Nvidia BlueField-3 User Manual

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Date Description
Feb 2022 Updated list of SKUs across the document
AddedBlueField DPU Administrator Quick Start Guide
AddedSetting High-Speed-Port Link Type
Added an important note on theExternal PCIe Power Supply Connector
Jan 2023 AddedPCIe Auxiliary Card Kit
Nov 2022 Updated the following sections:
NC-SI Interface Pinouts
Jul 2022 Updated the following sections:
Cabline CA-II Plus Connectors with additional information.
Added Cabline CA-II Connector pins in Pinouts Description.
Finding the GUID/MAC on the DPU with board label examples.
PCI Express Interface pinouts to reflect changes in pins BB81 and B882.
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Added heatsink dimensions inIntroduction andSpecifications.
Jun 2022 Renamed the document from "NVIDIA BleuField-3 InfiniBand/VPI DPU User
Guide" to "NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU User Guide"
May 2022 First release

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