I would buy an AMD Kingpin gpu if it dunks on a 5090.
IF
It's easy to point fingers at Nvidia because they have engaged in and continue to engage in anti-consumer practices. We know this for a fact because multiple times now it has bubbled to the surface publicly. They are currently under investigation for anti-trust but they've gotten in trouble for lying about card specs, lying to their investors, strong arming AIBs (whether that be the GPP or the current situation where only Nvidia is allowed ASUS, Gigabyte, and MSI's premium SKUs), cheating on benchmarks, implementing malicious game tech (tessellation far beyond what was visible in Crysis 2 merely to nuke AMD performance), ect. The list goes on. Heck they never did own up to the fact that the 3000 series cards, in particular the 3090, was feeding back noise into the 12v sense pin which caused some PSUs like the Seasonic prime to trip OCD. That was an Nvidia design fault, not Seasonic. Nvidia can do no wrong.
Really? REALLY? That garbage about Crysis 2 AGAIN? It's been
THIRTEEN YEARS since that game came out and you're still holding that grudge? A grudge that isn't even NVIDIA's fault, but rather Crytek's for incompetently porting a DX9 game into DX11 and tacking features on? RTX 3090 feeding power back to the power supply?
What? If Seasonic released a batch of bad PSUs that's on them! It has nothing to do with NVIDIA, nor does that imply that the RTX 3090 has a design fault.
Come ONNNN, this is so utterly frustrating that it borders on the malicious, I don't know what kind of substance is involved in this mindset but I want some of it!
A majority of EVGA's revenue was graphics cards They were the largest AIB for Nvidia after all. It's different for ASUS, MSI, and Gigabyte who were diversified.
EVGA was Nvidia's most ardent partner and Nvidia tossed them aside like trash just like they did BFG and XFX. Like Linus Torvalds said:
A company so terrible to work with that even your partners who signed on to exclusively make products for you decide it isn't worth it anymore.
But sure, despite all the evidence let's just pretend it's everyone else's fault. /s
What were they expecting, special treatment? Discounts because nice little EVGA needs larger margins to stabilize its own shortcomings? It's no wonder this trainwreck of a company crashed and burned. Other companies stepped up to the vacuum EVGA left on the market with the slickest designs to date. Turns out that they aren't special nor essential for any of the parts involved, consumers included.
Linus Torvalds' issue with Nvidia is simply an ideological one. Nvidia is not a big believer in free and open source software, and that is a valid stance. This would generate an entire argument on its own, FOSS x proprietary, but the fact remains that proprietary software is morally valid, otherwise Microsoft would never have gotten away with Windows and Apple would have long since crashed and burned
Typically AMD has lower prices and more VRAM, two very important things for most folks. They do have a good driver interface and a few features Nvidia doesn't have like built in OC and better power management options. Obviously Nvidia has more exclusive features of course but AMD's 10% marketshare isn't proportionate to how competitive their products are. AMD had 19.4% marketshare with Bulldozer CPUs so why is a vastly more competitive RDNA architecture only netting a mere 10% after 3 generations? Software lock-in and mindshare.
Unfortunately for AMD, the market can see through the fact that a pretty control panel doesn't distract from the fact that the underlying driver has an untold amount of issues that vary from tolerable to severe. Turns out people aren't interested in giving up a great experience to go play troubleshooter every time you start playing a new game, turns out that they aren't interested in hunting Windows updates that may conflict with the driver or installing a different version for each game they play, turns out people do place value in an ecosystem, turns out gamers don't actually give one fig about open source, they may even claim that they do but when push comes to shove, they will support proprietary software... which brings the conversation full circle:
Radeons
don't offer the top tier performance nor a consistent experience, and thus are unworthy of being positioned as premium segment products.
I won't even continue addressing the rest, if you genuinely believe things like the Crysis 2 hoax or the "GameWorks" thing almost 15 years on, you're hopeless and those aren't even the most recent grudges you're going to be holding. Literally the frustrated ATI boomer thing I routinely bring up.