| Soundwave said: No surprise Nvidia has better architecture, they are a way, way bigger company than AMD and as such likely draw in the best talent and engineers with more money to offer. |
To give proper credit to Nvidia, when they made the decisions that have ballooned their size and relevancy (2013-2018) they were much closer to AMD (60% vs. 40% discrete GPU market-share.) They just outcompeted AMD by making smart business decisions when considering the fact that Moore's Law was slowing and that the GPU business could expand beyond gaming.
I remember taking a CS course in 2015 where I was doing a project for a scientific computing problem (N-Body problem with hundreds of thousands of bodies.) I had an R9 280 at the time, and was disappointed to find out I couldn't use CUDA with an AMD GPU. I used OpenCL for the project, but CUDA would've been a lot better. My next GPU was a GTX 1060, largely because of that experience.
