It’s not up to the consumer which GPU is better; it’s up to the producer. A consumer might want better competition but if the competing producers aren’t actuall

It’s not up to the consumer which GPU is better; it’s up to the producer. A consumer might want better competition but if the competing producers aren’t actually delivering, there’s nothing the consumer can do about it. Maybe you’re describing some theory where you buy the inferior competing product hoping that the company reinvests those revenues into developing a better product, but (a) there’s no guarantee of that ever working out and (b) this particular example doesn’t even work for that since both AMD and Intel have CPU revenue they could invest in competing with Nvidia. I mean, if AMD GPU’s were worse across the board but people bought them anyway because they were that annoyed at Nvidia, what would that actually demonstrate? It would demonstrate that AMD didn’t actually need to step up their GPU game after all. They could carry on with an inferior product and face no repercussions. The thing is, real world customers, given the choice, don’t usually buy inferior products in an effort to subsidize struggling producers. And if you force them to do so, you basically end up with the Jones Act.