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ThinkSystem Intel Flex 140 12GB Gen4 Passive GPU

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Abstract

The ThinkSystem Intel Flex 140 12GB Gen4 Passive GPU is a general-purpose GPU optimized for media stream density and quality. It is designed for data center and edge applications, with high levels of reliability, availability, and scalability.

This product guide provides essential presales information to understand the Flex 140 GPU and its key features, specifications, and compatibility. This guide is intended for technical specialists, sales specialists, sales engineers, IT architects, and other IT professionals who want to learn more about the Flex 140 GPU and consider its use in IT solutions.

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Changes in the March 6, 2024 update:

Introduction

The ThinkSystem Intel Flex 140 12GB Gen4 Passive GPU is a general-purpose GPU optimized for media stream density and quality. It is designed for data center and edge applications, with high levels of reliability, availability, and scalability. The GPU is suitable for media processing and delivery, Windows and Android cloud gaming, virtualized desktop infrastructure (VDI), and AI visual inference applications.

The Intel Data Center GPU Flex 140 suitable for workloads that involve lighter AI models, such as simple object detection. Due to the higher number of video engines, the Flex Series 140 GPU can support a high number of streams.

 

ThinkSystem Intel Flex 140 12GB Gen4 Passive GPU
Figure 1. ThinkSystem Intel Flex 140 12GB Gen4 Passive GPU

Did you know?

The Intel Flex Series GPUs support 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.

Part number information

The following table shows the ordering information for the Flex 140 GPU.

Table 1. Ordering information
Part number Feature code Description
4X67A86130 BU00 ThinkSystem Intel Flex 140 12GB Gen4 Passive GPU

The option part number includes the following:

  • One Flex 140 GPU
  • Low profile (2U) and full-height (3U) adapter brackets
  • Documentation

Features

Intel Data Center GPU Flex Series is a flexible, robust, and the industry's most open GPU solution for the intelligent visual cloud. The GPUs support a diverse range of workloads in the industry starting with media streaming and cloud gaming, followed by support for AI visual inference and virtual desktop Infrastructure workloads. It supports an open, standards-based software stack optimized for density and quality with critical server capabilities for high reliability, availability, and scalability. This helps reduce the need for data centers to use disparate solutions and manage heterogenous or proprietary environments.

The ThinkSystem Intel Flex 140 12GB Gen4 Passive GPU offers the following features:

  • 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.

  • No Licensing Fees

    Intel provides free virtual GPU software license to customers for lowering their total cost of ownership in VDI deployments. Furthermore, this can act as a catalyst to accelerate the GPU adoption rate in VDI deployments where graphics & encode accelerations are desired/preferred but can often be cost prohibitive.

  • Flexible vGPU Management

    The Intel Data Center GPU Flex Series supports multiple vGPU configuration & scheduling options for VDI solutions to meet different customer workload and QoS requirements—such as Linux KVM open-source virtualization technology and VMware ESXi. It also supports both VMware Horizon and Citrix DaaS† on top. The Flex Series accelerators have strong ecosystem support. The top two industry leading desktop & application virtualization solutions, VMware Horizon and Citrix DaaS, will be supported.

  • Flexible Performance

    The Flex 140 accelerator has two GPUs on a single card, supporting heterogeneous vGPU profiles. Having fewer virtual machines per GPU contributes to more predictable quality of service, shorter GPU scheduling queues, and strong performance isolation across machines. Smaller physical cards and fewer virtual machines means you can cover a variety of user needs more economically.

  • High Density Virtual Desktop

    The Intel Data Center GPU Flex 140 is ideal for VDI deployments targeting knowledge workers persona - office productivity, video, and browser workloads whose graphics and compute performance requirements are low.

Technical specifications

The following table lists the specifications of the Flex 140 GPU.

Table 2. Specifications
Feature Flex 140
GPU Architecture Xe HPG
GPUs per card 2
Execution units 256 (128 per GPU)
Intel Xe Cores 16 cores (8 per GPU)
Media Engine 4 (2 per GPU)
Ray Tracing 16 RT units
FP32 peak performance 8 TFLOPS
FP16 peak performance 52 TFLOPS
INT8 peak performance 105 TOPS
INT4 peak performance 210 TOPS
GPU Memory 12 GB ECC GDDR6 (6 GB per GPU)
Memory Bandwidth 336 GB/s (168 GB/s per GPU)
Virtualization (SR-IOV) 62 Virtual Functions (VFs)
System Interface PCIe Gen 4, x8 lanes (x16 mechanical)
Form Factor PCIe low profile, single width
Max Power Consumption 75 W
Thermal Solution Passive
Encoding and decoding
  • H.264 Hardware Encode/Decode
  • H.265 (HEVC) Hardware Encode/Decode
  • AV1 Encode/Decode
  • VP9 Bitstream & Decoding

Server support

The following tables list the ThinkSystem servers that are compatible.

