Intel® Data Center GPU Flex Series

The Intel® Data Center GPU Flex Series is a general-purpose GPU optimized for media stream density and quality. Infused with server capabilities, the product enables high levels of reliability, availability, and scalability.

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Intel® Data Center GPU Flex Series

Open Architecture

The Intel® Flex Series GPU supports an open, flexible, standards-based software stack together with oneAPI so developers can build high-performance, cross-architecture applications and solutions. This helps organizations reduce the complexity, cost, and time requirements to bring new solutions to market, enabling engineers and programmers to innovate instead of maintaining code.

Built-In AV1 Encode

Services built on the royalty-free open-source AV1 codec mean lowering operational expenses while providing higher video quality. Advanced video coding (AVC), High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), and VP9 support also comes standard with the Intel Data Center GPU.

The Power of More

5x

Media transcode throughput at half the power of the competition. Intel Flex Series 140 GPU compared to NVIDIA A10 HEVC 1080p601.

2x

Decode throughput at half the power of the competition. Intel Flex Series 140 GPU compared to NVIDIA A10 across HEVC, AV1, AVC, VP91.

Up to

68

720p30 on select game streams. Single Intel Flex Series 170 GPU1.

5x

Media transcode throughput at half the power of the competition. Intel Flex Series 140 GPU compared to NVIDIA A10 HEVC 1080p601.

2x

Decode throughput at half the power of the competition. Intel Flex Series 140 GPU compared to NVIDIA A10 across HEVC, AV1, AVC, VP91.

Up to

68

720p30 on select game streams. Single Intel Flex Series 170 GPU1.

Media Processing and Delivery

Today, video makes up over 80% of global Internet traffic2, and viewers expect broadcast quality with higher resolutions across a growing variety of devices. At the same time, new 5G networks are dramatically increasing the throughput for mobile customers.

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Cloud Gaming

With the global cloud gaming market expected to reach $3.2B by 2026, growing 43.2% from 2021 through 20263, service providers need to optimize TCO while meeting subscriber demands for superior experiences.

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AI Visual Inference

The growth in security and site monitoring cameras, live broadcast streams, and OTT video is driving demand for AI Visual Inference. The Intel Data Center GPU Flex Series is ideal for these workloads, including Smart City, Library indexing and compliance, and AI-guided video enhancement workloads.

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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is a mature market with an accelerated move toward the adoption of discrete graphics, as modern OSes and applications increasingly rely on GPU and media hardware acceleration.

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Software and Tools

Discover and get started with the open software ecosystem that is powering the industry’s most flexible GPU for the intelligent visual cloud.

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Product and Performance Information

1

Performance varies by use, configuration and other factors. Learn more at www.Intel.com/PerformanceIndex.

Performance results are based on testing as of dates shown in configurations and may not reflect all publicly available updates. See backup for configuration details. No product or component can be absolutely secure.

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2

Cisco Systems, “VNI Complete Forecast Highlights.” https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/m/en_us/solutions/service-provider/vni-forecast-highlights/pdf/Global_2021_Forecast_Highlights.pdf.

3

Research and Markets, January 4, 2022. “Insights on the Cloud Gaming Global Market to 2026 - Featuring Intel, Google and Microsoft Among Others.” https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2022/01/24/2371478/28124/en/Insights-on-the-Cloud-Gaming-Global-Market-to-2026-Featuring-Intel-Google-and-Microsoft-Among-Others.html.