Relationship Between Hardware and Software Support

NVIDIA vGPU software is supported only on select models of NVIDIA GPUs. The market availability of GPUs that support NVIDIA vGPU software is communicated by OEMs. Each GPU that supports NVIDIA vGPU software comes with an OEM hardware warranty which is typically 3 years. The OEMs set the detailed hardware warranty terms, as well as market introduction and availability.

For information about which NVIDIA GPUs support NVIDIA vGPU software, see NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software Supported GPUs.

Each supported GPU is released with a version of NVIDIA vGPU software that is supported on the GPU. During the lifecycle of the hardware, there are multiple software releases, or “branches”, which provide additional features, bug fixes, and security updates. Typically, the lifecycle of a GPU that supports NVIDIA vGPU software is longer than a single software release branch, such as, NVIDIA vGPU software 7.<x>.