Abstract

Data center computing environments for Cloud, Edge Computing and Hyper- converged infrastructures (HCI) demand high performance throughput, 25GbE or higher server connectivity, scalability and resilience.

NVIDIA® Mellanox® commissioned Tolly to benchmark the performance of its ConnectX®-5 25GbE network adapter against the performance of Broadcom’s NetXtreme® E 25GbE network adapter in cloud and storage computing environments. The series of datacenter-oriented tests used included RoCE fabric, FIO, DPDK RFC 2544 and DPDK CPU throughput.

The ConnectX-5 25GbE adapter demonstrated higher throughput, better scale and lower resource utilization across the set of test scenarios. .