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giteam OP t1_jbdxrev wrote

The price of graphics cards has now fallen from the super-inflated prices of 2021 to more 'normal' prices, and NVIDIA's FY22 revenue is actually flat from FY21 as a result

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mev_one t1_jbe35pg wrote

What is the definition of "cost of revenue "?

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Nexustar t1_jbe466x wrote

It's the "real" bit of the costs involved in delivering product. Materials, manufacturing & distribution. But I think it's a bit flexible (can differ company to company) - but in essence should involve costs that directly mirror production quantity.

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FormerKarmaKing t1_jbe49it wrote

Data center is a generic term for renting out the hardware needed to run services on the internet. Amazon’s AWS is the largest provider in the world with Microsoft and Google behind them. Competing against companies like those is obviously very hard.

NVIDIA, however, has a massive advantage when it comes to hosting software that requires a lot of GPUs. This includes graphics programs but also AI software.

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Nathanondorf t1_jbe4rsv wrote

I bought a 1070 Ti around 6 months after the 20 series came out. I paid roughly $250 $500* at that time. Today the 3070 Ti would be the equivalent. I don’t know if the 40 series has been out for 6 months, but one 3070 Ti is currently going for about $700, and I’m supposed to believe these prices are “normal”? I guess those prices aren’t too far off, considering inflation. Still higher than ideal though.

Edit: I looked up my receipt for said purchase of 1070 Ti in 2018. Looks like I actually paid around $500. I thought I purchased two cards for that price, but I guess my wife bought her own and I remembered wrong.

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MichaelMJTH t1_jbe5lla wrote

The word ‘normal’ definitely deserves to be in quotation marks. Graphics card prices are in a weird spot. Manufacturing bottleneck have now loosened post the covid era electronics supply shortage. And the crypto mining crash has lead to demand decreasing dramatically, right as Nvidia had stock ready for the cards. So price deflation has happened, but it’s most noticeable mainly in the resellers/ 2nd hand markets where used stock is flooding.

However, Nvidia and their competitor AMD has on the other hand increased the prices for each tier of its latest generation flagship GPUs. This has led to a lack of the same enthusiasm for the latest GPU launch when compared to the previous generation launch in 2020. Couple that with the flood of prior generation used cards on the market, new graphics card sales in units and revenue were down year on year in 2022.

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EVOOhhYeah t1_jbe6csh wrote

Not only that, but received $200 million in tax benefits for all that R&D spend. Tax breaks for R&D make sense for smaller orgs, but not at this scale. NVIDIA would continue to innovate at this scale without the tax breaks to maintain their market edge.

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Gunra t1_jbec7ac wrote

Zero $ in taxes and getting money for R&D? It must be sick to live outside of the system.

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Wind_14 t1_jbeda7j wrote

It's more like special server that is not only used to store stuff but also to do heavy-work jobs like AI, simulation (especially near real-life one) rendering animation etc.

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Big_Knife_SK t1_jbeffso wrote

I don't know what the program is called in other countries but in Canada it's called SR&ED. Basically you can claim back up to 70% of the expenses you paid into R&D, including salary.

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Obvious_Chapter2082 t1_jbes8mq wrote

That’s not true at all. The reason their rate is low is due to R&D getting capitalized this year, which increases the amount of FDII they pay.

If you look at the actual tax they paid this year, it’s around $2 billion, or a 50% tax rate

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this_sort_of_thing t1_jbesen9 wrote

And then be dead in a few years because your product and services lineup is stagnant and your competitors are running rings around you.

It takes money to make money, and especially for high technology companies like nVidia

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Obvious_Chapter2082 t1_jbesfa9 wrote

Go look at their 10-K, they paid around $2 billion, or a 50% tax rate. The reason their income tax expense is negative is due to R&D getting capitalized this year, so they get a large deferred foreign benefit, but that doesn’t reduce the actual tax they owe

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tjwenger t1_jbevht7 wrote

What is the name of this graph/chart type/visualization?

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garry4321 t1_jbfddt0 wrote

What I see is that if all of us gamers banded together and boycotted their proce gouging, we could make them either lower their prices or face a 4+ billion dollar loss.

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bumblyburg t1_jbfhvft wrote

Why am I not seeing depreciation & amortization costs?

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asclepiannoble t1_jbfm4xd wrote

Inflation-adjusted and tier-matched, GPU prices are definitely not normal :) But I suppose it's true that crypto-driven price inflation at least is no longer the concern now.

Now, it looks more like NVIDIA itself is adjusting the prices to match those at some points of 2021.

