[KennyBlanken]

AMD's 7xxx series cards were almost universally worse than their 6xxx equivalents. AMD cut memory bus width and reduced compute units, all in a quest to reduce power consumption because they're so power-hungry. They're still not as good as NVIDIA cards for power consumption.

The drivers are unreliable, Adrenalin is buggy, slow, and bloated; AMD's cards have poor raytracing, and AMD's compute is a dumpster fire, especially on Windows; ROCm is a joke.

None of the LLM or Stability Matrix stuff works on AMD GPUs under Windwos without substantial tweaking and even then it's unreliable garbage, whereas the NVIDIA stuff Just Works.

If you don't care about any of that and just want "better than integrated graphics", especially if you're on Linux where you don't need to worry about the shitshow that is AMD Windows drivers - then sure, go for AMD - especially the cards that have been put on sale (don't pay MSRP for any AMD GPU, ever. They almost always rapidly discount.)

AMD simply does not have the care to compete with NVIDIA for the desktop market. They have barely a few percent of the desktop GPU market; they're interested in stuff like gaming consoles.

Intel are the only ones who will push AMD - and it will push them to either compete or let their product line stagnate and milk as much profit out of the AMD fanboys as they can.