That’s… very debatable. Don’t get me wrong, they’re definitely competitive at all levels but AMD absolutely is too & very arguably is better in some cases.
When you say AMD is extremely popular still, yet Nvidia has what like 82-84% market share.. what are we actually talking about here in the context of "market talks"?
Not how that works, friend. Neither data nor debate. You can't hoist talk to another sphere and continue, but even if we do there's a way back. Let's dove.in, shall we? Data is accurate, reported by numerous providers. If you don't trust any of data providers you can always compare revenue size of two companies where AMD accounts for CPUs and those deaps with console manufacturers as well and still doesn't come close, in fact percentage relative still holds. Consoles are B2B deals, people don't buy consoles because AMD. Same for mobile or apple (to a degree, because apple sells apple), as well as integrated Intel GPUs. Where consumers and businesses have a direct pick and choose - they did, and it's Nvidia for the better part, 80%+ part.
Yes, and that's a great ArtX doing and legacy tracing roots to SGI and Nintendo64 cooperation which ATI bought (into). However, it's not at all relevant since consumers aren't buying those for AMD GPUs, they are specialized (to consoles), and they're buying it for the brand of consoles themselves not because they have AMD GPU in it. Same parallel could then be drawn for intel's integrated GPUs. We're talking discrete GPU cards where market directly picks and chooses and it chose Nvidia that it's not even a contest anymore it seems. Even HPC area is done for almost.
Right, at the moment and that game changes all the time. However, we're talking share here where 5 out of top 10 are Nvidia (which also changes, yes - and not in favor of AMD but those "other" systems which are mostly under sanctions and can't buy Nvidia at scale). Top five accelerators / co-processors in TOP500 are Nvida per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOP500 . If you ask Nvidia they'll tell you 64-68% of TOP500 are Nvidia, but they count interconnect as well, not just GPU. Truth is somewhere down, probably within 1/3-1/2 area. It's really not hard to see AMD is putting up a fight, but against a giant. Nvidia outclassed AMD's sales in b2b as well as towards consumers by a big margin which is reflected both in revenue and ultimately market cap. Reason why that's so, since both are fabless, lies primarily within R&D Nvidia did execute on rather well - but that's just like my opinion, man. Everything else are facts.
That's not how it works. But I'll bite since you seem to follow a religion here - you can follow market talks from other end, revenue. It tells the same story, eerily so in fact.
That’s… very debatable. Don’t get me wrong, they’re definitely competitive at all levels but AMD absolutely is too & very arguably is better in some cases.