This afternoon, NVIDIA announced their earnings for the third quarter of their 2019 fiscal year. Revenue was up 21% year-over-year to $3.181 billion. NVIDIA had margins this quarter of 60.4%, up 0.9% from the same time last year. Operating income for the quarter was $1.058 billion, up 18% from a year ago, and due to a booked tax benefit of $149 million, net income was $1.23 billion, up 47% from a year ago. Earnings per share came in at $1.97, up 48%.

Gaming revenue is still by far the largest part of NVIDIA’s earnings, with gaming revenue up 13% year-over-year to $1.764 million. NVIDIA of course released the GeForce RTX lineup this quarter, leapfrogging itself to remain at the top of the performance charts. However due to the quick fall of crypto currency, NVIDIA does have excess channel inventory of its older products due to vendors overstocking to try and keep up with the crypto boom which fell off so suddenly, but they expect to clear out that inventory soon.

Professional visualization had revenues of $305 million for the quarter, up 27.6% from Q3 2018. NVIDIA released Quadro RTX based on the new Turing architecture.

NVIDIA’s Datacenter group continues its rapid growth, delivering revenue of $792 million this quarter, up from $501 million a year ago, or a 58% gain. The company has delivered a lot of new products in this space over the last year, and has done an amazing job of delivering platforms for the fastest growing areas of computing.

Automotive based revenue was $172 million for the quarter, up 19.4% from Q3 2018. The company has achieved design wins for level-2 autopilot with Toyota, Volvo, and Isuzu, and have started production on Xavier which is the first single-chip autopilot SoC.

OEM & IP revenue was $148 million for the quarter, down from $191 million a year ago.

Looking ahead to Q4 2019, NVIDIA is expecting revenues of $2.7 billion, plus or minus 2%. That would compare to $2.9 billion in Q4 2018.

Source: NVIDIA Investor Relations