Solution Overview

NVIDIA RTX
Virtual Workstation
The world’s most powerful virtualcomputing solution.

The Challenges of the Digital, Borderless Enterprise
For creators across industries, bringing concepts to life in the digital medium isa key step to designing the next iteration of everything from office buildings,
airplanes, and films of tomorrow. Immersive visualization tools enable an interactive
design process, so professionals can render, photorealistic images for final digitalartistry, and run simulations faster to get the best designs before the concept
enters the real world. Traditionally, these advanced workflows have been limited tohigh-powered workstations that are tethered to brick-and-mortar facilities with
fixed compute infrastructures. But after hasty transitions to remote work and theadvent of hybrid working cultures, today’s organizations find themselves operatingin multiple geographies. And distributed teams need to collaborate and share highly
confidential data in real time. Without the proper infrastructure to support thevisualization tools creators rely on, companies face the following challenges:> The risk of mission-critical data or intellectual property left unsecured on aworkstation’s local storage media.
> Inefficient workflows that are interrupted by network latency and lengthy cycle
times for remote file access and editing.
> Constrained productivity resulting from limited access to data and designs
from offsite or offshore locations.
> Lost productivity time to resolving IT issues.

Virtualized Workstation-Class
PerformanceWith NVIDIA RTX Virtual Workstation(vWS)* powering your virtual desktop
environment, you enable industryleading GPU-acceleration on every
device in your organization. Unlock
the power of RTX in your data centeror cloud to:> Enable secure, work-fromanywhere VDI work styles.
> Tie the interactive design process,complex real-time simulations andspeed rendering of photorealistic
images together in a cohesive
workflow> Leverage AI-enhanced applications
for more fluid, visual interactivity
throughout the design process.
> Gain peace of mind with certified
compatibility with over 700
industry-leading visualization andanalytic applications.
> Enable business agility bystanding up new, powerful virtual
workstations in as little as ten
minutes.
> Create an efficient infrastructureby sharing the GPU, flexibly
scaling GPU resources according
to individual user needs, andincreasing utilization because idle
workstation resources can beallocated to another user, or torun compute workloads such as
simulation, rendering, or even AI.

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Transforming the Workstation
Virtual workstations address these challenges and free users from the confinesof physical location to deliver resources from the data center and provide secureaccess on any device, anywhere.
Most virtual workstation solutions have fallen short of providing theapplication performance needed to ensure smooth workflows for creative
and technical professionals.
With NVIDIA vWS, the trusted benefits of the RTX visual computing platform
deliver a true GPU accelerated data center to power virtual workstations that meetthe needs of a dispersed creative workforce. It’s designed to meet the needs ofcreative and technical applications, connecting designers, engineers, modelers, andarchitectects with their visualization tools in the interface of their desktop with asmooth user experience.
This freedom addresses the challenges of remote working across workforce
professional types by delivering the capacity and speed from your data center withsecure access on any device.
With RTX vWS in an accelerated data center, IT can look to expand tool sets, andset up new workflows like virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) withNVIDIA CloudXR™ and next-generation collaboration with NVIDIA Omniverse™.
Now, your business can eliminate constrained workflows that inhibit agility, andusers can securely collaborate in real-time without borders or limits.
You can efficiently centralize all your apps and data for a dramatically lower IT
operating expense. And IT can focus on managing strategic projects instead ofmanaging PCs and workstations—all while enabling more secure, remote work styles
with reduced threat of data loss or leakage.
With our latest generation Ada Lovelace architecture GPUs—the world’s fastest
virtual workstations have become even faster. NVIDIA RTX vWS with Ada Lovelacearchitecture-based GPUs deliver up to 3.8X better graphics performance, and 1.4X
better performance per dollar spent than our previous version.

The Power of RTX in Your DataCenterSimplifies RTX is a powerful visualcomputing platform that enables
simulation of the real-world at
unprecedented speeds.
RTX vWS harnesses the power of
RTX technology in a virtualized
data center enhancing computing
capacity, bringing more speed toprofessional visualization. RTX
enables the following features invisualization applications:> Ray-tracing: Realizes the dreamof real-time cinematic-qualityrendering. The ability to renderphotorealistic objects andenvironments in real time withaccurate shadows, reflections,and refractions make it possible
for professionals to create
amazing content faster.
> Artificial Intelligence: Brings thepower of AI to visual computing,enabling developers to createAI-augmented applications thatbring workflow acceleration toend users.
> Rasterization: Features advancesin programmable shading suchas variable-rate shading, texturespace shading, and multiview rendering. These enablericher visuals with more fluid
interactivity.
> Simulation: Enables accurate
modeling of the behavior of realworld objects in everything fromgames to virtual environments
and special effects.

Figure 1. One user per GPU, running on a server configured with 64GB RAM per user. Cost includes GPU HW +4 years of VGPU SW. SPECviewperf results tested on a server with 2x Xeon Gold 6154 3.0GHz (3.7GHz Turbo),
VMware vSphere 7.0 U2, host/guest driver 470.63. NVIDIA RTX vWS 13, SPECviewperf 2020, 4K Geomean.

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Virtualize Any Application
Architecture

Education

Empower architects, engineers, anddesigners to collaborate in real time on
designs with virtual workstations poweredby NVIDIA vWS.

