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However, AMD's MI300X offers 36% higher raw FP8 compute (192 vs 141 TFLOPS) and costs 33% less, making it compelling for budget-conscious research teams. NVIDIA's advantage is software maturity and enterprise support, not raw performance."},{"question":"Is AMD now competitive with NVIDIA for gaming?","answer":"Yes, AMD's RX 7900 XTX matches or exceeds RTX 4080 gaming performance (92 fps vs 87 fps in 4K) while costing $400 less ($799 vs $1,199). However, NVIDIA maintains 80% discrete gaming GPU market share because GeForce drivers receive faster updates, better ray-tracing optimization, and have 10+ year driver legacy support. AMD wins on value; NVIDIA wins on ecosystem."},{"question":"Why does NVIDIA dominate data centers if AMD has better specs?","answer":"CUDA has 18 years of optimization across 81,000 applications—the entire ML stack (PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face) prioritizes CUDA. Switching costs are massive: enterprises invested billions in CUDA code. 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