Firmware Compatible Products
These are the release notes for the NVIDIA® ConnectX®-8 SuperNIC firmware. ConnectX®-8 supports the following protocols:
- InfiniBand - XDR2, NDR2, HDR2, EDR, SDR
- Ethernet - 400GAUI4 C2M, 200GAUI2 C2M, 100GAUI1 C2M, 100GAUI1_SFE C2M, 400GAUI4 CR43, 200GAUI2 CR23, 200GAUI4 CR43, 100GAUI1 CR11, 100GAUI1_SFE CR11, 100GAUI2 CR21, CAUI4 CR43, 50GAUI1 CR13, 50GAUI2_RS_NS CR23, 50GAUI2_FC_NS CR23, 25GAUI1_RS C2M3, 25GAUI1_FC C2M3, 25GAUI1 C2M3
- PCI Express Gen6, supporting backwards compatibility for v5.0, v4.0, v3.0, v2.0 and v1.1
1. Speed that supports both NRZ and PAM4 modes in Force mode and Auto-Negotiation mode.
2. Speed that supports PAM4 mode only.
3. Force with precoding ON.
When connecting an NVIDIA-to-NVIDIA adapter card in ETH PAM4 speeds, Auto-Neg should always be enabled.
Some of the Ethernet protocol speeds listed above are not supported by the firmware.. For more information, see Known Issues 4031430.
Refer to the hardware documentation for the list of supported devices.
Driver Software, Tools and Switch Firmware
The following are the drivers’ software, tools, switch/HCA firmware versions tested that you can upgrade from or downgrade to when using this firmware version:
| Supported Version | |
| ConnectX-8 Firmware | 40.48.1000 / 40.47.1088 / 40.47.1026 |
| DOCA-HOST | 3.3.0 / 3.2.1 Note: For the list of the supported Operating Systems, please refer to the driver's Release Notes. |
| WinOF-2 | 26.1.50000 / 25.10.51000 / 25.10.50020 Note: For the list of the supported Operating Systems, please refer to the driver's Release Notes. |
| MFT | 4.35.0-159 / 4.34.1-10 / 4.34.0-145 Note: For the list of the supported Operating Systems, please refer to the driver's Release Notes. |
| FlexBoot | 3.9.101 |
| UEFI | 14.41.13 |
| MLNX-OS | 3.12.6000 onwards |
| Quantum-2 FW | 31.2016.2054 onwards |
| NVOS | 25.02.6000 onwards |
| Quantum-3 FW (part of NVOS) | 35.2016.2080 onwards |