What is Nvidia Virtual GPU?
NVIDIA virtual GPU (vGPU) technology leverages the power of NVIDIA GPUs and NVIDIA virtual GPU software products to accelerate every virtual workflow, from AI to virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). By enabling GPU performance for every virtual machine (VM), vGPU technology empowers users to work more efficiently and productively In a VDI environment powered by NVIDIA virtual GPU, the NVIDIA virtual GPU software is installed at the virtualization layer along with the hypervisor. The NVIDIA virtual GPU software creates virtual GPUs that allow every VM to share a physical GPU installed on the server or allocate multiple GPUs to a single VM to power the most demanding workloads. The NVIDIA virtualization software includes a driver for every VM, such as the powerful Quadro driver within NVIDIA Quadro Virtual Data Center Workstation (Quadro vDWS). By offloading work that was typically done by the CPU to the GPU, the user experiences a much better experience, and demanding engineering and creative applications can be supported in a virtualized and cloud environment
Highlights
- Enables GPU performance for every virtual machine (VM)
- Allows VMs to share a physical GPU or allocate multiple GPUs to a single VM
- Includes NVIDIA virtual GPU software drivers for each VM, such as the Quadro driver
- Offloads work from the CPU to the GPU, improving user experience and supporting demanding applications in virtualized and cloud environments