Friday, November 8, 2024

NVIDIA TESLA P100 - Windows and VMWare (Software Versions)

 The NVIDIA Tesla P100 is a server GPU, thas has become afordable recently, you can use it on Windows directly or as a GRID GPU on VMWARE ESXi (shared between VMs). 

As this is an older GPU it's not supported on the latest drivers in Windows or the latest VMWARE ESXi (it's well supported on Proxmox).


Windows

You can get the windows drivers here:

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/gpus/grid-drivers-table?hl=pt-br#windows_drivers

the latest driver that will support the P100 is:

        538.33

from example version 551.61 does not support the P100:

















VMware ESXi
The latest version of ESXi that suports the P100 as a Grid GPU is ESXi 6.7.
On later versions of VMWare you can only do Passthrough to one VM.


Hope this helps someone to avoid losing as much time as I did trying finding the rigth versions of software that support the NVIDIA Tesla P100.