{"id":72222,"date":"2015-02-13T11:11:18","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T09:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=72222"},"modified":"2015-02-13T11:14:50","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T09:14:50","slug":"nvidia-is-dominating-the-gpu-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/72222-nvidia-is-dominating-the-gpu-market","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia is dominating the GPU market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nvidia recently released its results for the three months between November 2014 and January 2015\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0and they are dominating.<\/p>\n<p>Due to an increase in demand for its new Maxwell graphics cards, the company&#8217;s revenue was up 9% to R14.6 billion ($1.25 billion), with\u00a0a net income of R2.26 billion ($193 million).<\/p>\n<p>In comparison, AMD&#8217;s last quarter was more troubled &#8211; a 13% drop in revenue to R14.5 billion ($1.24 billion), with a net loss of R4.26 billion ($364 million) &#8211; ouch.<\/p>\n<p>Which card helped make this happen for Nvidia? The GeForce GTX 980, of course.<\/p>\n<p>Nvidia released the GTX 980, GTX 970, and GTX 960 desktop graphics cards in recent months, along with mobile versions of the 980 and 970.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it made 38% more money on its\u00a0GeForce GPUs this quarter, helping profits to climb to R2.2 billion ($193 million).<\/p>\n<p>For the full year, Nvidia made R7.3 billion ($630 million) in profit. That&#8217;s enough to buy at least two high-end gaming PCs and a few games. (Just kidding).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Momentum is accelerating in each of our market-specialized platforms, driving record revenue in the quarter and full year,&#8221; said\u00a0Nvidia.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the cards that helped rake in the cash for Nvidia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GTX 980<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_71004\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ASUS-ROG-MATRIX-GTX-980-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71004\" class=\"size-large wp-image-71004\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ASUS-ROG-MATRIX-GTX-980-2-600x449.jpg\" alt=\"Asus ROG Matrix GTX 980\" width=\"600\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ASUS-ROG-MATRIX-GTX-980-2-600x449.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ASUS-ROG-MATRIX-GTX-980-2.jpg 1543w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-71004\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asus ROG Matrix GTX 980 &#8211; Power House<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>GTX 970<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_68961\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/MSI-GeForce-GTX-970.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68961\" class=\"size-large wp-image-68961\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/MSI-GeForce-GTX-970-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"MSI GeForce GTX 970\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/MSI-GeForce-GTX-970-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/MSI-GeForce-GTX-970.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-68961\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MSI GeForce GTX 970 &#8211; Memory issues?<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>GTX 960<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_71598\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/MSI-GTX-960.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71598\" class=\"size-large wp-image-71598\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/MSI-GTX-960-600x417.jpg\" alt=\"MSI GTX 960\" width=\"600\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/MSI-GTX-960-600x417.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/MSI-GTX-960-96x68.jpg 96w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/MSI-GTX-960.jpg 983w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-71598\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MSI GTX 960 &#8211; She&#8217;s a pretty little thing<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Are you helping the Nvidia cause? Let us know in the comments and forum.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More hardware news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/72135-tablets-will-be-more-powerful-than-consoles-ea.html\">Tablets will be more powerful than consoles: EA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/71933-gtx-960-vs-970-vs-980-price-and-performance-comparison.html\">GTX 960 vs 970 vs 980 \u2013 price and performance comparison<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/72087-meet-msis-r70000-titanic-gaming-laptop.html\">Meet MSI\u2019s R70,000 Titanic gaming laptop<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nvidia&#8217;s graphics cards are bringing in the money in a big way<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":68909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2420,21,45,12977],"class_list":["post-72222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-geforce","tag-headline","tag-nvidia","tag-nvidia-geforce-gtx-980"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72226,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72222\/revisions\/72226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}