>So I consider that lack of software to be not very much of a negative in that specific scenario. Stop moving the goal post. You asked for an example of AMD no

>So I consider that lack of software to be not very much of a negative in that specific scenario. Stop moving the goal post. You asked for an example of AMD not doing software, their pricing is irrelevant. Incidentally, a 7800X3D is faster than the higher tier 7950X3D for general gaming precisely because of the lack of assistive tooling. >No, the Nvidia control panel isn’t a good feature to me. I want a nice application like GeForce experience where every setting is in one place, not two different apps where one of them looks like a Windows 98 program. Yeah, every single setting is in that "Windows 98 program". GeForce Experience has never been worth the CPU cycles it eats, it's just telemetry bloatware. >I want easy driver updates because I play games. It’s critical I have the latest driver for the newest games. If that's the case, Windows Update has you covered. >Your experience from 15 years ago buying a DOA card isn’t relevant. It is because that is a reflection of the experience I've always had with AMD: Unreliability. I don't consider any of their options anymore, always going Intel and Nvidia, because my time is worth more than that. >As far as hardware quality, Nvidia’s best quality and customer service AIB partner EVGA quit the market because of Nvidia’s abusive business relationship. Unfortunate as that was, it wasn't the end of the world. ASUS and MSI make decent products. >If your laptop is Sandy Bridge era it is beyond both AMD and Nvidia’s support window by now, that’s a 12 year old platform. That doesn't matter because I am talking about the last drivers that support the GPU in question, still provided by AMD. Those drivers only manage to drive the GPU in a very limited capacity, by which I mean it can detect the GPU but otherwise not do much better than Windows's built-in generic VGA drivers. Doing the same with an Nvidia or Intel GPU results in a fully functioning GPU, as it should. AMD can't do software, which is a damn shame given how capable their hardware could be.