For anyone considering getting a GRID K1 card for actual production use I would highly suggest locating a demo first and thoroughly testing it. Other then actual 3d workloads every single test I have ran usually shows that when running on a host with a K1 card everything will be noticably slower. Things as simple as scrolling on a web page with pictures on it will be jumpy when offloading to a K1 card while smooth on an indenticle ESXi host without the card. Playing a small partial window streaming video such as those found on news sites will also use up over 50% of one of the GPU cores, with a K1 card having 4 cores I am unsure how well these cards will scale in the high virtualization ratio typical for VDI deployments.
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