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Possible Radeon 390X / 390 and 380X Spec / Benchmark (do not hotlink images!!!!!!)

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D.P. said:
Gross profit margin is now 56.73%, wow
http://ycharts.com/companies/NVDA/gross_profit_margin
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Looking at those figures gross margin doesn't include R&D costs which for a graphics card manufacturer sounds to me like it doesn't paint a realistic picture.

Or to put it another way once we remove manufacturing costs, sale costs and R&D costs Nvidia are on 15% profit, not quite as good a headline though I guess ;-)
 
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straxusii said:
Looking at those figures gross margin doesn't include R&D costs which for a graphics card manufacturer sounds to me like it doesn't paint a realistic picture.
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For Nvidia that all-in margin figure is 11.64%, it was around 15% in 2011.

You can't really use that figure in the context of this question because it has all sorts of deductions in there and it can also be negatively manipulated by in-efficiencies in the company as much as R&D. Gross margin is the best per product figure to use in order to determine how much money a company generates off a given product.

To get an understanding of per card profit vs. R&D cost you need to look at in a per quarterly fashion. Nvidia spends around $1.3BN USD per year on R&D investment against $4.7BN USD revenue.

Roughly 25% ? so on a gross margin per Titan X card ($400 approx. profit) that means that inside the $400 USD Nvidia spend $90 USD on R&D.

So, minus R&D costs you could then speculate that Nvidia make $390 USD on each Titan X card, assuming my earlier example of a $1000 USD inc. retail price.
 
humbug said:
Good stuff thanks, he has one and while being coy about it he's optimistic about power, performance and power consumption.
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Without watching the entire thing, he said he'd held one, that isn't the same as saying he has one.

Back in the day I went to a ATi tech briefing for a what I really irritatingly can't remember what it was, I think it might have been a 9700 AIW or something. They literally passed one around a room around a bunch of press to see it, bare card, but there wasn't one working or even in a computer being used.

Most of it was just one of those slide packs you see but with some people actually talking you through the slides and answering some questions. A pre launch here's a hint of what is coming press event.

I would say it's very likely AMD have shown it off in such an event to press already but unlikely there are a bunch of cards in the wild for reviewers to play with yet.

When you start getting leaked numbers 2-4 weeks before launch, that is when you can tell press review samples have gone out ;)
 
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