Yet all the AMD fans are telling me they're for the gamer? They create technology "for the gamer", Yet it's Nvidia spending the money on actually creating technology for gamers and AMD eventually catches up after copying whatever Nvidia created?
I get Nvidia have a way more money, but the AMD fans here keep telling me "AMD make true gaming technologies". Am I blind or maybe I've missed a few articles but, when was the last time AMD was creating "true gaming technologies"?
IMO, when considering AMD, one should consider that they were led for years by a dolt (Rory Reed) that had no clue about technology and how to make it better. They had many years of trailing Intel for CPUs and NVidia for GPUs. Both, unfortunately, affected their income which must have adversely affected their R&D budget.
Then along comes Lisa Su. Unfortunately, the AMD she was given was a pile of
and she had to deal with it. Yet, deal with it she did. I don't think that it is necessarily wise to think that they are still the same company that they were under Rory Reed.
Wisely, IMO, under Lisa Su's leadership, AMD targeted the server market with the Zen architecture. Gamers did not like it that their games did not perform much, if any, better than running on Intel. While this was happening, performance of AMD CPUs in the server realm equaled and now exceeds Intel's server offerings and AMD also offered things like more PCI-e lanes in the server space for the base cost of their CPUs where to get those extras from Intel, anyone wanting an Intel server CPU had to pay extra for a different version of their server CPUs and more PCI-e lanes. But in games, it is arguable that AMD has indeed caught up to Intel.
And now, AMD is taking a significant portion of the highly profitable server CPU market away from Intel - which leads to more profits, and by extension, more money that AMD can put into R&D and other areas like GPU development.
I think AMD is still playing its hand in GPU development. Even though their latest generation of GPUs still lags NVidia in many areas, they have, nonetheless, gained ground on Nvidia.
The TLDR; for my post? Don't count AMD out just yet. They were a sleeping giant languishing in the
of dismal leadership and finally got a real leader that understands technology perhaps better than any other leader they ever had. It is making a difference, and I think we have only yet seen a small fraction of what AMD can and will do.