Shockingly, based on the trailing price-to-earnings multiple for both companies, AMD's shares are far more expensive. The stock has a P/E of 106, while Nvidia's is much lower at 40. So not only is Nvidia the dominant AI processor company, but its shares are also relatively cheaper, easily making Nvidia the better AI stock to own in this matchup.

Advanced Micro Devices shares lost ground Thursday as Jefferies analysts downgraded the stock, saying they expect the performance gap between AMD's latest products and Nvidia's to widen.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) fell nearly 3% in pre-market trading Thursday after Jefferies downgraded the stock to ‘Hold’ from ‘Buy’ and lowered its price target to $120 from $135. The brokerage cited growing competitive pressures from Intel (INTC) and Nvidia (NVDA) and expressed skepticism over AMD’s AI growth projections,