You sound like you never play emulators.
First, people aren't rich. If the choice is not play any emulators, or play them with AMD, that's the choice they have, regardless.
Second, you overblow the performance difference and how noticeable that is in reality. AMD already matches or outperforms the real hardware.
Third, price/performance ratio overall matters, even if you care primarily for emulators.
I see this drivers thing a lot, but in my experience nvidia has given me a lot more drivers trouble where I have to reainstall than AMD.
Getting a cheaper AMD CPU might mean getting a more powerful card, which matters A LOT in gaming outside of emulators.
>You sound like you never play emulators.
And you are grasping at straws by saying baseless shit. I say that because I have a fuckton of emulation experience and have had AMD and ATI in the past, they've never been good at emulating games and even with Intel I've experienced having CPUs just under the task of emulating the game, it renders it completely unplayable.
You're talking about performance in the context of normal video games and not emulated games which slow down, glitch out, or have broken audio under load. It's you who evidently doesn't emulate much.
It doesn't matter, gimping yourself is just retarded if you're building a PC to emulate. You want the best CPU unless you're only upgrading for a specific game you know runs well on a specific chip.
No man, my shit ain't baseless.
I play emulators on a 2600, I know how much it performs, I know how much it cost me, and I know how much an Intel chip would have, and where it would have been better/worse than the AMD one.
You are the one that is talking out of your ass with situations that have little to do with real world scenarios and usage cases.
>best driver
AMD has better linux drivers. Windows has roughly equivalent drivers. No need to be an NPC and parrot some 10 year old meme.
>most powerful cards
Irrelevant. Only 1% of people care about spending >$500 cards. For most people, $100-$400 is more than good enough. There's strong AMD competition in this sector.
>best supporting software
>CUDA
Irrelevant for gaming
>EPIC Games/Unreal Engine
Valid. But I don't support the practice of artificial inflation of gaming benchmark because games are utilizing nVidia only proprietary middleware to cripple AMD cards. Its anti-consumer tactics and harms the competitive industry.
Ultimately I don't care too much about perfect performance but rather about whether or not I can afford a gaming card in the forseeable future. I don't want the next RTX 3060 to be locked behind $500 line up. I'd rather RTX 3060 be brought down to $200 lineup like how the *60 line up has always been at.
If WW3 breaks out, not playing games will be the least of your worries you dumb fucking retard.
It is baseless because I know I've emulated more than you have.
You don't even know about the software I'm talking about, typical linux poorfag. You don't even play video games do you?
Yeah, that's why you base your "arguments" on outdated videos...