They don't do the same job. What drugs are you on?
As shown
here, the difference at 1920 x 1080 in Skyrim for example is the difference between an unplayable game (<30FPS) and a playable one. There are many examples like that. And I too have owned gear from both companies. The last resort of calling someone a fanboy is just a copout.
This is especially true when you want to run multiple high end graphics cards.
Why do you think they have laid off 10% of their staff, quiting the desktop market? If BD was a success this wouldn't have happened. Simple.
1. They do do the same job, I never said they both did it at the same speed, FPS,or how ever you want to measure them. You can look at specs all you want, to me personally, that means little to nothing because I'm not going to play games at that setting. To you it may sure. I look at it from the stand point, of what I personally am going to use it for, image editing, some gaming, and internet browsing. When it all comes down to it, you have to look at something that fits what your target goal is, your look at it is more of the enthusiast benchmark type of guy, on the other hand, i look at it as, will can it run smooth, does my program launch quickly, do my photos import fast, is my games load in a reasonable time, does photoshop/LR3 export my edited files quickly etc.
2. I was responding to the original poster, when he asked "why do people hate on AMD" Calling someone a fan boy, isn't a copout. Lol, when you say AMD makes crap, its ridiculous, because they make quality products, that work pretty damn good.
3. I would agree, with you BD, would have def. helped out AMD, but again, calling them crap is far from an accurate statement.