>2. Highly integrated software. NVidia's biggest advantage is that AMD is unwilling to pay for top notch software engineers (and unwilling to pay the correspon

>2. Highly integrated software. NVidia's biggest advantage is that AMD is unwilling to pay for top notch software engineers (and unwilling to pay the corresponding increase in hardware engineer salaries this would entail). If you check online you'll see NVidia pays both hardware and software engineers significantly more than AMD does. This is a cultural/management problem, which AMD's unlikely to overcome in the near-term future. Apple so far seems like the only other hardware company that doesn't underpay its engineers, but Apple's unlikely to release a discrete/stand-alone GPU any time soon.