Better Buy: NVIDIA vs. Advanced Micro Devices

The stocks of chip companies Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) and NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) have been on the rise over the past year, with the former up roughly 90% and the latter up some 160%. Which of these two archrivals looks like the best buy now? Let's take a look.

VEGA FRONTIER EDITION GPU. IMAGE SOURCE: ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC.

After long being dominated by Intel and NVIDIA, AMD has had a strong start to 2017. AMD received a lot of attention for several new product launches, including its new Ryzen CPUs, Vega GPUs, and its new Epyc chip for servers. These new chips offer a competitive value proposition, and investors are clearly optimistic about AMD's prospects.

Source: Fool.com