Introduction

Intelligent RDMA-enabled, single and dual-port network adapter with advanced application offload capabilities for Web 2.0, Cloud, Storage, and Telco platforms.

ConnectX-5 Ethernet adapter cards provide high performance and flexible solutions with up to two ports of 100GbE connectivity, 750ns latency, up to 200 million messages per second (Mpps), and a record setting 197Mpps when running an open source Data Path Development Kit (DPDK) PCIe (Gen 4.0). For storage workloads, ConnectX-5 delivers a range of innovative accelerations, such as Signature Handover (T10-DIF) in hardware, an embedded PCIe Switch, and NVMe over Fabric target offloads. ConnectX-5 adapter cards also bring advanced Open vSwitch offloads to telecommunications and cloud data centers to drive extremely high packet rates and throughput with reduced CPU resource consumption, thus boosting data center infrastructure efficiency.

ConnectX-5 adapter cards are available for PCIe Gen 3.0 and Gen 4.0 servers and provide support for 1, 10, 25, 40, 50 and 100 GbE speeds in stand-up PCIe cards, OCP 2.0, and OCP 3.0 form factors. ConnectX-5 cards also offer advanced Mellanox Multi-Host and Mellanox Socket Direct technologies.

Ports & interfaces

Connectivity technology

Wired

Host interface

PCI Express

Interface

Ethernet

Fiber ports quantity

2

Fiber optic connector

SFP28

PCI version

3.0

Network

Maximum data transfer rate

25000 Mbit/s

Networking standards

IEEE 802.1Q, IEEE 802.1Qau, IEEE 802.1Qaz, IEEE 802.1Qbb, IEEE 802.1Qbg, IEEE 802.3ae, IEEE 802.3ap, IEEE 802.3az, IEEE 802.3ba, IEEE 802.3bm

Ethernet LAN

Y

Ethernet interface type

10 Gigabit Ethernet, 25 Gigabit Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet

Ethernet LAN data rates

1000,10000,25000 Mbit/s

Design

Component for

Server

Product colour

Multicolour

Internal

Y