GPU Virtualization & Partitioning

vGPU (Virtual GPU)

A vGPU is a virtual instance of a physical GPU created through virtualization software, giving a VM or container dedicated GPU compute without owning the whole card.

vGPU technology (such as NVIDIA vGPU) underpins most enterprise GPU-sharing models, letting infrastructure teams size compute to the workload rather than to the hardware.

It's typically paired with a scheduler that decides which vGPU instance gets access at any given moment.

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