E58 Nutanix Weekly: Full Frame Rate VDI Video – Nutanix and NVIDIA A16 GPUs eliminate the jaggies!

Sep 13, 2022

E58 – Nutanix Weekly:

Full Frame Rate VDI Video – Nutanix and NVIDIA A16 GPUs eliminate the jaggies!

Summary

The results are in! With NVIDIA’s newest GPUs designed for virtual desktops and applications, you can address a wider variety of use cases than you could ever before. In our independent testing using the NVIDIA® nVector benchmarking tool, we saw that a single A16 GPU could support 64 virtual desktops, each with 2vCPUs and 1GB framebuffer profiles, per node. With two A16 cards installed we were able to scale to 128, albeit we would recommend a high-performance CPU when scaling to 128 desktops. In a minimal Nutanix® configuration of a three node cluster that equates to 384 users per cluster, all having access to 1GB of framebuffer profile!

Host: Harvey Green
Co-host: Jirah Cox
Co-host: Ben Rogers