Volta Architecture vGPU Types#
The NVIDIA Volta architecture represents a foundational GPU technology for enterprise AI and HPC workloads. Volta GPUs like the V100 deliver exceptional compute performance and remain widely deployed in production data centers for deep learning training, inference, and scientific computing applications.
Volta supports time-sliced vGPU configurations for GPU sharing in virtualized environments, providing a proven solution for organizations running legacy GPU infrastructure with NVIDIA AI Enterprise.
Volta GPU Architecture#
Physical GPUs per board: 1
The maximum number of vGPUs per board is the product of the maximum number of vGPUs per GPU and the number of physical GPUs per board.
This GPU does not support mixed-size mode.
Intended use cases:
vGPUs with more than 40 GB of framebuffer: Training Workloads
vGPUs with 40 GB of framebuffer: Inference Workloads
Required license edition: NVIDIA AI Enterprise
These vGPU types support a single display with a fixed maximum resolution.
Virtual GPU Type |
Intended Use Case |
Framebuffer (GB) |
Maximum vGPUs per GPU |
Maximum vGPUs per Board |
Maximum Display Resolution [1] |
Virtual Displays per vGPU |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
V100L-16C |
Training Workloads |
16 |
1 |
1 |
3840x2400 |
1 |
V100L-8C |
Training Workloads |
8 |
2 |
2 |
3840x2400 |
1 |
V100L-4C |
Inference Workloads |
4 |
4 |
4 |
3840x2400 |
1 |
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