Best practices for sizing and configuring solutions requiring graphics accelerators include:

• NVIDIA vPC licenses support up to 2 GB of video buffer and up to 2 x 4K monitors to cover most traditional VDI users. Maximum node density for graphics-accelerated use can typically be calculated as the available video buffer per node divided by the video buffer size.
• The addition of GPU cards does not necessarily reduce CPU utilization. Instead, it enhances the user experience and offloads specific operations that are best performed by the GPU.
• Dell Technologies recommends using the BLAST protocol for vGPU-enabled desktops. NVIDIA GPUs are equipped with encoders that support BLAST.
• Virtual workstations are typically configured with at least 2 GB video buffer.
• For solutions that use NVIDIA M10 GPU cards in a solution, Dell Technologies recommends a maximum memory capacity of less than 1 TB, due to limitations in the Maxwell architecture. Newer NVIDIA GPU architectures do not have the same limitation.