Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ Toolkit
System Requirements
Development Platforms
Processors
- 6th to 12th generation Intel® Core™ processors
- 1st to 3rd generation of Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
Compatible Operating Systems
- Ubuntu* 18.04 LTS (64 bit)
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (64 bit)
- Windows® 10 (64 bit)
- Windows* 11 (recommended for 12th generation Intel Core processors)
- Red Hat* Enterprise Linux* 8 (64 bit)
- macOS* 10.15 (64 bit)
Target System Platforms
CPU
Processors
- 6th to 12th generation Intel Core processors
- 1st to 3rd generation of Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
- Intel Atom® processor with Intel® Streaming SIMD Extensions 4.2 (Intel® SSE4.2)
Compatible Operating Systems
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (64 bit)
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (64 bit)
- Windows 10 (64 bit)
- Windows 11 (recommended for 12th generation Intel Core processors)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (64 bit)
- macOS 10.15 (64 bit)
- Yocto Project* Poky Zeus v3.0.x (64 bit)
GPU
Processors
- 6th to 12th generation Intel Core processor with Intel® Iris® Plus and Intel® Iris® Pro graphics and Intel® HD Graphics
- 11th generation Intel Core processor with Xe architecture
- Intel Xeon processor with Intel® Iris® Plus and Intel Iris Pro graphics and Intel HD Graphics (excluding the e5 family, which does not include graphics)
- Intel® Iris® Xe MAX Graphics
For more information, see the installation guides.
Compatible Operating Systems
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (64 bit)
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (64 bit)
- Windows 10 (64 bit)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (64 bit)
VPU
Supported Hardware
- Intel® Vision Accelerator Design with Intel® Movidius™ Vision Processing Unit (VPU)
For more information, see:
Overview of Intel® Neural Compute Stick 2
Overview of Intel Vision Accelerator Design
Compatible Operating Systems
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (64 bit)
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (64 bit)
- Windows 10 (64 bit)
Intel® Vision Accelerator Design
VPU
Supported Hardware
- Intel Vision Accelerator Design with Intel Movidius VPU
Compatible Operating Systems
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (64 bit)
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (64 bit)
- Windows 10 (64 bit)
Intel® Gaussian & Neural Accelerator (Intel® GNA)
Supported Hardware
- Intel® GNA
Note This coprocessor is not intended to replace classic inference devices such as CPUs, GPUs, or VPUs. It is designed for offloading continuous inference workloads.
Compatible Operating Systems
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (64 bit)
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (64 bit)
- Windows 10 (64 bit)
Additional Software Requirements
A Linux environment needs these components:
- CMake* 3.10 or higher for building samples
- GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)* , 7.5 (Ubuntu 18), 9.3 (Ubuntu 20), 8.3 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 )
Note: CMake 3.10 for samples.
A Windows environment needs these components:
- Microsoft Visual Studio* 2019 with Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild)
- CMake 3.14 or higher (64 bit) for building samples
Note: Graphics drivers are required only if you use a GPU.
A macOS environment needs these components:
- CMake 3.10 or higher for building samples
- Apple Xcode* Developer Software Command Line Tools (macOS can automatically download these tools the first time you try to build the software)
- (Optional) Apple Xcode IDE (useful for development)
Note For a list of components used in validation see the release notes.
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Product and Performance Information
Performance varies by use, configuration and other factors. Learn more at www.Intel.com/PerformanceIndex.