NVIDIA Grid – what is it?

NVIDIA GRID is a GPU virtualization technology developed by NVIDIA that enables sharing the resources of a single physical GPU across multiple virtual machines or users. Architecturally, NVIDIA GRID is based on mechanisms for partitioning GPU resources and integrates with hypervisors, providing isolation, performance management, and access control to graphical and compute capabilities.

In practical scenarios, NVIDIA GRID vGPU is used to build virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), remote graphics environments, CAD/CAE applications, and AI workloads where multiple users access GPU resources concurrently. The technology enables optimization of hardware utilization, centralized infrastructure management, and consistent performance across diverse workloads in enterprise and cloud environments, including support for performance profiles and flexible scaling.