Liberate the lab and provide access tographics-intensive 3D software traditionally
only found in on-campus physical labs—on any
device, from anywhere.

Common Applications:
Adobe® Creative Cloud®, Allplan, ANSYS,
Autodesk 3ds Max, Autodesk AutoCAD,Autodesk Revit, Bentley AECOsim, Bentley
MicroStation.

Common Applications: Autodesk 3ds Max,Autodesk AutoCAD, Autodesk Maya, Autodesk
Revit, Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS, Esri
ArcGIS.

Financial Services

Government

Run network-heavy applications onup to four 5K monitors, with security,redundancy, and continuity.

Deliver high-quality, simulated training
cost-effectively via 3D graphics–rich virtual
workstations.

Common Applications:Bloomberg, Reuters, Eikon, and otherelectronic trading platforms.

Common Applications:
Autodesk AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Cloud,ANSYS, Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS, Esri
ArcGIS Pro, Siemens PLM NX.

Healthcare

Manufacturing

Deliver remote access for 3D volumetricviewing and editing of images toradiologists, physicians, and medical
imaging specialists.

Compress design cycles and accelerate timeto-market, while protecting sensitive data, byenabling virtual access to photorealistic 3Dmodels.

Common Applications:
PACS (Picture Archiving andCommunication System), Eclipse MedicalImaging.

Common Applications: ANSYS Fluent, ANSYS
Mechanical, Autodesk AutoCAD, Autodesk
Inventor, Autodesk 3ds Max, Dassault Systèmes
SOLIDWORKS, Dassault Systèmes CATIA, PTC
Creo, Siemens PLM NX.

EnergyMedia and Entertainment

Enable geoscientists to remotely accesslarge seismic datasets residing securely
in the data center to make multi-milliondollar drilling decisions.

Remotely edit video, on up to two 8K monitors,
and bring on new contractors in minutes while
keeping video files securely in the data center.

Common Applications:
Autodesk Autodesk AutoCAD, ANSYS
Fluent, Dassault Systèmes CATIA, Dassault
Systèmes SOLIDWORKS, Esri ArcGIS,Landmark, Schlumberger Petrel.

Common Applications:
Adobe Creative Cloud, Autodesk
3ds Max, Autodesk Maya.

“To give our artists more compute power, wecan easily increase NVIDIA vGPU profile sizes
and reduce the number of users we put oneach server. We don’t need to replace anyequipment.”“NVIDIA vWS made it so that 98 -99 percent of ourusers could use the virtual environment just like aphysical machine sitting in front of them. Users areactually reporting back that it performs exactly thesame as a physical machine.”

Daire Byrne
Global Head of Systems
DNEG

Wesley Struble, CAD System Administrator,
North American Information Technology Services
DENSO International America
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NVIDIA vWS Features
Configuration and Deployment
Desktop Virtualization
Remote Desktop Session Host (RDSH) App Hosting

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RDSH Desktop Hosting1

Windows OS Support
Linux OS Support
GPU Pass-Through Support1
Bare Metal Support
NVIDIA Graphics Driver

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NVIDIA RTX Enterprise Driver
Management and Monitoring
Guaranteed Quality-of-Service SchedulingMulti-GPU Support2

Display
Maximum Hardware Rendered Display3

Up to four 5K or up to two 8K
7680x4320

Maximum Resolution4

Data Center Management
Host-, Guest-, and Application-Level Monitoring5
Live Migration6

SupportNVIDIA Direct Enterprise-Level Technical Support
Maintenance Releases, Defect Resolutions, and Security Patches for up to Three Years7

Advanced Professional Features
ISV Certifications
CUDA/OpenCL

8Graphics Features and APIs
NVIDIA NVENC
OpenGL Extensions, Including WebGL
RTX Performance Features and Optimization
DirectXVulkan Support

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Profiles12
Max Frame Buffer Supported
Available Profiles

48 GB
1Q, 2Q, 3Q, 4Q, 6Q,8Q, 12Q, 16Q, 24Q, 32Q , 48Q

NVIDIA Virtual GPU Hardware
Recommended GPUs for Different Use Cases
High-end professional graphics users

L4010

Mid-range professional graphics users

L411

Entry professional graphics users

L411

Only supported on 1:1 profiles.
Support starts with the NVIDIA virtual GPU software October 2018 release (version 7.0).
35K and 8K monitor support starts with NVIDIA virtual GPU software December 2019 release (version 10.0).
47680x4320 resolution support starts with NVIDIA virtual GPU software December 2019 release (version 10.0).
5Application-level monitoring is only available starting with the NVIDIA virtual GPU August 2017 release (version 5.0).
6Support starts with the NVIDIA virtual GPU software March 2018 release (version 6.0).
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Available with an active Support, Updates, and Maintenance (SUMs) contract.
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Supported on 8 GB 1:1 profile on Maxwell and all profiles on Pascal.
9Profiles supported have dependency on GPU selected. For more information, read the Virtual GPU Software User Guide.
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Support for NVIDIA L40 starting with NVIDIA vGPU software January 2023 (version 15.1).
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Support for NVIDIA L4 starting with NVIDIA vGPU software March 2023 (15.2).
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