Nvidia Ethernet Network Interface Cards (NICs) provide the highest data center performance for hyperscale, public and private clouds, storage, machine learning, artificial intelligence, big data and telco platforms. Gigabit Ethernet NICs provide industry-leading connectivity for power-managed server and storage applications. ConnectX enables high bandwidth combined with extremely low latency for various applications and systems. This leads to faster access and real-time responses.
Providing up to four ports of connectivity and 400Gb/s of throughput, the NVIDIA ConnectX-7 SmartNIC provides hardware-accelerated networking, storage, security, and manageability services at data center scale for cloud, telecommunications, AI, and enterprise workloads. ConnectX-7 empowers agile and high-performance networking solutions with features such as Accelerated Switching and Packet Processing (ASAP2), advanced RoCE, GPUDirect Storage, and in-line hardware acceleration for Transport Layer Security (TLS), IP Security (IPsec), and MAC Security (MACsec) encryption and decryption.
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ConnectX-7 | MCX75310AAS-HEAT | MCX75310AAS-NEAT | MCX753436MC-HEAB MCX753436MS-HEAB MCX755106AC-HEAT MCX755106AS-HEAT | MCX715105AS-WEAT | MCX755106AS-HEAT MCX755106AC-HEAT | MCX75310AAC-NEAT MCX75343AMC-NEAC MCX75343AMS-NEAC |
ASIC & PCI Dev ID | ConnectX®-7 | |||||
Speed | 200GbE / NDR200 | 400GbE / NDR | 200GbE / NDR200 | 400GbE / NDR | 200GbE / NDR200 | 400GbE / NDR |
Technology | VPI*3 | VPI*2 | VPI | VPI | VPI | VPI |
Ports | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Connectors | QSFP | QSFP | QSFP112 | OSFP112 | OSFP112 | OSFP |
PCIe | PCIe 5.0 x16 | PCIe 5.0 x16 | PCIe 5.0 x16 | PCIe 5.0 x16 | PCIe 5.0 x16 | PCIe 5.0 x16 |
Secure Boot | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Crypto | - | - | (✔)*1 | - | (✔)*1 | (✔)*1 |
Form Factor | HHHL | HHHL | MCX753436: SFF MCX755106: HHHL | HHHL | HHHL | MCX75310: HHHL MCX75343: SFF |
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ConnectX-7 | MCX713104AC-ADAT MCX713104AS-ADAT | MCX713114TC-GEAT | MCX75510AAS-HEAT | MCX753436MC-HEAB MCX753436MS-HEAB | MCX75343AMC-NEAC MCX75343AMS-NEAC |
ASIC & PCI Dev ID | ConnectX®-7 | ||||
Speed | 50/25GbE | 50/25GbE | NDR200 | 200GbE / NDR200/HDR | 400GbE / NDR |
Technology | Ethernet | Ethernet | IB | VPI | VPI |
Ports | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Connectors | SFP56 | SFP56 | OSFP | QSFP112 | OSFP |
PCIe | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 5.0 x16 | PCIe 5.0 x16 | PCIe 5.0 x16 |
Secure Boot | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Crypto | (✔)*1 | ✔ | - | (✔)*1 | (✔)*1 |
Form Factor | HHHL | FHHL | HHHL | SFF | TSFF |
ConnectX-6 Dx offers the world's most advanced cloud SmartNIC up to 200 Gbit/s Ethernet connectivity that supports 50 Gbit/s PAM4 SerDes technology and PCIe 4.0 Host connectivity. It offers innovative hardware offload engines, IPsec and TLS inline data-in-motion encryption in various form factors, including PCIe, OCP 2.0 and OCP 3.0 compatible low-profile cards with advanced options for Nvidia Multi-Host® and Nvidia Socket Direct® configurations.
