NVIDIA may be in the rough on the PC market due to its delayed Fermi architecture, but the choice to go with professional users first looks to have paid off. Considering the income from the sales in the professional sector NVIDIA did the right thing. Up to 35% of NVIDIA’s revenue comes from this market, which is nearly twice as much as the 18% that the GeForce family supplies.
The third most important is integrated solutions with 12% of the operation and even if they ship considerably larger amounts of GeForce cards and integrated circuits than professional cards the prices and margins are many times higher for the Quadro series and other professional solutions.
Compared to the number of professional graphics cards sold annually, the unit sales of discrete GPUs and integrated GPUs are about 20x and 50x higher, respectively. However, the average price of a professional graphic card is 7-8x higher than the price of a discrete GPU.
The margins with NVIDIA’s professional cards was estimated to be around 58% by the end of the year and is guaranteed to be a number NVIDIA used for motivation when developing the Fermi architecture that was developed as a highly efficient in GPGPU applications.
Quadro Plex 1000 – one of NVIDIA’s more advanced professional solutions
With over 85% of the professional graphics card market under its control NVIDIA has a smörgåsbord (we own that word) before itself thanks to the Quadro family. Even if it may not be showering the market with products at the moment there is little reason to dismiss the green camp.
