ThoseDeafMutes
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I can't say I've been completely problem free on either flavour and I understand your sentiment. However, I've noticed quite a few people saying things like "AMD better improve so I can get a cheaper Nvidia card". If that is the attitude taken, how will AMD improve? They're in a completely different financial situation and it costs money to improve.
Frankly I think Nvidia users deserve the higher prices, they are after all paying for greater quality. That extra quality is obviously worth a lot, with plenty of people willing to pay that premium, since Nvidia is doing fine.
They have generally held the Performance crown and have stuff like PhysX exclusive features in some games. It feels like there are a lot more Nvidia sponsored games than AMD ones (although I've never actually counted), and there's been a long term reputation of AMD drivers being worse / there being more games that have issues on AMD cards. Whether or not that's true or false, it probably moves people towards Nvid on average.
AMD has usually had the best price/perf card on the market, if it also has the best performance in an absolute sense that should help their situation. But it's at best a temporary advantage as Nvid's tech is no slouch, it's not like every new series of cards from AMD will have an HBM-style advantage.