people say that but much of the time AMD has excluded themselves from consideration for other reasons. 5000 series, 7000/200 series, and 480/Vega series all sa

people say that but much of the time AMD has excluded themselves from consideration for other reasons. 5000 series, 7000/200 series, and 480/Vega series all saw major cryptomining booms that raised prices far beyond those of the equivalent NVIDIA cards, so for much of the time they were simply not priced competitively. Like, for almost a year you would have to pay $1000+ for a Vega that barely matched a 1080 while you could get a 1080 Ti for $800 or so. Also, there's been constant driver problems literally since the ATI days, just recently drivers basically crippled Navi for the entire duration of the product generation, drivers crippled Vega previously, Fiji was a driver mess, Hawaii and Tahiti were not problem free either (the famous "company A vs B vs C" article [0] notes that "company B's drivers are bad and are on a downtrend" and that was during the heyday of GCN, in 2014, those were the "stable drivers" that everyone rhapsodizes about in comparison to the mess that is Navi/Vega). Terascale was a fucking mess too. AMD products often have weaker feature sets. It took them years to catch up with G-Sync (offering low-quality products with poor quality control for years until NVIDIA cleaned things up with GSync Compatible certification). NVENC is far better than AMD's equivalent (Navi's H264 encoder is still broken entirely as far as I know, it provides less than realtime encoding speed and extremely poor quality), so if you want to stream with AMD you have to use your CPU and crush your framerate, or purchase a much more expensive CPU. AMD has no answer for DLSS, and is just implementing their first generation RTX support with the next generation. This is what I refer to as the "NVIDIA mind control field" theory. That consumers are just so wowed by the NVIDIA brand that they can't help themselves. The reality is AMD simply has not been that compelling an offering for that much of the time. There has been a lot of poor execution over the years from the Radeon team and prices have often not been as good as people remember them to be. And a few good products don't change that either. Like, it took something like 8 years of AMD slacking off (Raja mentioned in a presentation that around 2012 thatAMD management thought "discrete GPUs were going away" [1] and pulled the plug on R&D - certainly a very attractive idea given their budgetary problems at the time) for NVIDIA to reach their current level of dominance. AMD has never led the market for 8 years at a time. Maybe a year tops, usually NVIDIA has responded pretty quickly with price cuts and new products. NVIDIA has never let off the pedal the way AMD did (and yes money was the reason but that doesn't matter to consumers, they're buying products not giving to charity). [0] http://richg42.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-truth-on-opengl-driver-quality.html http://richg42.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-truth-on-opengl-driv... [1] https://youtu.be/590h3XIUfHg?t=1956 https://youtu.be/590h3XIUfHg?t=1956