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magnora7 t1_jbfnkiv wrote

I think it's funny how the salaries of everyone but the owners is seen as a fixed asset to be minimized, part of the expense, but the "net profit" is only enjoyed by those at the top of the company. As if human beings who aren't management are a tool like a lathe or a computer that you just buy.

It honestly cracks me up how normalized this is, and how basically no one questions it.

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danielv123 t1_jbfqexn wrote

No, like licenses, A100 and H100 cards. H100 is 33k pre tax, each.

They sell them in pre built machines with 8x H100, 8Tbps bidirectional networking, 112 cores, 30TB of nvme storage and 2TB memory. That is 640gb VRAM per machine.

Oh, and they are linked together. They sell hundreds of these machines at a time.

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markhc t1_jbfs8u8 wrote

I think the data center on this chart refers to the sales of GPU to big data centers like those you mentioned.

Or, in other words, the revenue from sales of their data-center cards like A100, V100, etc.

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girl_mourns_bro t1_jbfuc4e wrote

what does nvidia provide for automotive industry? 900 million $ is a lot of money...

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Zenged_ t1_jbfxld4 wrote

So the government pays Nvidia taxes?

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Torontogamer t1_jbg0f5a wrote

same reason as most places, because that's what they think you'll pay for it ...

conceptually it makes sense to promote drug development, and most development, but in practice it's very hard to implement anything 'fairly' when they are billions of dollars at stake.

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Obvious_Chapter2082 t1_jbg3p5s wrote

This is the danger of looking at highly technical tax information and assuming it’s a simple read. If you dig into the 10-K for this company, they actually paid about 50% of their profit in tax this year. The discrepancy comes from a new R&D capitalization policy, which gives them a deferred tax benefit on their foreign derived intangible income. This benefit is only a small portion of the actual higher tax they’ll pay from this policy, but the US portion doesn’t impact effective tax rates

It’s wrong to say that corporations barely pay any tax, because income tax expense is a misleading metric that doesn’t relate to the tax a company pays

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rusself t1_jbghq5f wrote

Instead of paying taxes.. they actually get more paid.. this fucken bullshit gotta stop

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proactiveplatypus t1_jbgkequ wrote

It’s not going straight into the pocket of Jensen Huang.

The net profit would be paid out either by investing in the company (ie, hiring more or retaining existing talent), paying down debt, or paying dividends to the shareholders.

Nvidia pays a pretty paltry dividend, but those fixed salary employees you mentioned also receive stock as compensation, so they would see some of that profit.

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vou_discordar t1_jbgnv5b wrote

I hate these graphs. You lose the relation between the parts. Beautiful but useless.

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rito-pIz t1_jbgspg9 wrote

Am I reading that "tax" right?

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ctaylor0128 t1_jbgtluy wrote

PRE-TAX: $4.2 billion…. NET after taxes: $4.4 billion

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jep5680jep t1_jbgx6rq wrote

Can someone explain the difference between cost of revenue vs operating expenses?

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Cakeking7878 t1_jbh3tu5 wrote

Wtf. I keep hearing the whole point of capitalism “but they take risks when they invest, we can’t take away their profits. How will they innovate???”

Mean while they get tax breaks on this “risk”

Privatize profits, socialize the losses, bs is what it is

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mrmalort69 t1_jbh5qpn wrote

4.4b net income means they could pay out $169,000 per employee assuming about 26,000 employees. For fucks sake capitalism is messed up.

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mooseson t1_jbh5y4b wrote

$200million tax benefit must feel nice every year.

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Obvious_Chapter2082 t1_jbhazs9 wrote

Most companies incorporate in Delaware for the ease of it and the legal protection, since they have a chancery court for corps

It can help tax-wise, but only with state taxes. And enough states have combined reporting laws at this point that the benefit is pretty thin anyways

In either case, Nvidia’s state taxes here are a very negligible portion of their tax expense

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Zombery t1_jbhq0so wrote

The fact that their net income is higher than their pre-tax income is truly impressive

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silenceisbetter1 t1_jbhr3jj wrote

Not only that, Executive pay especially in tech has increased every year for a decade on the % of compensation given in equity

There is some merit in my opinion to be willing as the CEO to bet your own earnings on the company and your ability to lead it, and then they profit when their employees do too because as you mentioned equity is almost a given in tech

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[deleted] t1_jbi76vm wrote

I’m getting really tired of this visualization method

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Ericgzg t1_jbmvkgm wrote

The profit is kept by the shareholders and only the shareholders. I own nvidia. If you own any large mutual funds, you own nvidia too. I think you don’t understand the structure of public companies.

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