But but but, AMD really used to suck 10 years ago, so they must still suck and are unacceptable!
Ten years ago, AMD had good hardware but shitty drivers. Ten years on, nothing has changed, except that Intel makes faster processors.
The latest greatest drivers for the last AMD stuff I tried led to bluescreens in Win7 on boot which I fixed by replacing the card with an nvidia unit. Worked fine with the VGA driver, then I had to load last known good config because having the ATI driver active meant crash.
When AMD figures out how to write drivers, they can call me. I was willing to pay a lot less for a little less performance, but I'm tired of not actually being able to use the hardware.