Tuesday, February 4th 2025
AMD Reports Fiscal Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2024 Financial Results
AMD today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2024. Fourth quarter revenue was a record $7.7 billion, gross margin was 51%, operating income was $871 million, net income was $482 million and diluted earnings per share was $0.29. On a non-GAAP basis, gross margin was 54%, operating income was a record $2.0 billion, net income was a record $1.8 billion and diluted earnings per share was $1.09.
For the full year 2024, AMD reported record revenue of $25.8 billion, gross margin of 49%, operating income of $1.9 billion, net income of $1.6 billion, and diluted earnings per share of $1.00. On a non-GAAP basis, gross margin was a record 53%, operating income was $6.1 billion, net income was $5.4 billion and diluted earnings per share was $3.31.
Segment Summary
Data Center segment revenue in the quarter was a record $3.9 billion, up 69% year-over-year primarily driven by the strong ramp of AMD Instinct GPU shipments and growth in AMD EPYC CPU sales.
AMD continues expanding its partnerships to deliver highly performant AI infrastructure at scale:
AMD expanded its broad consumer and commercial AI PC portfolio:
AMD's outlook statements are based on current expectations. The following statements are forward-looking and actual results could differ materially depending on market conditions and the factors set forth under "Cautionary Statement" below.
For the first quarter of 2025, AMD expects revenue to be approximately $7.1 billion, plus or minus $300 million. At the mid-point of the revenue range, this represents year-over-year growth of approximately 30% and a sequential decline of approximately 7%. Non-GAAP gross margin is expected to be approximately 54%.
Details from slide deck follows.
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For the full year 2024, AMD reported record revenue of $25.8 billion, gross margin of 49%, operating income of $1.9 billion, net income of $1.6 billion, and diluted earnings per share of $1.00. On a non-GAAP basis, gross margin was a record 53%, operating income was $6.1 billion, net income was $5.4 billion and diluted earnings per share was $3.31.
"2024 was a transformative year for AMD as we delivered record annual revenue and strong earnings growth," said AMD Chair and CEO Dr. Lisa Su. "Data Center segment annual revenue nearly doubled as EPYC processor adoption accelerated and we delivered more than $5 billion of AMD Instinct accelerator revenue. Looking into 2025, we see clear opportunities for continued growth based on the strength of our product portfolio and growing demand for high-performance and adaptive computing.""We closed 2024 with a strong fourth quarter, delivering record revenue up 24% year-over-year, and accelerated earnings expansion while investing aggressively in AI and innovation to position us for long-term growth and value creation," said AMD EVP, CFO and Treasurer Jean Hu.
Segment Summary
Data Center segment revenue in the quarter was a record $3.9 billion, up 69% year-over-year primarily driven by the strong ramp of AMD Instinct GPU shipments and growth in AMD EPYC CPU sales.
- For 2024, Data Center segment revenue was a record $12.6 billion, an increase of 94% compared to the prior year, driven by growth in both AMD Instinct and EPYC processors.
- For 2024, Client segment revenue was a record $7.1 billion, up 52% compared to the prior year, due to strong demand for AMD Ryzen processors in desktop and mobile.
- For 2024, Gaming segment revenue was $2.6 billion, down 58% compared to the prior year, primarily due to a decrease in semi-custom revenue.
- For 2024, Embedded segment revenue was $3.6 billion, down 33% from the prior year, primarily due to customers normalizing their inventory levels.
AMD continues expanding its partnerships to deliver highly performant AI infrastructure at scale:
- IBM announced plans to deploy AMD Instinct MI300X accelerators to power generative AI and HPC applications on IBM Cloud.
- Vultr and AMD announced a strategic collaboration to leverage AMD Instinct MI300X accelerators and AMD ROCm open software to power Vultr's cloud infrastructure for enterprise AI development and deployment.
- Aleph Alpha announced that it will leverage AMD Instinct MI300 Series accelerators and ROCm software to enable its tokenizer-free LLM architecture, a new approach to generative AI that aims to simplify the development of sovereign AI solutions for governments and enterprises.
- Fujitsu and AMD announced a strategic partnership to develop more sustainable computing infrastructure to accelerate open source AI.
- AMD expanded strategic investments to advance the AI ecosystem and solutions, including investments in LiquidAI, Vultr and Absci.
- AMD released ROCm 6.3 with numerous performance enhancements enabling faster inferencing on AMD Instinct accelerators as well as additional compiler tools and libraries.
- AMD shared an update on its 2025 plans for the ROCm software stack to enable easier adoption of and improved out of box support for both inferencing and training applications.
AMD expanded its broad consumer and commercial AI PC portfolio:
- New AMD Ryzen AI Max and Ryzen AI Max PRO Series processors deliver workstation-level performance and next-gen AI performance for gaming, content creation and complex AI-accelerated workloads.
