AMD Shipped 16 Million 5000 Series Cards in 9 Months

Posted 07/18/2010 at 9:25am | by Justin Kerr

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ATI came screaming out of the gate with a competitive lineup of GPU's just in time for the release of DirectX 11, and we now know it's a gamble that seems to have paid off. According to numbers released late last week AMD shipped more than 16 million 5000 series GPU's in the last 9 months, an increase of nearly 87 per cent over the results from the prior year.

Despite the positive sales numbers AMD still posted a net loss of $1.65 billion $43 million in Q2, but with revenues of more than $1.65 billion it shouldn’t take too long to turn this around. "Robust demand for our latest mobile platforms and solid execution drove record second quarter revenue and a healthy gross margin," said Dirk Meyer, AMD President and CEO.  "We added Sony as a microprocessor customer and continue to see our existing customers expand their AMD-based platform offerings".     

With three new GPU's on the market Nvidia finally has some skin in the game, but this is a far cry from the nearly 12 different offerings from ATI that hit up just about every price point imaginable. Nvidia still controls the lion share of the market, but this is the first sizable dent ATI has managed to put in its competitor.

Given that ATI has almost as many DirectX11 GPU's on the market as Sony has PS3's, we can't help but wonder, where are all the games!

EDITED: To Reflect Proper Sales / Loss Information.