NVIDIA Guide often recalls the number of owners of the GeForce graphics card family, when it comes to the potential for growth in sales volumes, revenues and other indicators of interest of investors. It is estimated that there are more than 200 million GeForce graphics card owners. Based on these statistics, NVIDIA chapter last quarterly reporting conference tried to answer analyst asked about the potential of the modernization of those cards .
Chief Financial Officer during his speech said "exceptionally" strong growth in revenue in the direction of graphics processors and data centers. As always, the game maintained a good trend in sales volumes of graphic Pascal generation processors. CEO noted that the average owner of GeForce graphics card usually changes every three to four years. Pascal is on the market no more than two full quarters, and to transfer the majority of the owners of this generation GeForce graphics cards will require a few more years. However, the founder of NVIDIA convinced that this process will be smooth and non-stop.
In the segment "e-sports", as noted by the latest NVIDIA chapter, GeForce unofficially considered the "gold standard". It is this kind of activity will develop at a good pace in the coming years, increasing the number of supporters and raising fees contestants. Soon the "e-sports" become the most popular spectator sport in the world, according to CEO of NVIDIA. The company is going to earn interest in this type of activity not only through sales of graphics processors, but also through the development of "cloud" infrastructure to broadcast games on the device, which, by their hardware configurations for these games rather weak.