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They earn a ton of money with cuda. You forgot about that workstation market.

They reason that Nvidia can get away with charging more than AMD is since people are willing to pay more. Thats it. I'll flat out say it, on average they have better software support. When I say better software support I'm talking more AA modes (SGSSAA, working transparency aa that doesn't come at a massive performance hit, better msaa compatibility), fewer compatibility issues (I've had a lot of issues with artifacts on AMD cards and I'm not talking bad hardware, all known repeatable issues), and less microstutter. Then there is the fact that if you need support you can get a hold of someone on their forums. AMD doesn't respond or monitor their own forums. As where I've gotten quite a bit of info off of Nvidia's forum.

Nvidia has provided me any many other people more consistent support over the years. They have earned a better reputation. I'm sure that the years of TWIMTBP helped too. Marketing works, it seems like AMD has only started recently. Its going to take time.

AMD has come a long way imo. Their gaming evolved program is going to pay off in the long run. I think that Mantle could be huge for AMD. I would still like to see them work on some of their other areas though. Mostly RGSSAA support and better TRSSAA.

Most people aren't willing to buy an AMD card at a similar price to a similar performing Nvidia card and its not hard to see why.