[JohnBooty]

    AMD has been hobbled by the quality of their drivers 

I always hear this and I believe it, but I've never been able to find any insight about what exactly is holding them back.

Given the way nVidia is printing money, surely it absolutely cannot be a lack of motivation on AMD's part?

This is a very uninformed thought as I have no experience writing drivers, nor am I familiar with the various things supported by CUDA and ROCm. But how is AMD struggling with ROCm compute drivers, when their game drivers have been plenty stable as far as I have experienced? Surely the surface area of functionality needed for the graphics drivers is larger and therefore the compute drivers should be a relatively easier task? Or am I wrong and CUDA has a bunch of higher-level stuff baked into it and this is what AMD struggles to match?

     and because they sold less performant hardware.

Does anybody have and insight into specifically what part of compute performance AMD is struggling to match? Did AMD bet on the wrong architectural horse entirely? Are they unable to implement really basic compute primitives as efficiently as they want because nVidia holds key patents? Did nVidia lock down the entire pool of engineers who can implement this shit in a performant way?

I mean, aside from GPU compute stuff, it sure looks to me like AMD is executing well. It doesn't seem like they're a bunch of dunces over there. Quite the opposite?