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Pemalite said:

But when they were competitive price/performance wise, they took marketshare, they just never maintained that momentum.
For example... AMD's marketshare pretty much imploded when they kept rebadging the Radeon 7000 series to > 8000/R200/R300 series.

Some highlights of AMD's marketshare was the Radeon 9000 series, x850 series, x1950 series. - They dropped a ton of marketshare with the Radeon 2900 series, deservedly so. - Clawed some back with the Radeon 5000 series, deservedly so. - But then the 6000 series was just a refinement and didn't push boundaries...
Radeon 7000 series was tarnished due to frame pacing drivers and a focus on compute.

Radeon RX 6000 series is at an all time low because Ray Tracing, DLSS are overshadowing everything AMD has... Deservedly so.
But even when nVidia drops the ball with the 4000 series, AMD had the potential to release a very solid, much higher clocked 12GB-14GB-16GB Radeon 7600 and obliterate nVidia... But didn't.

So historically, when AMD releases a solid product lineup (I.E. Top to bottom stack), their marketshare increases, they just never kept that going for a second generation as nVidia's leaps (I.E. Maxwell) were significantly more impressive as of late.

Going by the chart data, they kept their momentum up for around 5-6 GPu gens (Nvidia gens not AMD), and then they just gave up, and it seems they gave up big time around the GTX 900 series, which is nearly a decade ago now, and that's a hella looooooong time in the tech space, let alone console/hardware years to consider.

Nvidia are technically fucking themselves atm by adding in extras to their branding (like RTX or RTX IO, or how this gen's number line is completely muddled up), but they still hold general consumer mindshare, just not hardcore dedicated (since most of us seem to be aware that it's 4090 or nothing this gen).

I just don't see AMD bothering at this point tbh, I mean look at the chart, they haven't cared about keeping up anything for nearly a decade now. That's just bad, dire even, to see AMD go on that long and not do shit about it. 

If Intel doesn't do something, we're really going to get fucked hard in the next 5+ years from now.