NVIDIA Doing Well, Despite Lack of Dx11 Cards

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AMD-ATI may have the most powerful consumer graphics card on the market right now in the Radeon HD 5970, but the folks at NVIDIA are still doing well, mostly led by their Quadro line of workstations graphics cards. With revenues of $982.5 million, the posted a profit of $131.1 million.

The last new consumer card that NVIDIA released was the GeForce GT 240, a low-end $100 card that was released in November 2009. Despite NVIDIA’s mindshare in the enthusiast community being at an all-time low, they’re still moving units of their Quadro workstations graphics cards, which are different from the GeForce series and are aimed at assisting 3D rendering and CAD software vs. gaming.

Although NVIDIA hasn’t come out with anything new since November, they showed off their new Ion and Ion 2 mobile graphics chipsets. The long tale of Fermi, their next-generation GPU, continued as NVIDIA delayed it, assuring us that we can expect to see Fermi-powered GeForce GTX 400-series cards sometime in the upcoming months.

The total number of GPU sales were up for the company, again, which were led by strong sales of the Quadro line. NVIDIA expects revenues and profits to lower over Q1 2010. Rumor has it that the new GeForce GTX 400 series will be launched in late Q1 2010, which should setup NVIDIA for a strong Q2 2010, financially speaking.

Graphics competitor ATI is wholly owned by AMD, and AMD did very well in Q4 of last year as well.