Better Artificial Intelligence Stock: Nvidia vs. AMD

Discrete GPUs were initially designed for use in video games and professional graphics applications, but they've now become the backbone of data centers that use them to process all sorts of computations, especially those involving complex artificial intelligence (AI) functions. Unlike CPUs, which process a single piece of data at a time through scalar processing, GPUs use vector processing to manage a wide range of floating-point numbers and integers simultaneously.

That key difference makes powerful data center GPUs the picks and shovels of the AI gold rush. Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) and Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) share a near-duopoly in this market, but which chipmaker is the better AI-driven investment right now?

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