It offers up to two 100Gb/s Ethernet connections and features OCP Spec 3.0 compliant adapter cards with advanced acceleration and offload capabilities. These advanced capabilities free up valuable CPU cores for other tasks while increasing data centre performance, scalability, and efficiency. NVIDIA ConnectX-6 Dx is a highly secure and advanced smart network interface card (SmartNIC) designed to accelerate mission-critical data centre applications, including security, virtualisation, SDN/NFV, big data, machine learning, and storage.
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Product Highlights
NVIDIA MCX623436AN-CDAB ConnectX®-6 Dx EN Network Interface Card, 100GbE Dual-Port QSFP56, OCP3.0, PCIe4.0 x 16, Thumbscrew (Pull Tab) Bracket
Product Spotlights
RoCE v1/v2
Zero Touch RoCE, no ECN, no PFC
RoCE over overlay networks
IPsec over RoCE
Selective repeat Programmable congestion control interface
GPUDirect®
Dynamically connected transport (DCT)
Burst buffer offload
TCP/UDP/IP stateless offload
LSO, LRO, checksum offload
Receive Side Scaling (RSS) also on encapsulated packet
Transmit Side Scaling (TSS)
VLAN and MPLS tag insertion/stripping
Receive flow steering
NVMe over Fabric offloads for target
Storage protocols, iSER, NFSoRDMA, SMB Direct, NVMe-oF, and more
T-10 Dif/Signature Handover
By partnering with NVIDIA®, FS provides our global customers with optimized product supply, high-quality products, and superior technical support, meeting evolving needs.
OCP 3.0 offers more board space, thermal capacity, interfaces, and management, along with a new mating technique that simplifies FRU installation and reduces downtime.
It supports SR-IOV and VirtIO hardware virtualisation, optimising performance, offloading cloud networking workloads, freeing CPU cores, and reducing total cost of ownership.
Through comprehensive testing procedures, we ensure seamless compatibility with mainstream servers, guaranteeing the long-term reliability and stability of the entyre network infrastructure.
Adapter Type | OCP 3.0 | PCle NIC | PCle NIC | PCle NIC | PCle NIC | PCle NIC |
Data Rate | 100GbE | 100GbE | 100GbE/HDR100/EDR | 100GbE | 100GbE/HDR100/EDR | 100GbE |
Interface Type | QSFP56 | QSFP56 | QSFP56 | QSFP28 | QSFP56 | QSFP28 |
Ports | Dual | Dual | Dual | Dual | Single | Single |
Host Interface | PCIe 4.0x 16 | PCIe 4.0x 16 | PCIe 4.0x 16 | PCIe 3.0x 16 | PCIe 4.0x 16 | PCIe 3.0x 16 |
Technology | Ethernet | Ethernet | VPI | Ethernet | VPI | Ethernet |
Secure Boot | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Crypto | - | - | - | - | - | - |
RoCE | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
NVMe-oF | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
DPDK | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
ASAP² | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
SR-IOV | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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