About NVIDIA vGPU Software Licensing - Reference

NVIDIA® RTX Virtual Workstation (vWS), NVIDIA Virtual PC (vPC), and NVIDIA Virtual Applications (vApps) are available as licensed products on supported NVIDIA data center GPUs.

Licensing for NVIDIA vGPUs

NVIDIA vGPU deployments require a license. When booted on a supported GPU, a vGPU runs with full capability. As long as the system remains unlicensed, the vGPU performance/functionality is progressively degraded over time where restrictions will be applied.

The performance/functionality of an unlicensed vGPU is restricted as follows:

These restrictions are removed when a license is acquired.

Licensing for Physical GPUs

To operate at full capability, a physical GPU running in GPU pass-through mode or a bare-metal deployment requires a vWS license. You can also operate a physical GPU in pass-through mode or a bare-metal deployment at reduced capability with a vApps license. vPC is not available on GPUs running in pass-through mode or bare-metal deployments.

A physical GPU with a vWS license supports multiple virtual display heads at resolutions up to 8K and flexible virtual display resolutions based on the number of available pixels. For details, see Display Resolutions for Physical GPUs in Virtual GPU Client Licensing User Guide.

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