Between ROCm and GPUOpen, the AMD software team really seems to be setting themselves up for success. If their hardware team hits a home run or Nvidia makes a misstep, perhaps we could see a significant shift in market share.
It's disappointing to see GPLed scientific software which won't run unless you have the closed hardware and software of a particular manufacturer.
Except thanks to my AMD GPU, (and especially on Windows) there is zero ability to.
[1] It baffles me that this obvious behavior needs any kind of driver support. "turn off the fan when temperature drops below X" feature was present in cars before software was even invented.
See: AdoredTV's The GPU War is Over https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN7i1bViOkU
However if you look at this year's numbers for AMD's graphics division you'll see they're waaaay up despite AMD being almost absent from the Steam hardware survey.
So what's going on? Crypto currencies.
AMD's current GPUs lend themselves very well to mining crypto currencies and as a result they have been virtually unavailable on the market for the last year.
This is both good and bad for AMD. In the short term it's getting money but in the long term it's losing market share and mind share to Nvidia.
The conclusions drawn in the video might be correct but only time will tell. Things will also be interesting when all those RX 480/580 GPUs start getting dumped on ebay as the DAG file sizes for crypto currencies exceed their RAM capacity. That probably won't be until 2019 or later.