AMD hasn't had a flagship consumer product in like twenty years. The last high end (7900) competed with nvidia's mid range die. Nvidia has not had a flagship product either since the titan v , but they do still have high end products ( or did until the 5090 was discontinued)

I feel like Linux experience got split into two fragments of reality, as I was an ATI hardcore fan right up until they got bought by AMD and AMD decided 'fuck Linux' and the drivers were so bad for years, I finally switched to Intel/NVIDIA and I've not had a problem aside from an occasional build issue which took a few moments to fix.

I have no love for any of these companies now, but I just haven't had reason to make an architecture jump and its so much easier to just stick with what you know.

Fortunately I did my last upgrade cycle in 2023 so I just missed all this pricing and AI bullshit, so I should be able to wait for another 10 years before upgrading as I usually do. We'll see where things lie at that point.

Last time I had one of their cards, they had an ATI logo. Blender is why I'm still getting team green.

I was considering leaving green card team then the whole gpus being more expensive thing happened. I got Nvidia cards originally because they were better and stuck with them for a few generations.

Features and drivers optimization. AMD is a fine wine so any launch is usually a disaster. nVidia usually have a better launch support. However over time, their support does get worse and worse for older hardware (if you're on windows)