- Expanded Ryzen AI 300 and Ryzen AI 300 PRO Series processors bring premium AI capabilities to mainstream and entry-level notebooks, as well as enhanced security, manageability and support for Microsoft Copilot+ experiences tailored for business users.
- Additional Ryzen 200 and Ryzen 200 PRO Series processors offer incredible AI experiences, performance and battery life for everyday users and professionals.
- More than 150 Ryzen AI platforms are expected to be available from leading OEMs this year.
- The El Capitan supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory became the second AMD supercomputer to surpass the exascale barrier, placing #1 on the latest Top500 list.
- The Hunter supercomputer at the High-Performance Computing Center of the University of Stuttgart (HLRS), powered by AMD Instinct MI300A APUs, began service, delivering HPC and AI resources for scientists, researchers, industry and the public sector.
- AMD EPYC processors and AMD Instinct accelerators power many new supercomputing projects and AI deployments, including the Eni HPC 6 system, the University of Paderborn's latest supercomputer and the Sigma2 AS system which is slated to be the fastest system in Norway.
- At CES 2025, AMD announced new AMD Ryzen 9000X3D, Ryzen Z2 and Ryzen 9000HX processors, extending its leadership in desktop, mobile and handheld gaming.
- AMD shared the latest version of AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition, 24.9.1, continuing to enhance gaming experiences with AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2 and AMD HYPR-RX.
- New AMD Versal Gen 2 portfolio with next-generation interface and memory technologies for data-intensive applications in the data center, communications, test and measurement and aerospace and defense markets.
- AMD Versal RF Series adaptive SoCs, combining high-resolution radio frequency data converters, dedicated DSP hard IP, AI engines and programmable logic in a single chip.
- Vodafone and AMD announced they are collaborating on mobile base station silicon chip designs to enable higher-capacity AI and digital services.
AMD's outlook statements are based on current expectations. The following statements are forward-looking and actual results could differ materially depending on market conditions and the factors set forth under "Cautionary Statement" below.
For the first quarter of 2025, AMD expects revenue to be approximately $7.1 billion, plus or minus $300 million. At the mid-point of the revenue range, this represents year-over-year growth of approximately 30% and a sequential decline of approximately 7%. Non-GAAP gross margin is expected to be approximately 54%.
Details from slide deck follows.
34 Comments on AMD Reports Fiscal Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2024 Financial Results
I'm starting to think if you're somehow related to, or are, the owner of userbenchmark? Genuinely great website btw. Just curious.
AMD has had a string of lower and lower revenues in Gaming.
Nvidia, on the other hand, shows growth, although small - even though sales figures where we could check them - Mindfactory figures - have been occasionally trailing AMD! But Nvidia is smart, it doesn't even have a Gaming sector any more - it's "Gaming and AI PC", so it's not that illegal for them to be shifting revenue from server AI to prop up Gaming, to avoid criticism AMD is having for having it's earning just in a single sector.
The whole PC gaming sector is struggling, and I don't think all the flop game releases from big studios are just anti-woke campaigns, there is less and less money being spent. And the new gaming card generation will not reverse the trend, it's a shitshow from Nvidia, and nobody is expecting much from AMD.
This is an old graph, from September 2024 with older data, but the trend is obvious.
In the end, they are making money, unlike before were they weren't and hurt every single division due to the lack of funds.
So in the longer run, it will benefits us the gamers and the few smart consumers that can see beyond the Ngreedia bullshit.
45-55% are quite healthy margins.
Have you heard of fiduciary duty to shareholders? Wall Street is often capricious... like a small child wanting immediate gratification.
Maybe someone will come along and rescue this turd from AMD’s mismanagement. Hopefully.
- Jean Hu
This, and Nvidia's merging of "Gaming and AI PC" marks an end if an era, I think - up until now we could judge how the Gaming sectors of companies were doing, asses how successful product launches were etc... All this is gone now, buried under unrelated stuff, and companies will be able to spin their stories for PR and shareholders as they see fit. Not that they had to be truthful until now, breaking the laws regarding that is comically cheap for them.
Regarding upscaling and frame generation technologies, AMD MUST team up with Intel and merge FSR and XeSS technologies into a single technology (with the name RXeSS for example) that must be exactly the same for both companies' GPUs. This way, there would be a huge number of games compatible with this combined technology from both companies. Only with this union will AMD and Intel be able to gain GPU market share from Nvidia.
In the embedded segment, I think it would be very good for AMD if it started developing ARM SoCs, which have a huge market, from the automotive market to the smartphone and smart TV market, before it completely loses the ARM market to other companies.
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