It's simple, the 395+ Max Strix Halo you bought for $1800 is now a ~$4000 build (at least the AMD AI dev unit). If only we had time travel right? Either way, the Nvidia unit comes with Connect-X 7. That may or may not matter to you, but the hardware for that isn't cheap. In general the Nvidia cards also have better support for models. I know AMD is trying to catch up but anything except their datacenter cards do not seem to be getting a lot of attention.
AMD is barely trying. The 395+ Max Strix Halo was launched January 2025.
gfx1151 was not listed in the ROCm compatibility matrix for ROCm 7.2.4 [0]. This is the previous version of ROCm.
It's only finally received support in ROCm 7.14.0 [1]! It literally just started receiving support last week.
[0] https://rocm.docs.amd.com/en/docs-7.2.4/compatibility/compat...
[1] https://rocm.docs.amd.com/en/docs-7.14.0/compatibility/compa...