GPUs EUC Datacenter comparison & reviews

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Pros
  • + 1st Hardware based virtualized GPU solution, using SR-IOV FLR (Function Level Reset) preventing rogue guest from crashing the entire system.
  • + Predictable performance
  • + The GPU is designed for high performance graphical environments.
  • + Good performance in single user scenario, and multi-user XenApp scenario.
  • + Proven technology in consumer market.
Cons
  • - Documentation and information is dated.
  • - Slow adoption of (new) OEMs, Guest OS and Virtual Infrastructure platforms.
  • - No community and limited visibility in customer adoption.
  • - Solution (Hardware + Software) is perceived as expensive.
  • - Limited use-case, good performance in single user scenario, Limited server/OEM support.
  • - Limited Virtual Client Computing support.
  • - No community, limited information.
  • - Dated APU (2015)
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Content creator
This content is created by TeamRGE members: Patrick van den Born, Jits Langedijk and Ruben Spruijt
This content is created by TeamRGE members: Patrick van den Born, Jits Langedijk and Ruben Spruijt
This content is created by TeamRGE members: Patrick van den Born, Jits Langedijk and Ruben Spruijt
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Vendor description
NVIDIA is an American technology company based in Santa Clara, California. It delivers the engines for todays Artificial Technology. NVIDIA designs graphics processing units (GPUs) for a variety of solutions, e.g. AI, Gaming, Cryptocurrency, and professional markets, as well as system on a chip units (SoCs) for the mobile computing and automotive market. Since 2014 NVIDIA has shifted to become a platform company focused on five markets – AI, Gaming, Professional Visualization, Datacenters and Automotive. 
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Product overview
The AMD FirePro family of hardware-virtualized GPUs with Multiuser GPU (MxGPU) technology delivers a simple, secure and cost effective solution for high performance virtual desktops and workstations.
All the features and functions are based on NVIDIA GRID 5.0. NVIDIA GRID extends the power of GPU technology to deliver virtual applications, desktops and workstations for every user.
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Community Specialist
TeamRGE (Patrick, Jits, Ruben)
TeamRGE (Patrick, Jits, Ruben)
TeamRGE (Patrick, Jits, Ruben)
  Support Status  
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Product is supported (Not End Of Life )
Yes
Yes
Yes
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Long-term branch maintenance
No
Yes
No
  Maturity  
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Introduction date
42401
1-8-2015
42186
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Proven Technology
Yes
Yes
Yes
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Public enterprise references in Europe
No
URL
No
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Public enterprise references in US
No
URL
No
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Large community resource around GPU Virtualization - Datacenter
No
Yes
No
  Solution Pricing  
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Hardware
Contact vendor/OEM
Contact vendor/OEM
Contact vendor/OEM
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Software
No
Contact vendor/OEM
No
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Support
N/A
Contact vendor/OEM
N/A
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Education pricing
N/A
Yes
N/A
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MSP pricing
N/A
Yes
N/A
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Named User
N/A
No
N/A
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Concurrent User
N/A
Yes
N/A
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VM based
N/A
No
N/A
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Host based
N/A
No
N/A
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GPU board based
N/A
No
N/A
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Free Trial software
Yes
Yes
N/A
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  Product Specification  
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GPU Model
Tonga - GCN 3.0
GM204 - Maxwell
Broadwell Gt3e
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GPUs per board
2
2
N/A
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Transistors
5,000 Million
5200 million
189 million
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Total board power (W)
265 W
300 W
15W
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GPU Clock - Base (MHz)
1050 MHz
899 MHz
800MHz
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GPU Clock - Idle (MHz)
N/A
405 MHz
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NVIDIA CUDA cores
N/A
4096 (2048 per GPU)
N/A
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Max. users
32
32
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PCI Express interface
PCI Express Gen3 x16 system interface
PCI Express Gen3 x16 system interface. Lane and polarity reversal supported
N/A
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Board design
Dual Slot
Dual Slot
N/A
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Power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1 x CPU 8-pin auxiliary power connector, 1 x  2-pin power brake header
N/A
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Thermal Solution
Passive Cooling
Active/Passive Cooling
N/A
  Memory Specifications  
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Memory Clocks - Performance (MHz)
1250 MHz
2505 MHz
System shared
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Memory Clocks - Idle (MHz)
324 MHz
System shared
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Memory Size
8 GB
16 GB (8 GB per GPU)
System shared
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Memory I/O
256-bit
256-bit ×2
System shared
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Memory configuration
GDDR5 - 16GB (2 x 8GB)
32 pcs 256M × 16 GDDR5 
System shared
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Memory bandwidth
160 GB/s
160 GB/s ×4
System shared
  Thermal Specifications  
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GPU shutdown temperature (°C)
91 °C
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GPU slowdown temperature (°C)
88 °C
  Performance  
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Pixel Fill rate
33.6 (GPixels/s
119 GPixels/s
6.000 Gpixel/s
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Texture Fill rate
117.6 (GPixels/s
238.1 GTexel/s
48 Gtexel/s
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SPFP Performance
3,763 GFLOPS x2 (7.54)
7.6 TFLOPS
768.0 GFLOPS
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Performance per W
N/A
25.4 GFLOPS/W
  Encoders  
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H.264 - supported
Yes
Yes
Yes
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H.264 - amount per interface board
3594 (1792 x 2)
36
384
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H.265 - supported
No
Yes
No
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H.265 - amount per interface board
No
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N/A
  Decoders  
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H.264 - amount per interface board
No
?
