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> Nvidia is now the tech equivalent of an oil producer during an energy shortage, seemingly able to charge what it wants and pocket outrageous profits

The other "oil producer", AMD, does not make a good competition. All cheap graphics cards are Nvidia. This is the same situation like with Windows: when everyone use it at home (pirated), or school (free), they will use it also at work ($$$).

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> All cheap graphics cards are Nvidia

If you watched any serious review last year you'll notice the AMD GPUs were consistently better value than their Nvidia counterparts. Though the 7000 generation was still very disappointing regardless.

If you want to use ROCm, then you better pay up for those datacenter cards. The consumer GPUs from Nvidia are cheap in comparison.

Consumer cards work too, except for the RDNA 1 generation.

Steam hardware survey to the rescue.

That was a similar business model of Sun Microsystems and SunOS/Solaris operating system, except it failed to be a business desktop OS for the workplace... and then Oracle came along and murdered any chance of that idea taking effect at a later date.

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