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AMD still don't offer a compelling product for the high-end, which Nvidia is taking full advantage of. AMD cards are the most economical on the market and have
by hellotomyrars 6y ago
AMD still don't offer a compelling product for the high-end, which Nvidia is taking full advantage of. AMD cards are the most economical on the market and have their own advantages but they're niche (Linux support is much better for example).
AMD got on top of Intel by creating hardware that delivers. Just a few years ago AMD CPUs were economical, but the performance was abysmal, especially in single-threaded applications by comparison. They didn't make a product for the high-end.
I am eagerly awaiting what the next series of AMD cards are going to be able to do. They're talking a big game for sure. But Nvidia has a big software advantage as well as a hardware advantage on AMD and that's likely to be a sticking point for me personally on my next purchase. Nvidia spends a lot of resources on working closely with developers and providing them support they need to take better advantage of the hardware with nvidia-specific features. AMD doesn't seem to do the same, and has had much higher profile issues with their drivers in my experience.
All that said, I hope AMD can provide a product to truly compete at the high-end with Nvidia, to hopefully drive prices down as GPU prices have gone up dramatically on the high end.