Daily schedule: Microsoft in-booth sessions at NVIDIA GTC
We look forward to seeing you at the NVIDIA GTC AI Conference March 17 - 21 in San Jose, CA or virtually. Visit Microsoft booth #514 for daily informative sessions…
06/03/2025
NGads V620 series: Optimized for gaming scenarios – General availability and benchmarks
The Azure family of visualization GPU VMs has gained a new member. Many customers have used the VMs in our existing portfolio for a variety of visualization workloads as well as gaming scenarios. The feedback we have received consistently is that workloads with intense graphic generation and streaming require a…
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