AMD didn’t have the best financial news to report this quarter, as it went through another third quarter loss. However, its graphics arm did have some good news to cheer up their board members. Revealed at the same time as the financial was that AMD has shipped over 25 million DirectX11-capable ATI GPUs since introduced in September last year.

The added competition from Nvidia’s massive Fermi-based products bombardment may have played a part in ATI’s revenue down 11 percent over the previous quarter, but things are still up 33 percent year-over-year. The ATI division’s operating income was $1 million, compared with $33 million in Q2-10 and $2 million in Q3-09. At least it’s positive, compared to their other divisions.

AMD will hope to increase that number of DirectX 11 Radeon HD GPUs sold, as it will be unveiling new products this week. They’ll very much depend on this new HD6000-series lineup to push forward, as their mobile processor division is getting a hard blow from Intel’s dual-core Atom. Anyway, long lived ATI! Thou shalt be forever remembered as the dark horse whom prevailed!