Option "straddles" for Nvidia's stock are priced for a much-less volatile reaction to earnings than what's been typical for the past three years, but also that a new record close was within range.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the chip maker "made fundamentally different architecture decisions" when it came to its upcoming Vera central processing units.

Revenue in the data center business climbed 75% from a year earlier to $62.3 billion.