[vrazj]

Brand value, I guess? All AMD hardware (CPUs and GPUs) I've bought in the past was crap, I'm never buying anything from them again, no matter what they do. It's always the same: on paper they are better and cheaper, but once I have them at home they are worse and, in case of the GPUs, they have pathetic drivers. I've always felt ripped off after buying AMD, it's never worth it just to save some pennies.

This has been my experience, I wonder if others have felt the same.

[kllrnohj]

Whenever AMD's CPUs have been price/performance competitive they've always been a fantastic choice. Especially now, when with Ryzen/Threadripper/Epyc you not only got more cores for the less money, you also got better security.

AMD's GPU drivers have been perfectly fine since the 9700 Pro. That's a 16 year old myth at this point, let it go.

[TomVDB]

https://twitter.com/_humus_/status/1018846492273119233?lang=...

ATI started rewriting their OpenGL driver in 2004-2007. Long after 9700 Pro’s prime.

As told by the author, it was a long lasting disaster.

[throwaway2048]

Its really not a myth, AMD drivers on windows have completely terrible openGL performance for instance.

[dkersten]

I've had both Intel and AMD cpu's and both AMD and Nvidia GPU's (I guess you could add Intel too for their integrated gpu's) and my AMD experience has been generally quite pleasant and problem-free.