I recently bought an AMD card for the first time, because I was annoyed with nVidia jerk behaviour.
And... I am not sure AMD has resources to design good GPUs either, the GPU I own, the 380X, is hot, power-hungry and buggy.
The RX480 launched recently to replace it, draws too much power from PCI-E slot and can damage people motherboards and raiser cards/cables.
So I am not entirely sure they have resources for their hardware division either, in fact the recent card launches from them all looked "rushed" in some way, and undertested. Some bugs are haunting their cards for 3 years now, and they don't even bother in putting in the "known issues" list anymore, because they have no idea how to fix it, despite having a 300-page+ thread on their support forums about it with people contributing lots of information.
And... I am not sure AMD has resources to design good GPUs either, the GPU I own, the 380X, is hot, power-hungry and buggy.
The RX480 launched recently to replace it, draws too much power from PCI-E slot and can damage people motherboards and raiser cards/cables.
So I am not entirely sure they have resources for their hardware division either, in fact the recent card launches from them all looked "rushed" in some way, and undertested. Some bugs are haunting their cards for 3 years now, and they don't even bother in putting in the "known issues" list anymore, because they have no idea how to fix it, despite having a 300-page+ thread on their support forums about it with people contributing lots of information.