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CONNECTX-6

The Highest Performance and Most Flexible Solution

The SmartNIC ConnectX®-6 SmartNIC, offers all the existing innovative features of past versions and a number of enhancements to further improve performance and scalability by introducing new acceleration engines for maximizing Cloud, Web 2.0, Big Data, Storage and Machine Learning applications.
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Single/Dual-Port Adapter Supporting 200Gb/s Ethernet

ConnectX-6 supports two ports of 200Gb/s Ethernet connectivity, sub-800 nanosecond latency, and 215 million messages per second, providing the highest performance and most flexible solution for the most demanding applications and markets. ConnectX-6 is a groundbreaking addition to the ConnectX series of industry-leading adapter cards offering a number of enhancements to further improve performance and scalability, and adding support for 200/100/50/40/25/10/1GbE Ethernet speeds and PCIe Gen4. Moreover, ConnectX-6 Ethernet cards can connect up to 32-lanes of PCIe to achieve 200Gb/s of bandwidth, even on Gen 3.0 PCIe systems.

PORT SPEEDS

2x200Gb/s

MESSAGE RATE (DPDK)

215 million msgs/sec

PCIE LANES

x32 Gen3/Gen4

ENCRYPTION

AES-XTS

Key Features

  • Up to 215 M messages/second
  • Hardware offloads for NVGRE and VXLAN encapsulated traffic
  • Enhanced vSwitch / vRouter Offloads
  • SmartNIC PeerDirect™ communication acceleration
  • NVMe over Fabric (NVMf) Target Offloads

    • Benefits

  • Intelligent network adapter supporting flexible pipeline programmability
  • Innovative design for storage and ML based on Host Chaining technology
  • Cutting-edge performance in virtualized networks NFV
  • Advanced storage capabilities including NVMe over Fabric offload
  • Interconnect for x86, Power, ARM, and GPU-based compute and storage platforms
  • ConnectX-6 Product Brief