NVIDIA Mellanox ConnectX-7 MCX713106AS-CEAT

The NVIDIA Mellanox ConnectX-7 MCX713106AS-CEAT is a dual-port 100GbE smart network adapter pairing a PCIe 5.0 x16 host interface with QSFP112 connectivity for up to 200Gb/s of aggregate Ethernet bandwidth. As part of NVIDIA's seventh-generation ConnectX family, the card delivers hardware-accelerated RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE v2) for low-latency, CPU-offloaded data movement, suited to GPU-accelerated AI clusters, distributed storage, and high-performance computing fabrics. The MCX713106AS-CEAT includes Secure Boot with hardware root-of-trust to protect adapter firmware integrity, but omits the inline crypto engine found on the AC variant, making it a cost-optimized choice where encryption is handled elsewhere in the infrastructure stack. ConnectX-7's ASAP2 virtual switching acceleration, adaptive routing, congestion control, and GPUDirect RDMA/Storage support round out the feature set, letting the adapter serve virtualized multi-tenant infrastructure as well as latency-sensitive AI/ML pipelines. It ships in a standard-height, stand-up PCIe form factor for broad server compatibility.