In 2011, I desperately wanted to buy an AMD card. More perf per dollar, don't feed the nvidia beast, etc etc. Between OpenCL for GPGPU and Blender OpenCL suppor

In 2011, I desperately wanted to buy an AMD card. More perf per dollar, don't feed the nvidia beast, etc etc. Between OpenCL for GPGPU and Blender OpenCL support, I was ready -- only to find that the Blender support didn't work unless you did a custom build and even then it performed so poorly that the CPU would beat it. I sold my AMD card and bought an NVidia one. In 2014, I desperately wanted to buy an AMD card. More perf per dollar, don't feed the nvidia beast, etc etc. AMD had devoted someone to getting the Blender kernels working a few years back, surely now was the time? No, Blender support was still trash. Ok, GPGPU was more important to my use-case anyway. I wasted 2 months trying to write my own compute projects on that AMD GPU. Loads of crashes, leaks (N runs until a black screen and lockup), weird performance issues, debuggers only worked intermittently, it was bad. One time I had spent the whole damn day chasing an OpenCL issue in circles -- only to have the exact, unmodified kernel run flawlessly when I tried it on my buddy's nvidia card. That was it. I sold my AMD card and bought an NVidia one, once more eating the ebay fees, the spread, and the green tax. 10 years later, I hope AMD's success in the CPU space means they now have money and can turn this around. Still, I won't be the guinea pig anymore. I'll buy an AMD card when I see it doing the things I want it to do and not a second earlier. Marketing puffery isn't enough this time. I need to see proof.