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AMD is not generally better, not on Linux not on Windows. The GPUs are more expensive (I heard) and have worse performance, and no CUDA support (likely NVIDIA threatened them so they told the ZLUDA dev to stop).
NVIDIA totally sucks, but my experiences with AMD CPU+GPU (Thinkpad T495, Vega mobile 8) were not really great with constant freezes after sleep).
Intel really has the best support. And maybe some ARM GPUs.
It could have changed, but last I checked, I think AMD cards actually tend cheaper or about the same as Nvidia for the same specs. I’m not a cultish defender of AMD, though, as ROCm support sucks honestly (biased though because I’m bitter about Polaris being dropped so quick).
Your Thinkpad problem sounds more like some sort of power profile problem rather than an AMD GPU issue, though it could just be with Vega. I have an AMD Cezzanne Thinkpad E16 with an AMD iGPU that works very nicely, probably one of the best-working Linux devices I’ve ever owned.
You can still technically use Vega and Polaris with ROCm, the official stance is that it's no longer validated.
With that said, the setup and development experience is pretty dire and the docs do not seem to get updated in a timely manner.
Anecdotes aren't data. It's not difficult to find comparative pricing information. I think you would generally find this is untrue, though it's worth considering regional pricing.
EULA violation. This one is cut and dry. You could have made a better point about the state of ROCm (narrow product and platform support, poor documentation, library gaps in HIP).
Look at the state of ANV for Arc dGPU on Linux.