Platform Support
This documents provides an overview of the GPUs and system platform configurations supported.
GPUs
The following NVIDIA datacenter/enterprise GPUs are supported:
Product |
GPU Architecture |
|---|---|
Datacenter A-series Products |
|
NVIDIA A100 |
NVIDIA Ampere |
NVIDIA A40 |
NVIDIA Ampere |
NVIDIA A30 |
NVIDIA Ampere |
NVIDIA A10 |
NVIDIA Ampere |
Datacenter T-series Products |
|
NVIDIA T4 |
Turing |
Datacenter V-series Products |
|
NVIDIA V100 |
Volta |
Datacenter P-series Products |
|
NVIDIA Tesla P100 |
Pascal |
NVIDIA Tesla P40 |
Pascal |
NVIDIA Tesla P4 |
Pascal |
RTX-Series / T-Series Products |
|
NVIDIA RTX A6000 |
NVIDIA Ampere |
NVIDIA RTX A5000 |
NVIDIA Ampere |
NVIDIA RTX A4000 |
NVIDIA Ampere |
Quadro RTX 8000 |
Turing |
Quadro RTX 6000 |
Turing |
Quadro RTX 5000 |
Turing |
Quadro RTX 4000 |
Turing |
NVIDIA T1000 |
Turing |
NVIDIA T600 |
Turing |
NVIDIA T400 |
Turing |
The following NVIDIA server platforms are supported:
Product |
Architecture |
|---|---|
Datacenter A-series Products |
|
NVIDIA HGX A100 |
A100 and NVSwitch |
Note
Support for DGX A100 with GPU Operator 1.8 will be available in an upcoming patch release.
Note
The GPU Operator only supports platforms using discrete GPUs - Jetson or other embedded products with integrated GPUs are not supported.
Container Platforms
The following Kubernetes platforms are supported:
Kubernetes v1.18+
Red Hat OpenShift 4 using Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) and CRI-O container runtime. See the OpenShift guide for getting started.
Google Cloud Anthos. See the user guide for getting started.
Note
Note that the Kubernetes community supports only the last three minor releases as of v1.17. Older releases may be supported through enterprise distributions of Kubernetes such as Red Hat OpenShift. See the prerequisites for enabling monitoring in Kubernetes releases before v1.16.
The following table includes the support matrix of the GPU Operator releases and supported container platforms.
GPU Operator Release |
Kubernetes |
OpenShift |
Anthos |
|---|---|---|---|
1.8 |
v1.18+ |
4.7, 4.8 and 4.9 |
Supported |
1.7 |
v1.18+ |
4.5, 4.6 and 4.7 |
Supported |
1.6 |
v1.16+ |
4.5, 4.6 and 4.7 |
Supported |
1.5 |
v1.13+ |
4.4.29+, 4.5 and 4.6 |
Supported |
1.4 |
v1.13+ |
4.4.29+, 4.5 and 4.6 |
Supported |
1.3 |
v1.13+ |
4.4.29+, 4.5 and 4.6 |
Supported |
1.2 |
v1.13+ |
Not supported |
Supported |
1.1.7 |
v1.13+ |
4.1, 4.2, 4.3, and 4.4 |
Supported |
1.1 |
v1.13+ |
Not supported |
Not supported |
1.0 |
v1.13+ |
Not supported |
Not supported |
GPU Operator Release |
Kubernetes |
OpenShift |
Anthos |
|---|---|---|---|
1.8 |
v1.18+ |
4.7 and 4.8 |
Not Supported |
1.7 |
v1.18+ |
4.6, 4.7 and 4.8 |
Not Supported |
1.6 |
v1.16+ |
4.6 and 4.7 |
Not Supported |
1.5 |
v1.13+ |
4.6 |
Not Supported |
GPU Operator Release |
Kubernetes |
OpenShift |
Anthos |
|---|---|---|---|
1.8.1 |
v1.21+ |
Not Supported |
Not Supported |
Note
The GPU Operator versions are expressed as x.y.z or <major, minor, patch> and follows the semver terminology.
Only the most recent release of the GPU Operator is maintained through z patch updates. All prior releases of the GPU Operator are deprecated (and unsupported) when a new x.y version of the GPU Operator is released.
The product lifecycle and versioning are subject to change in the future.
Linux distributions
The following Linux distributions are supported:
Ubuntu 18.04.z, 20.04.z LTS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) for use with OpenShift 4.5, 4.6, 4.7 and 4.8
CentOS 7 and 8
The following Linux distributions are supported:
Ubuntu 20.04.z LTS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) for use with OpenShift 4.6, 4.7 and 4.8
The following Linux distributions are supported:
Ubuntu 20.04.z LTS
In addition, the following container management tools are supported:
Helm v3
Docker CE 19.03.z
containerd 1.4+
CRI-O with OpenShift 4 using Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS)
GPU Operator Component Matrix
Release |
NVIDIA Driver |
NVIDIA Driver Manager for K8s |
NVIDIA Container Toolkit |
NVIDIA K8s Device Plugin |
NVIDIA DCGM-Exporter |
Node Feature Discovery |
NVIDIA GPU Feature Discovery |
NVIDIA MIG Manager for K8s |
NVIDIA DCGM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1.8.2 |
0.8.2 |
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1.8.1 |
0.8.2 |
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1.8.0 |
0.8.2 |
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1.7.1 |
N/A |
0.8.2 |
N/A |
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1.7.0 |
N/A |
0.6.0 |
N/A |
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1.6.2 |
N/A |
0.6.0 |
N/A |
N/A |
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1.6.1 |
N/A |
0.6.0 |
N/A |
N/A |
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1.6.0 |
N/A |
0.6.0 |
N/A |
N/A |
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1.5.2 |
N/A |
0.6.0 |
N/A |
N/A |
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1.5.1 |
N/A |
0.6.0 |
N/A |
N/A |
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1.5.0 |
N/A |
0.6.0 |
N/A |
N/A |
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1.4.0 |
N/A |
0.6.0 |
N/A |
N/A |
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1.3.0 |
N/A |
0.6.0 |
N/A |
N/A |
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1.2.0 |
N/A |
0.6.0 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
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1.1.0 |
N/A |
0.5.0 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Note
Driver version could be different with NVIDIA vGPU, as it depends on the driver version downloaded from the NVIDIA vGPU Software Portal.
The GPU Operator is supported on all the R450, R460 and R470 NVIDIA datacenter production drivers. For a list of supported datacenter drivers versions, visit this link.
Supported NVIDIA vGPU Products
NVIDIA vGPU 12.0+ with the following software products
NVIDIA Virtual Compute Server (C-Series)
NVIDIA RTX Virtual Workstation (vWS)
Supported Hypervisors with NVIDIA vGPU
The following Virtualization Platforms are supported. Refer to the NVIDIA vGPU Documentation for more detailed information.
VMware vSphere 7
Red Hat Enterprise Linux KVM
Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)
Supported Hypervisors with NVIDIA AI Enterprise
The following Virtualization Platforms are supported. Refer to the NVIDIA AI Enterprise Documentation for more detailed information.
VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 2+
Deployment Scenarios
The GPU Operator has been validated in the following scenarios:
Bare-metal
GPU passthrough virtualization
NVIDIA vGPU
Note
The GPU Operator deploys the NVIDIA driver as a container. In this environment, running on desktop environments (e.g. workstations with GPUs and display) is not supported.