Mellanox ConnectX-5 CX516A 100GbE Dual-Port Network Interface Card

Product Description

The Mellanox ConnectX-5 CX516A is a high-performance 100GbE dual-port network interface card (NIC) engineered for high-performance computing (HPC), enterprise data centers, and cloud environments. It delivers up to 100Gb/s per port of bandwidth with ultra-low latency, running over a PCIe Gen 3.0/4.0 x16 interface. Equipped with advanced hardware offloads for RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE), NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF), and Open vSwitch (OVS), it significantly reduces CPU utilization while accelerating data transfer and network virtualization. Ideal for bandwidth-intensive databases, cloud-scale computing, and high-frequency trading workloads.

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