NVIDIA BlueField-3 SuperNIC - High-Performance 8 ARM Core, FHHL / HHHL, QSFP112 Ports, PCIe Gen5 x16 Network Card

NVIDIA BlueField-3 SuperNIC is a high-performance, ultra-low-latency network interface designed for large-scale AI, HPC, and cloud infrastructures. Engineered for GPU-accelerated systems, it delivers deterministic networking performance with support for 200/400GbE and NDR InfiniBand. The SuperNIC architecture enables efficient GPU-to-GPU communication, congestion-aware transport, and hardware-accelerated networking, ensuring consistent throughput across AI clusters and distributed training workloads.

BlueField-3 SuperNICs offload critical data-path operations from the CPU, reduce jitter, and provide optimised connectivity for multi-GPU servers, AI factories, and high-density compute nodes. With GPUDirect technologies, advanced telemetry, and precision congestion control, the SuperNIC ensures scalable, predictable, and high-bandwidth communication for next-generation AI computing environments.

KEY FEATURES:

• High-speed connectivity: 200/400GbE and NDR InfiniBand
• Ultra-low latency: Optimised for deterministic GPU-to-GPU communication
• GPUDirect support: RDMA and Storage for direct data movement
• Congestion control: Adaptive routing and traffic management
• Hardware offload: Reduces CPU load for networking operations
• Scalable design: Built for large AI and HPC training clusters
• Port flexibility: Multiple port configurations for diverse servers
• Telemetry support: Real-time monitoring and performance metrics
• Secure operation: Secure boot and firmware integrity protections

APPLICATIONS:

AI & HPC Fabric Acceleration:

NVIDIA BlueField-3 SuperNICs are engineered for the next generation of AI supercomputing and large-scale HPC clusters, where ultra-low latency and lossless data movement are critical. With hardware-accelerated RoCEv2, congestion control, and advanced packet scheduling, the SuperNIC ensures deterministic and high-throughput communication between thousands of GPUs. Its AI-tuned transport engine eliminates network hotspots, packet drops, and jitter problems common in AI training at scale. By supporting GPUDirect RDMA and in-network acceleration, the SuperNIC enables GPUs to communicate directly across nodes without involving the CPU, reducing latency and significantly accelerating distributed training workloads. This makes it ideal for LLM training clusters, GPU-dense servers, and next-generation exascale systems that demand consistent, predictable network performance

Cloud Computing & Virtualised Workloads:

SuperNICs elevate cloud performance by delivering hardware-accelerated networking designed for high I/O virtualised environments. Their programmable pipeline handles VXLAN, NVGRE, and GENEVE encapsulation in hardware, enabling fast and efficient virtual networking at scale. With enhanced SR-IOV, multi-queue offloads, and precise queue scheduling, SuperNICs reduce overhead on the hypervisor and free CPU cores for tenant workloads. This creates a high-density, low-latency cloud infrastructure capable of supporting multi-tenant deployments, serverless computing, and high-throughput microservices. BlueField-3 SuperNIC technology ensures predictable performance even during heavy east-west traffic, making cloud platforms more stable and scalable for modern application architectures

Data Center Storage & NVMe Workloads:

Modern storage clusters depend on consistent, high-bandwidth networking, something the SuperNIC is specifically optimised for. It accelerates NVMe-over-Fabrics (NVMe-oF), enabling disaggregated storage nodes to operate with near-local latency across the network. Intelligent traffic steering and congestion avoidance ensure smooth performance even under intensive IOPS workloads or large sequential transfers. The SuperNIC’s RDMA and zero-copy capabilities minimise CPU involvement, increasing efficiency for large-scale distributed storage systems, all-flash arrays, software-defined storage, and cloud-native database clusters. This results in faster replication, lower latency, and more stable throughput for mission-critical workloads that rely on predictable storage networking

Enterprise Networking & Secure Data Path Acceleration:

While DPUs focus on deep security offload, SuperNICs deliver streamlined, high-performance data path acceleration with light-weight security enhancements. They support line-rate encryption offloads, access control, and secure transport capabilities that protect enterprise workloads without performance penalties. The deterministic traffic control features allow enterprises to isolate applications, enforce QoS policies, and maintain high network efficiency during mixed traffic patterns. SuperNICs ensure smooth operation for latency-sensitive workloads like financial analytics, high-frequency trading, simulation environments, and real-time decision engines. Their architectural optimisation reduces jitter and guarantees a consistent network fabric foundation for large enterprise environments

Telecom, 5G Core & Edge Infrastructure:

Telecom operators benefit from BlueField-3 SuperNICs through precise timing support, congestion-free network behaviour, and reliable data plane performance. Features such as hardware timestamping, IEEE 1588v2 precision timing, and congestion control enable 5G UPF, ORAN, and edge gateway deployments to operate with carrier-grade accuracy. SuperNICs ensure stable performance for workloads that require deterministic packet handling, such as network slicing, RAN transport, and latency-sensitive media processing. Their scalability and predictable behaviour make them well-suited for edge data centers, metro PoPs, and telecom clouds where large numbers of small packets and strict timing requirements must coexist without delay or packet loss

PRODUCT DETAILS:

ADVANCED FEATURES:

• Ultra-High-Speed Networking: Supports up to 400 GbE / NDR InfiniBand, enabling AI, HPC, and cloud workloads with extremely low latency.
• Arm-Based Compute Complex: 8 Arm A78 cores for offloading networking, storage, and security tasks from the host CPU.
  
• Programmable Datapath: DOCA-programmable datapath for SDN, NFV, packet acceleration, and telemetry.
  
• DDR5 ECC Memory: 16 GB DDR5 ECC, ensuring high bandwidth, low latency, and data integrity.
  
• Advanced Security: Secure boot, hardware root-of-trust, flash encryption, full crypto offloads (MACsec/IPsec/TLS).
  
• Deep Packet Inspection: Hardware line-rate RegEx DPI for IDS/IPS, application-layer filtering, and firewall enforcement.
  
• Storage Offload: NVMe-oF & NVMe/TCP support with SNAP elastic block storage, erasure coding, and M.2/U.2 direct-attached SSD expansion.
  
• SDN/NFV Acceleration: ASAP² engine for virtual switching, flow steering, and high-performance NFV.
  
• Overlay Network Offload: VXLAN, GENEVE, NVGRE encapsulation/decapsulation at line rate.
  
• Virtualisation & TCP Offload: High-performance SR-IOV, VirtIO, TCP offload, connection tracking, hierarchical QoS.
  
• HPC/AI Optimisation: Supports GPUDirect RDMA, GPUDirect Storage, and MPI acceleration for deterministic communications.
  
• Timing & Synchronisation: IEEE 1588v2, SyncE, PPS in/out, hardware timestamping.
  
• Form Factors & Ports: Available in FHHL / HHHL with 1, 2, or 4 QSFP112 ports.
  
• Management & Monitoring: 1 GbE OOB, NC-SI, PLDM, MCTP, I2C, SPI, UART interfaces.
  
• Software Framework: Fully programmable using NVIDIA DOCA for unified acceleration across networking, storage, and security.
  
  

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