When it comes to graphics cards, then most eyes have been on the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 cards as far as Nvidia is concerned, but that isn’t all that Nvidia released recently. A lot might have missed the Tesla M10 launch which is a card that features four Maxwell based GPUs on a single graphics card. The Tesla M10 is aimed at Virtual PCs and Virtual application workloads with a design that’s user optimized.
To fully utilize all that, you need a proper server and Gigabyte naturally had just that along with them to Computex. The G190-H44 is a system designed for just this usage scenario and it supports up to four of these new Tesla M10 cards with Nvidia validation.
With two CPU sockets that support the E5-2600 V4 Xeon processors and 16 DDR4 DIMM slots, we are sure to have a great base for any intensive task. The 80 Plus Platinum rated and redundant 2000W power supply will make sure that everything runs with a great efficiency and redundancy.
Not only did Gigabyte have the server with them, they also brought along a real M10 card, not just a mockup. Looking at the back, we clearly see the four GPUs that each of them is paired with 8GB GDDR5 memory. In total that gives the card 2560 CUDA cores and 32 GB of GDDR5.
The Tesla M10 is NVDIA’s user density optimized solution, providing a maximum number of virtual users on a single graphics card. With up to 64 virtual users on a single card and the ability to insert four of these cards into the Gigabyte G190-H44, we got an impressive system for a Virtual System setup.
The Tesla M10 is a card designed for server systems which means that it is a passive card which relies on the systems cooling. It is also a card that uses Nvidia’s efficient GM107 family and as such doesn’t require that much power despite having four GPUs. As we see here, it only comes with a single 8-pin power connector and has a 225W TDP.
The M10 is also able to handle 28 simultaneous H.264 1080p30 streams.
