Advanced Offload Capabilities for the Most Demanding Applications
NVIDIA® Mellanox® ConnectX®-5 adapters offer advanced hardware offloads to reduce CPU resource consumption and drive extremely high packet rates and throughput. This boosts data center infrastructure efficiency and provides the highest performance and most flexible solution for Web 2.0, Cloud, Data Analytics and Storage platforms.
ConnectX-5 Ethernet adapter cards provide a high performance and flexible solution that deliver a range of innovative offloads and accelerators in hardware for increased efficiency for data center network and storage connectivity. ConnectX-5 adapter cards bring advanced Open vSwitch offloads to telecommunications and cloud service providers and enterprise data centers to drive extremely high packet rates and throughput, thus boosting data center infrastructure efficiency.
PORT SPEEDS
2x100/1x100Gb/s
MESSAGE RATE (DPDK)
148 million msgs/sec
PCIe LANES
x16 Gen2/Gen3
ENCRYPTION
N/A
The NVIDIA RoCE technology encapsulates packet transport over Ethernet and lowers CPU load to enable a high bandwidth and low latency network infrastructure for networking and storage-intensive applications.
The groundbreaking NVIDIA ASAP² technology delivers innovative SR-IOV and VirtIO acceleration by offloading Open vSwitch datapath from the host’s CPU to the adapter to enable extreme performance and scalability.
ConnectX adapters leverage SR-IOV to separate access to physical resources and functions in virtualized environments. This diminishes I/O overhead and allows adapters to maintain near non-virtualized performance.
ConnectX-5 Product Brief
VPI Socket Direct Product Brief (supports Ethernet)
ConnectX-5 & ConnectX-5 Ex User Manual
ConnectX-5 OCP Cards User Manual
ConnectX-5 Ethernet Adapter Cards for OCP 3.0 User Manual
SR-IOV vs. VirtIO; Comparison of two OVS/vRouter Acceleration Techniques
Maximizing Server Performance with Mellanox Socket Directâ„¢ Adapter
Firmware Download for ConnectX-5 PCI Express Adapter Cards
Firmware Tools (MFT)
Software Drivers
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