All I can see is AMD losing out to mindshare and trying to make dirt cheap GPU's that are on par with Nvidia's "features", just means they still stand to lose out.
I just do not see them taking massive losses on sold hardware and pulling a gigachad Zeus move and striking Nvidia from the heavens with their omega level raw power and feature set, because they have neither of those, and in this current climate, why would you?, people clearly have no qualms paying top dollar (Some of you here had no issues going for 4090's for example) in Nvidia's market.
I can easily see Intel slowly gnawing away at AMD's value market, while Nvidia just continues unabated with their mindshare and band-aid tech (yes I know AMD has their own band-aid, but they aren't on Nvidia's level of extreme reliance on DLSS 3 and having to use fake frames).
We've reached a point where one company is extremely happy with their market share, so much so that they are now pandering to other markets and leaving their dominance to go stale in the corner. We've got another company that has no clue wtf it wants to do, but still wants to copy the leader's homework, and another company that's picking up the scraps of paper the former left behind, when they went to copy the leader's homework, that's basically our current market right now.
Just to point out, mindshare is quite easily a powerful tool. Take a look at Steam vs Epic vs GoG, and you'll see why Epic cannot be arsed at all to catch up to Steam's features, let alone GoG's 1 feature.
Steam has the biggest mindshare and pool of customers. Yes I care about Steam's features, because I know they are what they are (not like DLSS/FSR, that are literally slapping a band-aid to cover something worse), but I mostly use Steam because I know it's the most reliable, and the fact that it's been around for years and actually trying to do something.
Like Pem pointed out, AMD tried to do their best, it still wasn't enough. Epic tried putting in a shopping cart after all these years, did that help?, n, people are still just asking for free game handouts on Twitter instead.
Mindshare is stupidly powerful if executed and maintained correctly. Do not underestimate it compared to "well my Vacuum cleaner has this extra toggle feature!", because no one will care if the mindshare is stronger on the other side (Just like how Linux is catching up slowly, the majority of the planet still do not care, because Windows mindshare is stupidly huge and cannot be toppled).
Oh and for another random example that isn't tech related: I know someone in the art community who draws YCH (Your Character Here) slot pictures, and he charges thousands per slot taken, which sounds absolutely fucking insane to me, but hey, he's basically the "Apple" of that art community, and other people who draw more detailed and intricate pictures than him, only end up charging way, way less, because they quite frankly do not have the same level of mindshare that he has, let alone the commanding power to increase their prices to his level.
Mindshare is fucking big. I would never dream of trying to claim mindshare/feature parity being on the same level, because one can easily force the other to being ignored, no matter how good it may be.
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