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NVIDIA EGX Server for Professional Visualization
High-Performance Visual Computing in the Data Center
From rendering and virtualization to engineering analysis and data science, accelerate multiple workloads on any device with the NVIDIA® EGX™ server for professional visualization. A highly flexible reference design that combines high-end NVIDIA GPUs with NVIDIA virtual GPU (vGPU) software and high-performance networking, this NVIDIA-Certified System™ delivers exceptional graphics and compute power, enabling artists to do their best work—from anywhere—at a fraction of the cost, space, and power of CPU-based solutions.
Grounded in the NVIDIA EGX Platform, the NVIDIA-Certified System can be configured with NVIDIA vGPU software to create powerful virtual workstations. This enables professionals to do their work from anywhere, while increasing productivity, improving data center utilization, and reducing IT costs and maintenance. Provision multiple, easy-to-manage virtual workstations or a combination of virtual workstations and render nodes from a single NVIDIA EGX server with NVIDIA Quadro® Virtual Data Center Workstation (Quadro vDWS) software.
Render final frames or boost local workstation rendering performance with the power of GPU acceleration. By utilizing EGX server with NVIDIA RTX™ technology-accelerated software, designers and artists can render jobs offline and produce final ray-traced images at a fraction of the time of traditional CPU-based render nodes. Even achieve fully interactive, photorealistic visualization in the application viewport by connecting to one or more EGX servers to boost desktop performance.
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Set up, test, and iterate on complex simulations faster with EGX server, which delivers the massive compute power needed to drive simulation and generative design software tools. When coupled with Quadro vDWS software, EGX server enables engineers to design by day and compute by night—from anywhere. GPU-powered parallel processing accelerates 32-bit simulation codes, while NVIDIA Turing™ RT Cores and Tensor Cores help RTX technology-enabled applications render more physically accurate results—faster. Combining multiple NVIDIA GPUs with Quadro vDWS allows engineers to run simulations more quickly, smoothly and securely, processing higher-fidelity models in a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environment.
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Data science requires powerful computing capabilities to turn massive amounts of data into valuable insights. With NVIDIA GPUs and Quadro vDWS, data scientists can provision multiple high-performance data science workstations to bring GPU-acceleration to their entire workflow in a virtualized environment, from data prep and model training to visualization. NVIDIA CUDA-X AI™ and NGC™ containers feature a collection of software-accelerated libraries like RAPIDS™ and XGBoost to completely transform data science and AI workloads, allowing data scientists to make predictions faster than ever before.
The journey from ideation to creation is a multi-stage process that requires close collaboration between design and development teams. With NVIDIA Omniverse™, a leading-edge digital collaboration platform, engineers and designers can simplify workflows for real-time graphics. Running the Omniverse platform on EGX server with Quadro vDWS software streamlines 2D and 3D product pipelines for design teams working in a wide range of industries. Built around the latest industry standards for design collaboration, it allows you to maintain live connections between industry-standard applications and NVIDIA Omniverse View.
Bringing GPU visualization to the edge requires expertise across cloud orchestration, virtualization, 5G network operations, and more. Accelerate time to visualization at the edge with the EGX server for extended reality (XR) 5G multi-access edge computing (MEC), a full-stack hardware and software solution powered by EGX server-validated systems. This solution combines NVIDIA RTX GPUs with Quadro vDWS software and the NVIDIA CloudXR™ SDK, so developers can securely run and scale XR applications to untethered devices, anywhere, across 5G networks.
Drive dynamic, large-scale visualization with EGX server configured for scalable visualization, allowing professionals to easily deploy and manage large-display environments from the data center. Whether they’re developing the next theme park attraction or creating multi-sided cave automatic virtual environments (CAVE), now it’s easier than ever to drive the most immersive visual experiences.
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GPU Features | NVIDIA A40 | NVIDIA RTX A6000 | NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 |
NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 |
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Architecture | NVIDIA Ampere Architecture | NVIDIA Ampere Architecture | NVIDIA Turing Architecture | NVIDIA Turing Architecture |
GPU Memory | 48 GB GDDR6 | 48 GB GDDR6 | 48 GB GDDR6 | 24 GB GDDR6 |
Interconnect Bandwidth (Bidirectional) |
112.5 GB/s | 112.5 GB/s | 100 GB/s | 100 GB/s |
Max Power Consumption | 300 Watts | 300 Watts | 250 Watts | 250 Watts |
Thermal Solution | Passive | Active | Passive | Passive |
Display Connector | 3x DisplayPort 1.4 (off by default) |
4x DisplayPort 1.4 (on by default) |
No physical display connectors.* | No physical display connectors.* |
Resources | View NVIDIA Professional Graphics Solutions Line Card (PDF 186 KB) Learn more about NVIDIA A40 |
View NVIDIA Professional Graphics Solutions Line Card (PDF 186 KB) Learn more about NVIDIA RTX A6000 |
View NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 Passive Product Brief (PDF 424 KB) View Quadro RTX 8000 Passive Data Sheet (PDF 206 KB) View NVIDIA Data Center GPU Line Card (PDF 53 KB) |
View NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 Passive Product Brief (PDF 423 KB) View Quadro RTX 6000 Passive Data Sheet (PDF 204 KB) View NVIDIA Data Center GPU Line Card (PDF 53 KB) |
Where to Buy | Notify Me | Notify Me | View Partners | View Partners |
*Display output requires Quadro vDWS license. To learn more visit www.nvidia.com/quadro-vdws
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The NVIDIA EGX server for professional visualization is a reference design for easily configuring and deploying servers running NVIDIA GPUs with the option of Quadro Virtual Data Center Workstation software across several workloads. Designed and tested through multi-vendor cooperation between NVIDIA and its system and independent software vendor (ISV) partners, EGX server provides a trusted environment to host graphics and compute-intensive applications in the data center.
No, as part of the NVIDIA EGX platform, the EGX server for professional visualization is a reference design delivered through partnerships with industry-leading system vendors and ISVs.
This workload-optimized EGX server supports NVIDIA A40 and RTX A6000, and Quadro RTX 6000, and RTX 8000 GPUs.
The solution has been tested across multiple workloads, including batch rendering, virtual workstations, scalable visual systems, collaborative AEC concept design, CAE/engineering simulation, and CloudXR multi-access edge computing (MEC). Best practices for each of these solutions are documented in the associated EGX server design guides, which can be found on our Quadro Product Literature page.
NVIDIA A40 and RTX A6000, as well as Quadro RTX 6000 and Quadro RTX 8000, fully support all editions of NVIDIA vGPU software, including Quadro Virtual Data Center Workstation (Quadro vDWS), NVIDIA Virtual Compute Server (vCS), and NVIDIA GRID® software.
NVIDIA EGX server is available directly from OEM and system integration partners.
Pricing is determined by our OEM partners. Please contact them for details.