It could never be that Nvidia is often competitive and that youre using confirmation bias to pretend everyone is an nvidia fanboy. I mean, its not like should have gotten a 390 wasnt a meme for the longest period of time.

The 10 best-selling cards on Newegg were 750Ti's and GTX 970's the entire time the 390 was on sale. And it wasn't about TDP, either, as a 390/i5 system will never pass 450W.

The R9 380 beat the GTX 960 for the same money, but didn't sell even a quarter as well. Same story with the R9 Fury non-X and the 980 non-Ti, and the GTX 950 and 370.

Go to literally any game forum or board where you're likely to find a lot of semi-technologically illiterate people and the consensus is that AMD is second rate. Myths and anecdotes about bad drivers and overheating are rampant. You have to keep in mind that this sub and places like it have the most tech-focused people anywhere, and even here there and tons of fanboys flinging bullshit about X brand. Play any game with a username or icon referencing AMD and you'll get tons of "lol AMD user gonna crash any second". Theres a very obvious Nvidia bias in the PC gaming community as a whole.