad Prohas also recei­ved a new chip­set and a pri­ce increase. The M2 pro­ces­sor gives the tablet a brisk working speed – Computerbild even wri­tes: “It does­n’t get any fas­ter than this. The iPad Pro 2022 is curr­ent­ly the most powerful tablet.”

In addi­ti­on to the ThinkPads, a ThinkBook from Lenovo also made it into the Top 5, the Lenovo ThinkBook 16p G2 ACH 20YM. The Lenovo ran­ge has a touch dis­play and was initi­al­ly desi­gned for pri­va­te users. However, thanks to the RTX 3060 gra­phics card and the Ryzen pro­ces­sor, the ThinkBook is also sui­ta­ble as a powerful busi­ness notebook.

The chan­ging of the guard also came for the HP Book 480 note­book: the new HP ProBook 450 G9 note­bookhas clim­bed from 121^stplace into 2^nd. The note­book, which has been lis­ted on ITscope sin­ce March, works quiet­ly, effi­ci­ent­ly and with a long bat­tery lifewith Intel’s Core i7-1255U.

Alongside Lenovo and HP, a Dell PC sys­tem is also a guest in the Top 5 in the fourth quar­ter: the Dell OptiPlex 3090recei­ved 1,356 clicks. The thin cli­entworks with a 12^thgene­ra­ti­on Intel Core i5 pro­ces­sor, 8 GB RAM and 256 GB of SSD sto­rage. Dell prai­ses its OptiPlex series as par­ti­cu­lar­ly secu­re, with secu­ri­ty fea­tures such as TPM 2.0, a stan­dard device for a secu­ri­ty lock, a device for a pad­lock and a cir­cuit brea­k­er and an SED hard dri­ve. The Dell OptiPlex 3000with Core i3 pro­ces­sor has also impro­ved impres­si­ve­ly, from 218^thto 13^thplace.

A new­co­mer with the new Nvidia chip­set took second place in the gra­phics card cate­go­ry: the MSI 24GB D6X RTX 4090 Gaming X Trio. It impres­ses with 16,348 CUDA cores, 24 GB memo­ry and a boost clock of 2,520 MHz. The gra­phics card has acti­ve coo­ling with three fans and mana­ges a maxi­mum reso­lu­ti­on of 7680 x 4320 pixels.

In fact, the gra­phics cards with the repla­ced flag­ship chip­set GeForce RTX 3090 TI were still fre­quent­ly cli­cked on, the ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 3090 TIeven made it to 6^thplace. However, the stock here has been hea­ding towards zero sin­ce December, as has the MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GAMING X TRIO 24G. So anyo­ne hoping to find a bar­gain will unfort­u­na­te­ly be dis­ap­poin­ted: despi­te the intro­duc­tion of the new models, the pri­ce for the 3090 models has remain­ed rela­tively con­stant until recently.

The high­fly­er among the new Intel pro­ces­sors was the Intel Core i9 13900K, just ahead of the Intel Core i9 13900KF. The Intel flag­ship fea­tures 24 cores and high clock fre­quen­ci­es and achie­ves high mea­su­re­ment results in bench­marks. The 13^thgene­ra­ti­on cores are split into P and E cores in the split archi­tec­tu­re. This sepa­ra­tes com­pu­ta­tio­nal­ly inten­si­ve tasks from back­ground tasks. The CPU is cri­ti­cis­ed for its high power con­sump­ti­on and a rela­tively weak onboard gra­phics pro­ces­sor. It is com­pa­ti­ble with DDR4 and DDR5 as well as older boards. Various new i7 and i5 pro­ces­sors also mana­ged a respec­ta­ble ent­ry, for exam­p­le the Intel Core i7 13700Kand the Intel Core i5 13600K.

The pri­ce of the AMD Ryzen 9 7950Xdrop­ped signi­fi­cant­ly after the release of the new Intel CPUs, giving the new AMD pro­ces­sor a strong rise into 10^thplace of the ITscope cate­go­ry. AMD’s top CPU is direct com­pe­ti­ti­on to Intel’s flag­ship, the Intel Core i9 13900K, and with 16 cores, 32 threads and a high clock speed, it is a top-of-the-line device. According to Chip, no clear win­ner emer­ges from the head-to-head race with its Intel counterpart.

Resource-saving prin­ting is in vogue: the Epson EcoTank ET-M3180has also clim­bed from 137^thto 12^thplace. The mul­ti­func­tion inkjet prin­ter is loa­ded with high-yield ink bot­t­les, which pro­mi­ses low cos­ts for the prin­ted pages. Unlike laser prin­ters, inkjet tech­no­lo­gy does not requi­re heat during the prin­ting pro­cess, which has a posi­ti­ve effect on ener­gy consumption.

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