Nvidia Has the AI Hype. AMD Has the Valuation. I’d Buy This Stock.

Quick Read

• AMD surged 143% YTD versus NVDA’s 20%, with 33 EPS upgrades in 30 days signaling markets are already pricing AMD’s Data Center catch-up.

• Anthropic locked in 2 gigawatts of AMD’s MI450 GPUs, anchoring Lisa Su’s forecast for data center revenue to more than double in 2027.

• Despite NVDA’s superior 60% operating margins, the author favors AMD as the more asymmetric bet while Helios ships and 2027 estimates keep rising.

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NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) and AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) both reported quarters that redefined what an AI cycle looks like.

NVIDIA posted $96.22B in revenue, up 105.8% YoY. AMD delivered $11.54B, up 50.1% YoY, with Data Center more than doubling. One dominates. The other is finally scaling. That contrast is the whole trade.

Vera Rubin Lifts NVIDIA. Helios Finally Ships for AMD

NVIDIA’s Data Center segment alone hit $89.02B, up 117% YoY, with networking growing 138% YoY. Vera Rubin is in full production, and Jensen Huang framed the moment bluntly: “AI has reached its inflection point. It’s doing useful work.

Its tokens are productive and profitable. Now, compute is revenue.” Revenue per gigawatt has climbed from $18 billion on Hopper to $40 billion on Vera Rubin. That is monetization at scale.

AMD’s story is scrappier and, in some ways, more interesting. Data Center revenue reached $6.72B, up 107% YoY, and the segment swung to $2.10B operating income from a $155M loss.

Lisa Su said “Customer pull for Helios is very strong and tracking ahead of our initial forecasts.” Anthropic committed to up to 2 gigawatts of MI450 GPUs. That is a real anchor customer with committed capacity.

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Scale Dominance Versus Catch-Up Economics

NVIDIA’s platform advantage is staggering. Operating margin sits at 60.4%, ROE at 101.5%, and supply commitments have surged to $279B, largely memory for Vera Rubin. Huang admitted the constraint openly: “At this moment, we have supply for 70%… Our demand is much higher than that.”

AMD trades at a forward P/E of 31 against NVIDIA’s 26, but AMD’s 2027 EPS estimate has jumped from 12.9595 ninety days ago to 15.4507, with 33 upward revisions in the trailing 30 days. That revision velocity is what “catching up” actually looks like on a chart. AMD stock has run 143.32% year to date versus NVIDIA’s 20.07%. The market is already voting.

Memory Costs and Helios Yields Decide 2027

Huang warned of “extreme pricing conditions in memory”, and NVIDIA expects margins to bottom at 71% to 72% in Q4.

For AMD, execution risk sits with Helios yields ramping through Q4 and into Q1 2027. Su expects data center segment revenue to more than double year-over-year in 2027. I want to see MI450 shipments hit that curve before celebrating.

Where the Setup Looks More Asymmetric

I own the debate here. NVIDIA is the higher-quality business, full stop. If you want durable compounding tied to the AI infrastructure buildout, its $5.40T market cap is not automatically expensive given a PEG of 0.59. But the risk/reward tilts toward AMD.

The setup reminds me of Data Center CPUs five years ago: a credible number-two closing a gap that markets priced as permanent (we reverse-engineered what the biggest chip winners looked like early in a free playbook here: The Next Nvidia Playbook).

With Helios shipping, Anthropic and Meta anchoring multi-gigawatt commitments, and 2027 estimates still rising weekly, the asymmetry favors AMD. If Helios stumbles or memory costs eat gross margin, I’d rotate. Until then, AMD screens as the more asymmetric setup on the data.

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