AMD GPUs have consistenly had higher compute performance than Nvidia. The Fury X, for example, consistently outperforms the Titan X for half the price.[1] That'

AMD GPUs have consistenly had higher compute performance than Nvidia. The Fury X, for example, consistently outperforms the Titan X for half the price.[1] That's why AMD has completely dominated the bitcoin / cryptohashing scene: money is involved, so people are willing to spend time optimizing for different hardware. Nvidia captured this market using typical vendor lock-in tactics: they didn't support OpenCL 1.2 until many years after it was released, and they still don't support OpenCL 2.0+. [1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/9390/the-amd-radeon-r9-fury-x-review/24 http://www.anandtech.com/show/9390/the-amd-radeon-r9-fury-x-...