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Can I ask why they're still the de facto? I run AMD on CPU and GPU and don't consider purchasing otherwise when researching components (other than baseline for comparison and per cent cost)
Performance. AMD has explicitly stated that they arenβt even trying to compete at the top end.
NVidia got there early with their CUDA API.
That's been around for decade(s), which enabled all sorts of crazy GPU usages beyond just graphics.
Due to that, NVidia held the datacenter/professional scene exclusively for a long time.
As a result, their professional cards and related drivers have been industry standard.
I have no doubt that AMD is better, but so much (non-mainstream) software is built against NVidia drivers, CUDA etc., that will be slow to change until the cost of implementing similar for AMD outweighs "just sticking with NVidia".
The classic "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM"
If you need to use pytorch, ie predictive modelling using neural networks, you need to use NVIDIA.
And rocm stuff is catching up but, atleast a few years ago, massive pita.