NVIDIA Silicon Photonics
Co-packaged optics-based networking switches with unmatched power efficiency and resiliency.
Introduction
Revolutionizing Networking for the Era of Agentic AI
NVIDIA’s co-packaged optics (CPO) switches with integrated silicon photonics are the world’s most advanced networking solution for the era of agentic AI. Replacing pluggable transceivers with silicon photonics on the same package as the ASIC, NVIDIA CPO innovations provide 3.5x better power efficiency and 10x higher network resiliency resulting in 5x sustained application runtime.
NVIDIA CPO-based networks simplify manageability and design and enable more efficient-compute infrastructure. These benefits are critical to delivering the scale needed to enter the future of million-GPU AI factories.
NVIDIA Co-Packaged Optics Explained
Take a look inside the new NVIDIA silicon photonics-based networking switches.
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Networking for Massive-Scale Infrastructure
NVIDIA CPO introduces many benefits that are necessary to scale to millions of GPU AI factories.
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NVIDIA Silicon Photonics Switches
NVIDIA Quantum-X Photonics Switch
The NVIDIA Quantum-X800 platform is expanding to include new CPO-based switches, the first of which is the Q3450-LD with 144 ports of 800 gigabits-per-second (Gb/s) InfiniBand. This groundbreaking switch leverages a liquid-cooled design to efficiently cool the onboard silicon photonics. The NVIDIA Quantum-X Photonics InfiniBand switch supports new network innovations to deliver unprecedented scale, connecting over 10,000 GPUs in a non-blocking two-level fat-tree topology.
NVIDIA Spectrum-X Photonics Switches
NVIDIA’s Spectrum-X Photonics switches usher in the next era of AI infrastructure by integrating co-packaged optics (CPO) directly onto the ASIC, overcoming the limits of electrical signaling in large-scale AI factories. With up to 512 ports at 800 Gb/s for a total of 409.6 Tb/s bandwidth, Spectrum-X Photonics enables massive generative AI workloads. Available in the second half of 2026, it sets a new standard for scalable, energy-efficient Ethernet networks that power million-GPU AI clusters.
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