The wonderful thing for NVIDIA and its investors is that the company is in the early stages of profiting from both ends: Designers are using its RTX Quadro GPUs in their workstations to design video games with real-time ray tracing, and gamers are upgrading their graphics card to one in the GeForce RTX series to get the full benefit of the more realistic images in these games.
This technology brings cinematic-quality images to video games and other applications. Along with possessing artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, these GPUs enable real-time ray tracing - a huge industry breakthrough. That's largely thanks to NVIDIA's RTX GPUs, which began rolling out in late 2018. Esports continues to rapidly gain more enthusiasts and the quality of video games should improve at an even faster rate. In 2025, the gaming market should be much bigger. (The company just reported its Q4 and full-year 2020 results two weeks ago you can read my earnings take here.) Its gaming revenue has increased from $4.06 billion in fiscal 2017 to $5.52 billion in fiscal 2020. And as the dominant supplier of graphics cards, NVIDIA has naturally benefited from the market's growth. The gaming market has been booming, which NVIDIA management has largely attributed to the phenomenal popularity of esports and the increasing quality of video games.
The global gaming market will continue its robust growth Last year, chip behemoth Intel ( INTC 4.30%) confirmed reports that it planned to enter this space in 2020. NVIDIA and AMD won't have the discrete GPU market to themselves anymore, however. NVIDIA is more dominant in the higher-end graphics card market - and that's a plus since profit margins are usually fatter in the more upscale end of all product categories.
Moreover, while market share is important, it's not the be-all and end-all. That said, there's no good reason to believe that AMD will catch up to NVIDIA within five years. AMD has been gaining ground, however, as it had share of 27.1% in the previous quarter. In the fourth quarter of 2019, the company controlled 68.9% of this market, compared with Advanced Micro Devices' ( AMD 1.88%) 31.1%, according to research firm JPR's hot-off-the-presses report. NVIDIA dominates the market for discrete graphics processing units (GPUs) - the key component in graphics cards for desktop computer gaming. NVIDIA will still be the leading supplier of graphics cards for computer gaming
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