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amd vs nvidia on Hacker News

Across 2007–2026 of Hacker News, nvidia leads amd vs nvidia with 73,668 mentions to amd’s 72,668, peaking in Jan 2025.

Mention-over-time for amd vs nvidia, overlaid across 2007–2026 of Hacker News. Each line is a live date-histogram over ~45M posts and comments, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

amd72,668 mentions, peak Nov 2020nvidia73,668 mentions, peak Jan 2025
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How the lead changed hands

The silicon baton pass: AMD leads 2017–20 on the Ryzen/Zen comeback, then Nvidia overtakes with the 2020–23 GPU-and-AI surge.

The stories behind each line

Top “amd” stories
  1. Run CUDA, unmodified, on AMD GPUs 1,330 points · 2024
  2. AMD funded a drop-in CUDA implementation built on ROCm: It's now open-source 1,045 points · 2024
  3. AMD lands Google, Twitter as customers with newest server chip 837 points · 2019
  4. I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs 772 points · 2025
Top “nvidia” stories
  1. Nvidia releases open-source GPU kernel modules 2,410 points · 2022
  2. Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B 2,122 points · 2020
  3. “Amateur” programmer fought cancer with 50 Nvidia Geforce 1080Ti 1,143 points · 2022
  4. Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for more than $32B 1,106 points · 2020

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