Question

Your company is deploying a pooled AVD host pool to support engineers who use GPU-accelerated CAD applications. You have selected the NCasT4_v3-series VM size for the session hosts. After provisioning the session hosts from a standard Windows 11 Enterprise multi-session image, users report that the applications run slowly and do not appear to use the GPU. What must you do to enable GPU acceleration for the session hosts?

Accepted Answer

Install the appropriate NVIDIA GPU driver by deploying the NVIDIA GPU Driver VM extension, then configure GPU-accelerated app rendering and encoding via Group Policy or the registry

Answer

Change the host pool load-balancing algorithm to depth-first so the GPU is dedicated to fewer users per host

Answer

Enable RDP Shortpath for managed networks so GPU frames are transmitted over UDP

Answer

Resize the session hosts to a memory-optimized E-series VM size and re-run the AVD agent installation