Minimum Hardware Requirements to support MIG for RTX 6000 Pro Workstation Compute Mode

g352
Mon, 26 Jan 2026 22:58:28 +0000
NVIDIA Virtual GPU Technology

After some recent experimentation and research, I have not found explicit hardware requirements for a platform to support Compute (No Display) mode on RTX 6000 Pro Blackwell Workstation cards.

POST failures are seen on platforms that are found to be incompatible, requiring obtaining a compatible platform to reflash the cards back into display mode to allow POST.

I have seen reports of (and experienced) this in quite a few instances where end users must trial-and–error plugging the card into different machines until one is found that is compatible and does not induce POST failure in compute mode.

The general consensus found seems to be “don’t use old hardware”, but there does not seem to be a clear definition of what is “old” and what the “minimum requirements are”.

Is anyone able to point to a resource that lists what capabilities a platform must have to support Compute Mode? Even with Above 4G Decoding, ReBAR, SR-IOV, IOMMU, MMIO, etc. enabled, it seems to be a coin flip on whether or not a POST failure/incompatibility will be seen in compute mode.

Without the ability to enter compute mode, MIG shows as disabled.

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