AMD GPUs have consistenly had higher compute performance than Nvidia. The Fury X, for example, consistently outperforms the Titan X for half the price.[1] That&#x27;s why AMD has completely dominated the bitcoin &#x2F; cryptohashing scene: money is involved, so people are willing to spend time optimizing for different hardware.<p>Nvidia captured this market using typical vendor lock-in tactics: they didn&#x27;t support OpenCL 1.2 until many years after it was released, and they still don&#x27;t support OpenCL 2.0+.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anandtech.com&#x2F;show&#x2F;9390&#x2F;the-amd-radeon-r9-fury-x-review&#x2F;24" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anandtech.com&#x2F;show&#x2F;9390&#x2F;the-amd-radeon-r9-fury-x-...</a>