I figured it would be fun chatting about this, Nvidia is usually the very standard go to these days and I can see why, you slot it in it's all very straightforward and pretty much guaranteed to work for the most part. Back in the day I would be going with AMD graphics cards because that's the budget option but I am one of those people who failed the hardware lottery multiple times when it came to AMD and I've had nothing but trouble with them.
Would you recommend AMD cards in 2024? Their software has certainly gotten much better and it's not weird login required crap like GeForce Experience. I've been pondering if I ever get some kind of rendering setup which hardware would be a good idea to go with.
I can't speak to rendering, just gaming performance. I have been using AMD for at least a few generations now, from the 290 to 5700xt, to 7900xt currently. Mostly its a cost factor for me, saving a bit of money.
I don't worry about playing the [current year] games too much, so never have an issue (such as low frame rate) where I think maybe I should've gotten the current nVidia instead. When I do play some game that was first sold within the past 12 months, no issues usually (did have the terrain bug in RDR2 where snow was rendered wrong, but that was fixed by a driver update later on).
As far as I am concerned, as someone who dos not require the absolute maximum purchasable performance available at time of purchase, AMD is a worthwhile option.