VDI and graphics

[chris2005]

Hi there,

I am wondering the following very much:

Video is generated by a GPU (videocard) on the remote server and then transported to a client. Ofcourse network speed has major influence on the video performance on the client. But what I'm wondering about is how much the performance capacity of the client's GPU influences the video performance a user experiences.

Looking forward to an answer.

Regards,
Chris

[TeamDesktop]

Hello Chris,

Thank you for your interest in our forum !

In answer to your question, it very much depends on the kind of desktop technology that you are using.

The short answer is that in VDI, the clients GPU does nothing to help the graphics/end user performance precisely because all of the processing is done on the server.

If however you look at hybrid VDI technologies such as Wanova or DiscCloud, then they depend on the clients GPU to perform all of the graphic intensive processing on the client. Hardware based PCoIP is also an excellent option if you absolutely need that graphic performance over the WAN.

If you are wanting to perform graphics intensive applications on your desktops, then we would advise you to forget VDI for now and focus on alternative desktop technologies such as the client-side and hybrid desktop virtualization technologies we mention above.

Does this help answer your question ?

Regards,

Team Desktop