Only gpu that ever had any hype from them was the lightning, besides that there were pretty average. Sapphire, powecolor, and asus seemed much more popular for the amd side.
xfx and evga left nvidia, yet that somehow wasn't the start of the sounds of doom thundering in the distance, msi leaves amd and its comical how the naysayers putting a slanted spin on this come out of the woodwork. People just love to twist things, pretty sad.
With MSi gone that "only" leaves Built by AMD, Sapphire, Asus, Asrock, Gigabyte, XFX and Powercolor. Yeah, that has really thinned the herd out...said nobody ever.
Its probably the case that AMD blew them out, i don't want to say that there is anything wrong with Intel's APU's, right, but AMD's are a much better fit for handheld gaming devices, there is a reason rather boringly every goes AMD.
The only reason MSI would go Intel is if they are stupid or Intel paid them off, AMD don't have the right to dominate that segment but AMD are very sensitive to Intel paying people off, it could just as easily be a case of AMD being: naw man, _____ that _____, good bye...
And MSI were currently the worst of the lot arguably.
My 2070S was an MSI Gaming X, i have no complaints about it, it was a good card.
But i'll tell you what, when i pulled the Pulse out from its plain brown inner box i got that sinking feeling, it was about half the size of the MSI card, tiny, right, i put the thing in and started stress testing it, Unigine Superposition, it was completely silent, are the fans even running? yes at about 18% with temps in the low 60's.
This card despite being half the size and half the weight of the MSI card was quieter, the MSI card i always thought was quiet, it was, but this thing out of the box is near inaudible, even if i pump 300 watts in to it its still no louder than the MSI card was, i run it 24/7 at about 280 watts.
Again i don't think this makes the MSI card bad, its just the difference between a mediocre cooler design and a really good one.
I took the thing out again and had a proper look at it, its really nicely put together, good quality materials, better than the MSI card, it would make a good mini ITX card given its so small and capable.