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ConnectX-6 Dx | MCX623105AN-VDAT*1 MCX623105AN-CDAT | MCX623106AN-CDAT MCX623106AS-CDAT MCX623106AC-CDAT MCX623106TC-CDAT MCX623106GC-CDAT | MCX623105AC-VDAT | MCX621202AC-ADAT MCX621202AS-ADAT | MCX623436MN-CDAB MCX623436MS-CDAB | |||
ASIC & PCI Dev ID | ConnectX®-6 Dx | |||||||
Speed | 200GbE | 100GbE | 100GbE | 25GbE | 100GbE | |||
Technology | Ethernet | Ethernet | Ethernet | Ethernet | Ethernet | |||
Ports | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||
Connectors | QSFP56 | QSFP56 | QSFP56 | SFP28 | SFP56 | |||
PCI | PCIe 4.0 | PCIe 4.0 | PCIe 4.0 | PCIe 4.0 | PCIe 4.0 | |||
Lanes | x16 | x16 | x16 | x8 | x8/(x16) | |||
Crypto | only with MCX623105AC | only with MCX623106AC MCX623106TC MCX623106GC | - | only with MCX621202AC | - | |||
Form Factor | PCIe | PCIe | PCIe | PCIe | PCIe |
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ConnectX-6 Dx | MCX623102AS-ADAT MCX623432AS-ADAB | MCX623430MS-CDAB | MCX623436AN-CDAB MCX623436AC-CDAB | MCX623435AN-VDAB MCX623435AC-VDAB |
ASIC & PCI Dev ID | ConnectX®-6 Dx | |||
Speed | 25GbE | 100GbE | 100GbE | 100GbE |
Technology | Ethernet | Ethernet | Ethernet | Ethernet |
Ports | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Connectors | SFP28 | DSFP | QSFP56 | QSFP56 |
PCI | PCIe 4.0 | PCIe 4.0 | PCIe 4.0 | PCIe 4.0 |
Lanes | x16 | x16 | x16 | x16 |
Crypto | - | - | only with MCX623436AC | only with MCX623435AC |
Form Factor | PCIe | PCIe | OCP 3.0 SMALL | OCP 3.0 SMALL |
ConnectX-6 Lx is a highly secure and efficient Ethernet Smart Network Interface Controller (SmartNIC) with 25/50 Gbit/s, which provides world class features for enterprise, cloud, edge and telecommunications workloads. It is also the most cost-effective, most secure and agile SmartNIC in the industry and offers up to two ports with 25 GbE or a single port with 50 GbE connectivity.
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ConnectX-6 Lx | MCX631102AC-ADAT MCX631102AN-ADAT MCX631102AS-ADAT | MCX631432AN-ADAB MCX631432AC-ADAB |
ASIC & PCI Dev ID | ConnectX®-6 Lx | |
Geschwindigkeit | 25GbE | 25GbE |
Technology | Ethernet | Ethernet |
Ports | 2 | 2 |
Anschlüsse | SFP28 | SFP28 |
PCI | PCIe 4.0 | PCIe 4.0 |
Lanes | x8 | x8 |
Crypto | only with MCX631102AC | only with MCX631432AC |
Form Factor | PCIe HHHL | OCP 3.0 Small |
ConnectX-6 with Virtual Protocol Interconnect® (VPI) supports two ports of 200Gb/s InfiniBand and Ethernet connectivity, sub-600 nanosecond latency, and 200 million messages per second, providing the highest performance and most flexible solution for the most demanding applications and markets. Delivering one of the highest throughput and message rate in the industry with 200Gb/s HDR InfiniBand, 100Gb/s HDR100 InfiniBand and 200Gb/s Ethernet speeds it is the perfect product to lead HPC data centers toward Exascale levels of performance and scalability. Supported speeds are HDR, HDR100, EDR, FDR, QDR, DDR and SDR InfiniBand as well as 200, 100, 50, 40, 25, and 10Gb/s Ethernet. All card speeds are backwards compatible.
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ConnectX-6 | MCX653436A-HDAB*1 | MCX653105A-HDAT*1 | MCX653106A-HDAT*1 |
ASIC & PCI Dev ID | ConnectX®-6 | ||
Technology | VPI | VPI | VPI |
Speed | HDR/200GbE | HDR/200GbE | HDR/200GbE |
Ports | 2 | 1 | 2 |
Connectors | QSFP56 | QSFP56 | QSFP56 |
PCI | PCIe 4.0 | PCIe 4.0 | PCIe 4.0 |
Lanes | x16 | x16 | x16 |
Crypto | - | - | - |
Form Factor | PCIe Standup. w/o Bracket: 167.65mm x 8.90mm. Tall bracket |
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ConnectX-6 | MCX651105A-EDAT | MCX653105A-ECAT | MCX653106A-ECAT |
ASIC & PCI Dev ID | ConnectX®-6 | ||
Technology | VPI | VPI | VPI |
Speed | HDR100/EDR IB/100GbE | HDR100/EDR IB/100GbE | HDR100/EDR IB/100GbE |
Ports | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Connectors | QSFP56 | QSFP56 | QSFP56 |
PCI | PCIe 4.0 | PCIe 3.0/4.0 | PCIe 3.0/4.0 |
Lanes | x8 | x16 | x16 |
Crypto | - | - | - |
Form Factor | PCIe Standup. w/o Bracket: 167.65mm x 8.90mm. Tall bracket |