The ConnectX‑5 Ethernet Network Interface Card delivers high-performance and flexible solutions with two 50GbE ports, 750ns latency, up to 200 million packets per second (Mpps), and a record of 197 Mpps when running the open-source Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) over PCIe Gen 4.0. For storage workloads, the ConnectX‑5 offers a range of innovative acceleration features, such as T10‑DIF signature switching in hardware, an embedded PCIe switch, and NVMe over Fabrics target offload. The ConnectX‑5 adapter card also brings advanced Open vSwitch offload to telecom and cloud data centers, enabling extremely high packet rates and throughput while reducing CPU resource consumption, thereby improving the efficiency of data center infrastructure.

Product advantages:

• Up to 50Gb/s connection per port

• Industry-leading throughput, low latency, low CPU utilization and high message rate

• Innovative rack design for storage and machine learning based on Host Chaining technology

• Intelligent interconnect for x86, Power and GPU-based compute and storage platforms

• Advanced storage features including NVMe over Fabrics offload

• Smart network adapter supporting flexible pipeline programmability

• Cutting-edge performance for virtualized networks including Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)

• Efficient I/O consolidation reduces data center cost and complexity