GeForce FX was hot and power hungry, but it generally had ok framerate in things that weren't DX9. It sold well anyway. Fermi was hot and power hungry. Still had somewhat decent framerate as well. Still sold. But when AMD pulls the same thing, OH MAH GOD, AMD IS GARBAGE OMG OMG OMG. Like, c'mon, are people all 5 years old?
I'm quoting this again because it's pertinent to the current ping pong discourse going back and forth.
People are reacting to your invalid point, quoted above. People DID call Nvidia out for the hot chip. People actually did switch to Radeon as Cdawall's sales graphs show.
If you simply say you understand this, it's all good. You're currently being gang banged because you've not accepted what you wrote (in quotes) is wrong. The history doesn't support you, nor does the sales figures.
Also, of real merit, after Fermi, Nvidia made efforts to streamline and make the design more efficient. We've seen it as they've reduced the compute component over time. This flipped the tables on former ATI who had made some nice efficient designs, especially by offering the 5870/5850 cards at the time.
Nvidia were laughed at and ATI got better sales. Nvidia managed though to get a full core 580 chip to succeed the 480 and this caught folk off guard (notably Charlie at Semi Accurate who said 'trust me, Nvidia cannot make a full core Fermi chip, it's not possible).
Since then, dropping compute has worked for gaming in the most part. Except now, GP100 and GV100 are not the same chip for gaming cards. Nvidia, unlike AMD is bifurcating their stack for HPC and general consumer.
Anyway. Most folk know your not a fan boy but failing to address your own erroneous statements doesnt help.