N/A
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H.265 - amount per interface board
No
no
N/A
  Server vendor support  
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Hardware Compatibility List
No
Yes
No
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  Hypervisor support  
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Microsoft Hyper-V
Yes
Yes
Yes
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Citrix XenServer
No
Yes
Yes
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Nutanix AHV
No
Yes
No
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KVM
No
Yes
No
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Huawei UVP
No
Yes
No
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VMware ESX
Yes
Yes
Yes
  Monitoring GPU performance  
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Integration with Citrix XenCenter
No
Yes
No
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integration with VMware vCenter
Yes
No
No
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Integration with Nutanix PRISM
No
Yes
No
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Public SDK/API available
No
Yes
No
  Virtual Client Computing  
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Citrix XenDesktop
No
Yes
Yes
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Citrix XenApp
Yes
Yes
Yes
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Microsoft RDSH
Yes
Yes
No
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Microsoft RDVH
Yes
Yes
No
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VMware Horizon
Yes
Yes
Yes
  Guest OS  
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Microsoft Windows 7
Yes
Yes
Yes
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Microsoft Windows 8
No
Yes
Yes
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Microsoft Windows 10 - 1511
Yes
Yes
Yes
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Microsoft Windows 10 - 1607
Yes
Yes
Yes
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Microsoft Windows 10 - 1703
Yes
Yes
Yes
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Windows Server 2012R2
Yes
Yes
Yes
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Windows Server 2016
Yes
Yes
Yes
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Linux - Ubuntu
No
Yes
No
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Linux - SLED/SLES
No
Yes
No
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Linux - Red Hat Enterprise
No
Yes
No
  API support  
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DirectX 12 (2015)
Yes
Yes
No
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DirectX 11.2 (2013)
Yes
Yes
Yes
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DirectX 11.1 (2012)
Yes
Yes
Yes
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DirectX 10 or lower
Yes
Yes
Yes
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OpenGL 4.6 (2017)
Yes
Yes
No
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OpenGL 4.5 (2014)
Yes
Yes
No
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OpenGL 4.4 (2013)
Yes
Yes
Yes
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OpenGL 4.3 (2012)
Yes
Yes
Yes
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OpenGL 4.2 or lower
Yes
Yes
Yes
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OpenCL 2.0
Yes
No
Yes
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Shader Model 5.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
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Vulkan 1.0
No
Yes
No
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CUDA
No
Yes
N/A
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OpenACC
Yes
Yes
Yes
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  GPU functions  
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Pass-Through support
Yes
Yes
Yes
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BareMetal Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
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Dedicated GPU (cores)
Yes
Yes
No
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Dedicated GPU (Frame buffer)
Yes
Yes
No
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Shared GPU (GPU cores)
No
Yes
Yes
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Max. Frame buffer (vRAM) per VM
3840 MB
8 GB
N/A
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Min Frame buffer (vRAM) per VM
480 MB
512 MB
N/A
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Graphics Mode
Yes
Yes
Yes
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Compute mode
No
Yes
No
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Max. density per GPU
16
16
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Max. density per GPU board
32
32
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Anti-aliasing
Yes
  Display  
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Max. amount of virtual displays
4
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Max. resolution per display
4096x2160 (4K DCI)
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Max. vGPUs per board
32
32
N/A
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Max. vGPUs per GPU
16
16
N/A
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  Use-case  
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Office Workers (LOB, Office, browsers)
Yes
Yes
Yes
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Power User - Professional Graphics
Yes
Yes
Yes
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Power User - Designer
No
Yes
No
  Certification  
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Adobe
No
Yes
No
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Ansys
No
Yes
No
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Autodesk
No
Yes
No
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Bently
No
Yes
No
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ESRI
No
Yes
No
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HIS
No
Yes
No
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PTC
No
Yes
No
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Siemens PLM
No
Yes
No
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Solidworks
No
Yes
No
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Synerscope
No
Yes
No
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Quadro support
N/A
Yes
N/A

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