NVIDIA Test Environment#

Table 9 Server Configuration for Benchmarking Professional Graphics Workloads#

Property

Value

Server CPU

Intel Xeon Platinum 8570

Hypervisor software

VMWare ESXi 9.0

VM vCPUs

8 vCPUs

VM Memory

16 GB

vGPU Driver Version

NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software 20.0

vGPU Software Edition

RTX vWS

Scheduling mode

Best Effort

vSync

Default

Frame Rate Limiter

Disabled

Number of Screens

1

VM guest OS

Windows 11

GPU virtualization software

NVIDIA RTX vWS

Virtual GPU Manager driver version

595.58.02

Guest driver version

595.97

Resolution

3840x2160

vGPU profiles

RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell DC-96Q, RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell DC-48Q, RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell DC-2-48Q, RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell DC-32Q, L4-24Q, A10-24Q, L40S-48Q, A40-48Q

Workload

SPECviewperf 15

Table 10 Server Configuration for Measuring the Effect of GPU Sharing on Overall Throughput#

Property

Value

Server CPU

Intel Xeon Platinum 8570

Hypervisor software

VMware ESXi 9.0

VM vCPUs

8 vCPUs

VM Memory

16 GB

vGPU Driver Version

NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software 20.0

vGPU Software Edition

RTX vWS

Scheduling mode

Best Effort

vSync

Default

Frame Rate Limiter

Disabled

Number of Screens

1

VM guest OS

Windows 11

GPU virtualization software

NVIDIA RTX vWS

Virtual GPU Manager driver version

595.58.02

Guest driver version

595.97

Resolution

3840x2160

vGPU profiles

RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell DC-96Q, RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell DC-4-48Q, RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell DC-4-24Q

Workload

SPECviewperf 15