Intel Data Center GPU Flex Series for the Intelligent Visual Cloud launched

Delivering 5x media transcode throughput performance and up to 68 simultaneous cloud gaming streams, Flex Series GPU is designed to meet the requirements for intelligent visual cloud workloads.

The Intel® Data Center GPU Flex Series (formerly code-named Arctic Sound-M) helps free customers from the constraints of siloed and proprietary environments and reduces the need for data centers to use separate, discrete solutions.

Intel offers customers a single graphics processing (GPU) solution built to flexibly handle a wide range of workloads without compromising on performance or quality. It also helps lower and optimizes the total cost of ownership for diverse cloud workloads like media delivery, cloud gaming, AI, metaverse, and other emerging visual cloud use cases.

Powered by Intel’s X^e-HPG architecture and backed by an expansive ecosystem of hardware vendors and software developers, these GPUs provide flexible scaling of AI inference workloads from media analytics to smart cities to medical imaging between CPUs and GPUs without locking developers into proprietary software. 

Media processing and delivery: The video processing demands of video conferencing, streaming, and social media have transformed the compute resource requirements of the data center.

• The Flex Series GPU media architecture, powered by up to four Xe Media Engines, focuses on the highest stream density demands for the modern data center without compromising quality
• The Flex Series GPU’s hardware-based, open-source AV1 encoder delivers more than 30% bandwidth savings6. The Flex Series GPU’s media engine also supports and improves performance for broad range of industry codecs, including HEVC, AVC and VP9.
• Leveraging Intel® Deep Link Hyper Encode feature, the Intel® Data Center GPU Flex Series 140 with two devices on a single card can meet the industry’s one-second delay requirement while providing 8K60 real-time transcode7. This capability is available for AV1 and HEVC HDR formats.

Android cloud gaming: The Flex Series GPU is built for high gameplay quality, delivering an unparalleled gaming experience across different devices. It is validated on nearly 90 of the most popular Google Play Android game titles.

• A single Flex Series 170 GPU can achieve up to 68 streams of 720p30 while a single Flex Series 140 GPU can achieve up to 46 streams of 720p30 (measured on select game titles).
• When scaled with six Flex Series 140 GPU cards, it can achieve up to 216 streams of 720p30.

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