Nvidia vs AMD - hare vs tortise.
Nvidia always gets out front because it knows how to spin the hype machine for buyers who fall for tech sizzle.
Nvidia's stock went up when it announced "ray tracing" (RTX). Its was supposed to use AI to render visual elements (shadows, reflections, atmospheres) more realistically
2018:
"Nvidia’s stock ends at record high as chip sector extends gains"
"Nvidia Corp. shares closed at a record Monday, leading the chip makers higher, tacking on gains from last week’s rally...Nvidia shares are up nearly 50% for the year.
“As gaming content utilizing ray-tracing capabilities becomes available, we see Turing’s performance potentially more than double that of Pascal. We expect to see games utilizing raytracing in 4Q,”
Nvidia Corp. leads the chip makers higher, tacking on gains from last week’s rally, even as some analysts question whether the sector is living on borrowed...
www.marketwatch.com
Then the 2020 reality was that "ray-tracing" was just hype
"Ray tracing was the great hope for Nvidia's current generation of graphics cards, and the main reason given for their high costs. Yet here we are on the dawn of the next-generation, and I'm still waiting for a ray tracing game that I actually give a damn about.... nearly two years after the release of the first RTX-capable card, the insanely expensive Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, there still isn't anything that really stands out as a must have ray tracing experience."
If I'd bought a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, I would be so pissed off right now.
www.pcgamer.com
NVIDIA has been pushing ray tracing as the greatest thing since sliced bread, but the head of Xbox appears to have differing thoughts.
www.thefpsreview.com
If people want to trade Nvidia there's certainly money around it but dont feel like Nvidia AI is Amazon or Google ready to soar for years on AI. The AI template fits the ray-tracing template. Nvidia is good at that while AMD likes to make good stuff without blowing smoke up people cheeks.
The most brilliant guy in computers is American Kim Keller. He got AMD turned around with Ryzen and did Intel before that. He's worked on Teslas. He makes complex things seem simpler an deeper at the same time