NVLink interconnect
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NVLink interconnect is NVIDIA’s high-speed GPU-to-GPU and GPU-to-CPU communication technology designed to provide significantly greater bandwidth and lower latency than traditional PCIe connections in high-performance computing and data center systems.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
GPU interconnect
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NVIDIA technology ⓘ high-speed interconnect technology ⓘ |
| architecture | serial high-speed links ⓘ |
| bandwidthAdvantageOver |
PCIe 3.0
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PCIe 4.0 ⓘ |
| brand | NVIDIA NVLink NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| comparedTo | PCI Express NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connects |
GPUs to CPUs in supported architectures
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multiple GPUs within a node ⓘ |
| designedFor |
GPU-to-CPU communication
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GPU-to-GPU communication ⓘ data center systems ⓘ high-performance computing ⓘ |
| developer | NVIDIA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| enables |
high-bandwidth GPU memory sharing
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scaling of multi-GPU systems ⓘ |
| generation |
NVLink 1.0
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NVLink 2.0 NERFINISHED ⓘ NVLink 3.0 NERFINISHED ⓘ NVLink 4.0 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
cache-coherent communication in supported systems
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high bandwidth ⓘ low latency ⓘ point-to-point links ⓘ |
| introducedBy | NVIDIA Pascal architecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| latencyLowerThan | PCIe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| manufacturer | NVIDIA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| marketSegment |
cloud AI infrastructure
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enterprise data centers ⓘ supercomputing ⓘ |
| relatedStandard | PCI Express NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supports |
GPU peer-to-peer memory access
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unified memory addressing in supported platforms ⓘ |
| supportsTopology |
hypercube-like topologies
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mesh topologies ⓘ |
| typicalUseCase |
AI inference workloads
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AI training workloads ⓘ large-scale data analytics ⓘ scientific simulations ⓘ |
| usedIn |
NVIDIA A100 GPUs
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NVIDIA DGX systems NERFINISHED ⓘ NVIDIA H100 GPUs NERFINISHED ⓘ NVIDIA HGX platforms NERFINISHED ⓘ NVIDIA NVSwitch-based systems NERFINISHED ⓘ NVIDIA Tesla GPUs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedWith | NVSwitch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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