MIG support on RTX 5000 Pro Blackwell

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Hello great Nvidia.

I have a question about MIG support licensing.
I have found tree types of licenses: NVIDIA Virtual PC (vPC), RTX Virtual Workstation (vWS), NVIDIA AI Enterprise.
How much is each of them to allow using MIG technology on single RTX 5000 Pro Blackwell GPU?

My second question is about enabling MIG technology on RTX 5000 Pro Blackwell GPU.
The current state of the GPU is:

nvidia-smi

±----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 590.48.01 Driver Version: 590.48.01 CUDA Version: 13.1 |
±----------------------------------------±-----------------------±---------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
| 0 NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blac… On | 00000000:00:08.0 Off | Off |
| 30% 31C P8 9W / 300W | 2MiB / 48935MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
±----------------------------------------±-----------------------±---------------------+

As you can see the MIG M. is N/A. I would rather expect Disabled.

nvidia-smi --query-gpu=vbios_version --format=csv

vbios_version
98.02.92.00.01

nvidia-smi -i 0 -mig 1

Unable to enable MIG Mode for GPU 00000000:00:08.0: Not Supported

According to the online documentation:
https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/tesla/mig-user-guide/getting-started-with-mig.html
NVIDIA RTX 5000 Pro Blackwell supports up to 2 instances of MIG. What I am doing wrong ?

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Hi,

RTX GPU is not support MIG feature.

If you want use MIG, you need a datacenter GPU. Like:

  1. A100 / A30
  2. H100 / H200
  3. L40S (limited cases)
  4. Some Blackwell datacenter SKUs

Thanks,

Suo

3

Did you switch the GPU device from its default graphics mode to the compute mode?

Please carefully read the MIG user guide link about the DisplayModeSelector tool and the accessibility warning if that is your only graphics board inside the system.

Maybe also look at the related topics listed below this thread for more information.

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This is the correct way, the RTX PRO 5000 ships with a MIG enabled VBIOS, needs a minimum driver, and then needs to be switched into compute mode, for MIG to be possible to enable, with then no more gfx out from that very GPU…

thanks
-Frank