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CUDA is fairly entrenched, but there is extraordinary little "loyalty" or stickiness among gamers (nor should there be). Right now nvidia reigns supreme becaus
by endorphone 8y ago
CUDA is fairly entrenched, but there is extraordinary little "loyalty" or stickiness among gamers (nor should there be).
Right now nvidia reigns supreme because they have the best peak performance and value proposition. If AMD presents an option that upends this the ratios would change dramatically.
Just as we saw when ATI/AMD share halved over just two years when their designs were no longer competitive.
- jagger27 8y agoThe reason I argue this is in part because of what happened with Nvidia's GeForce 400 series (Fermi). That generation was an absolute dog (heat, power, driver issues, you name it) versus AMD's absolutely fantastic Radeon 5000 architecture. Despite the faults in Nvidia's cards, they still outsold AMD something like 10:1. Jim from AdordedTV goes into great depth on this strange era of GPU competition and dives deep into the press at the time and retrospective statistics. "Competitive" is more than just raw performance, it seems.
- lagadu 8y agoWhat you're describing is called market stability. The more stable a market is, the harder the momentum a brand has shifts towards competitors. It doesn't just take a single inferior generation of products to tank a brand/company and swing the whole market around, you need multiple sequential generations like that for that to happen.