Nvidia BlueField-3 User Manual

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5.9 DPU Controller Power-Up and Power-Down
Sequences
5.9.1 Power-Up Sequence
The 12V_ATX voltage can exceed the 12V_PCIE voltage by a maximum allowable voltage
difference (dV) when the 12V_ATX reaches 11V. See below graph and table describing the dV
between the 12V_ATX and 12V_PCIE voltages.

Nvidia BlueField-3 Specifications

General

Product Type	DPU (Data Processing Unit)
Power Consumption	Up to 75W
Manufacturing Process	7nm
Operating Temperature	0°C to 70°C
Virtualization	SR-IOV, Virtio
Target Applications	Cloud, Networking, Storage
Memory	Up to 16 GB DDR4
Memory Bandwidth	Up to 200 GB/s
Networking	Up to 400 GbE
PCIe	PCIe Gen4 x16
Storage Acceleration	NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF)
Security	Hardware root of trust, Secure boot
Form Factor	PCIe Card
Acceleration Engines	Networking, Storage, Security
Software Support	NVIDIA DOCA
Cache	L1, L2, L3 caches