Deliver vGPU-powered virtual desktops at scale
Horizon and NVIDIA vGPU technologies work together to help deliver flexible, high-performance, security-focused digital workspaces.
Flexible deployment options
Enable high-performance virtual desktops on-premises, in private or public clouds, or in hybrid environments with seamless support for NVIDIA vGPU and RTX technologies. This flexibility helps IT teams match infrastructure to workload demands.
Immersive user experiences
Deliver an experience that helps boost developer and knowledge worker productivity with GPU-based encoding, including H.264, HEVC, and AV1, integrated with the Omnissa Blast protocol. This pairing supports crisp, responsive graphics even over variable networks.
Security-focused access from any device
Help safeguard AI workloads, software development, data, and agents using Horizon 8 VDI and Horizon Cloud DaaS delivery models. Centralized control is designed to help IT enforce policy without slowing down developers or engineers.
NVIDIA partnership overview
The Omnissa and NVIDIA partnership helps enterprises run GPU-intensive workloads on secure, centrally managed virtual desktops.
Accelerated performance for human and agent workloads
Efficient infrastructure for hybrid work
Enhanced user experience
Display and encoding optimization
NVIDIA and Omnissa: better together
Horizon and NVIDIA vGPU combine to deliver GPU-accelerated, high-performance digital workspaces for demanding enterprise use cases.
Combined Value
Horizon integrates with NVIDIA vGPU to help deliver cost-effective accelerated performance for enterprise workloads, including graphics rendering and AI development tasks like training AI models or running local inference based on fine-tuned SLMs and LLMs. Teams get compute-intensive application support without dedicated physical workstations.
Combined Value
Horizon combined with NVIDIA RTX technology helps provide efficient infrastructure for hybrid work, increasing user density while helping maintain a consistent experience across devices and locations. IT teams can support more users per host without added hardware.
Combined Value
The Omnissa Blast protocol combined with NVIDIA hardware encoders helps deliver smooth, responsive virtual desktops for AI developers, engineers, and office workers alike. Lower latency and crisp display streaming support demanding visual workloads remotely.
NVIDIA and Omnissa: architecture overview
This section covers how Horizon, NVIDIA vGPU, and RTX technologies work together to deliver secure, high-performance sessions.
Components
Horizon and NVIDIA vGPU technologies combine at the infrastructure and protocol layers to deliver GPU-accelerated desktops. Together, they support graphics-intensive and AI development workloads.
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Horizon 8 and Horizon Cloud
Broker connections and manage virtual desktop and app delivery.
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NVIDIA vGPU
Provides shared GPU acceleration across virtual machines.
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NVIDIA RTX
Delivers dedicated graphics acceleration for demanding workloads.
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Omnissa Blast protocol
Streams desktop and app sessions using local NVIDIA hardware encoders.
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Frequently asked questions
A vGPU-powered virtual desktop uses shared or dedicated NVIDIA GPU resources to accelerate graphics and compute-intensive tasks in a virtual environment. This helps deliver high-performance sessions for AI development, design, and engineering work. Horizon integrates NVIDIA vGPU technology to support these workloads at scale.
Horizon integrates with NVIDIA vGPU by allocating GPU resources to virtual desktops through Horizon 8 and Horizon Cloud. The Omnissa Blast protocol also leverages local NVIDIA hardware encoders to stream sessions with lower latency. This combination supports both performance and centralized management.
Virtually any device running the Horizon Client can access vGPU enabled desktops, including laptops, thin clients, and tablets. The GPU-intensive processing happens in the data-center or cloud, not on the endpoint. This helps organizations extend high-performance computing to a broader range of devices.
GPU virtualization management helps isolate GPU resources between virtual machines, reducing the risk of workload interference. Horizon adds centralized policy enforcement and keeps data off the endpoint. Together, these capabilities help support compliance requirements for regulated industries.
Organizations can get started by exploring Horizon 8 and Horizon Cloud deployment options and requesting a personalized demo. Omnissa provides deployment guides and Tech Zone resources to support planning. A solutions specialist can help identify the right vGPU configuration for specific workloads.