As Q3 earning results indicate, Nvidia has recorded exceptional growth and profitability. Whereas AMD's Computing and Graphics segment has been inactive and unprofitable.
Another financial variation is that the investors and fans of AMD expectations subdued compared to the real performance and results obtained by AMD and this is also causing absolute financial contrast.
The war between Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE:AMD) and Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) has been going on for more than year. With its primary weapon, Polaris architecture GPU, AMD has been battling for its investors, PC users and gamers. In an article published by Seeking Alpha it is stated that even after its consistent effort, the latest earning reports of AMD make it very clear that the company is losing its battle.
On the other side, Nvidia's fiscal 2017 Q3 earnings report released on Nov.10, emphasized to the AMD followers that the whims of AMD to conquer over Nvidia this year, have come to an end finally. Nvidia recorded a revenue of $2.004 billion, which is up 54 percent y/y. GAAP operating income is up 130 percent to $708 million.
Quoting a revenue of $1.697 billion from GPU business, Nvidia's revenue is up 53 percent for the year and this is more than AMD's total revenue for 2016 Q3 of $1.307 billion. Revenue from gaming applications of Nvidia's GPU is $1.244 billion and this is up 63 percent y/y and is also up 59 percent progressively. As against this, AMD's Computing and Graphics revenue stood at $472 million, which is up 10 percent y/y, and 8 percent respectively. Additionally, Computing and Graphics recorded an operating loss of $66 million for the quarter.
According to Forbes, although AMD confronted multiple situations in the market, it does not affirm forfeit.
Despite Nvidia's earnings report of nearly 30 percent on Nov.11, the deep contrast in financial performance is not likely to affect the interests of AMD fans soon, and it is also expected that AMD stock is not likely to suffer due to Nvidia's results. The whole concentration of the fans is now focused on the upcoming AMD products, Zen and Vega that have promised to achieve success and profitability in 2017 that could not be obtained this year. Therefore, the followers of AMD are invalidating this year while making a note of market movements and expecting to validate next year for profitable results.