Table 3. Server support (Part 1 of 4)
Part Number Description 2S AMD V3 2S Intel V3 4S 8S Intel V3 Multi Node GPU Rich 1S V3
SR635 V3 (7D9H / 7D9G)
SR655 V3 (7D9F / 7D9E)
SR645 V3 (7D9D / 7D9C)
SR665 V3 (7D9B / 7D9A)
ST650 V3 (7D7B / 7D7A)
SR630 V3 (7D72 / 7D73)
SR650 V3 (7D75 / 7D76)
SR850 V3 (7D97 / 7D96)
SR860 V3 (7D94 / 7D93)
SR950 V3 (7DC5 / 7DC4)
SD535 V3 (7DD8 / 7DD1)
SD530 V3 (7DDA / 7DD3)
SD550 V3 (7DD9 / 7DD2)
SR670 V2 (7Z22 / 7Z23)
SR675 V3 (7D9Q / 7D9R)
SR680a V3 (7DHE)
SR685a V3 (7DHC)
ST250 V3 (7DCF / 7DCE)
SR250 V3 (7DCM / 7DCL)
4X67A86130 ThinkSystem Intel Flex 140 12GB Gen4 Passive GPU N N N N N N N N N N N 1 2 N N N N N N
Table 4. Server support (Part 2 of 4)
Part Number Description Edge Super Computing 1S Intel V2 2S Intel V2
SE350 (7Z46 / 7D1X)
SE350 V2 (7DA9)
SE360 V2 (7DAM)
SE450 (7D8T)
SE455 V3 (7DBY)
SD665 V3 (7D9P)
SD665-N V3 (7DAZ)
SD650 V3 (7D7M)
SD650-I V3 (7D7L)
SD650-N V3 (7D7N)
ST50 V2 (7D8K / 7D8J)
ST250 V2 (7D8G / 7D8F)
SR250 V2 (7D7R / 7D7Q)
ST650 V2 (7Z75 / 7Z74)
SR630 V2 (7Z70 / 7Z71)
SR650 V2 (7Z72 / 7Z73)
4X67A86130 ThinkSystem Intel Flex 140 12GB Gen4 Passive GPU N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N
Table 5. Server support (Part 3 of 4)
Part Number Description AMD V1 Dense V2 4S V2 8S 4S V1 1S Intel V1
SR635 (7Y98 / 7Y99)
SR655 (7Y00 / 7Z01)
SR655 Client OS
SR645 (7D2Y / 7D2X)
SR665 (7D2W / 7D2V)
SD630 V2 (7D1K)
SD650 V2 (7D1M)
SD650-N V2 (7D1N)
SN550 V2 (7Z69)
SR850 V2 (7D31 / 7D32)
SR860 V2 (7Z59 / 7Z60)
SR950 (7X11 / 7X12)
SR850 (7X18 / 7X19)
SR850P (7D2F / 2D2G)
SR860 (7X69 / 7X70)
ST50 (7Y48 / 7Y50)
ST250 (7Y45 / 7Y46)
SR150 (7Y54)
SR250 (7Y52 / 7Y51)
4X67A86130 ThinkSystem Intel Flex 140 12GB Gen4 Passive GPU N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N
Table 6. Server support (Part 4 of 4)
Part Number Description 2S Intel V1 Dense V1
ST550 (7X09 / 7X10)
SR530 (7X07 / 7X08)
SR550 (7X03 / 7X04)
SR570 (7Y02 / 7Y03)
SR590 (7X98 / 7X99)
SR630 (7X01 / 7X02)
SR650 (7X05 / 7X06)
SR670 (7Y36 / 7Y37)
SD530 (7X21)
SD650 (7X58)
SN550 (7X16)
SN850 (7X15)
4X67A86130 ThinkSystem Intel Flex 140 12GB Gen4 Passive GPU N N N N N N N N N N N N

Software stack

The Flex Series GPU supports an open, flexible, standards-based software stack with oneAPI cross-architecture programming. The stack includes open source components and libraries, tools and frameworks so developers can create high-performance, cross-architecture media applications and solutions to meet a wide range of use cases. This open approach removes the barriers to proprietary models where code portability and the ability to adopt new architectures across multiple vendors is limited.

Intel enables the software ecosystem through industry collaborations, initiatives and standards bodies. It also provides ongoing leadership, investment and technical contributions to the open source community.

The common set of software capabilities integrates into popular middleware and frameworks, and the stack is delivered in validated productized containers or reference stacks. The containers can be orchestrated with Kubernetes on bare metal or in VMs using SR-IOV virtualization with tools to assign and manage workloads. The toolset is designed to speed time-to-market and enable flexible deployment of multiple workloads on the same GPU.

Software Stack for Intel® Data Center GPU Flex Series
Figure 2. Software Stack for Intel Data Center GPU Flex Series (source: intel.com)

The following components are part of the Intel oneAPI Base Toolkit (individual tools can be downloaded separately):

  • oneAPI Deep Neural Network Library (oneDNN)
  • oneAPI Data Analytics Library (oneDAL)
  • oneAPI Video Processing Library (oneVPL)
  • Intel VTune Profiler

The following Intel-optimized tools are part of the Intel AI Analytics Toolkit:

  • TensorFlow
  • PyTorch

For more information about Intel oneAPI, see https://intel.com/oneapi

Operating system support

The following table lists the supported operating systems:

Tip: These tables are automatically generated based on data from Lenovo ServerProven.

Table 7. Operating system support for ThinkSystem Intel Flex 140 12GB Gen4 Passive GPU, 4X67A86130
Operating systems
SD530 V3
SD550 V3
Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Y Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 7.0 U3 Y Y

Auxiliary power cable

The Flex 140 GPU does not require an auxiliary power cable.

Operating environment

The Flex 140 GPU has the following operating characteristics:

  • Ambient temperature
    • Operational: 0°C to 85°C
    • Storage: -40°C to 70°C
  • Relative humidity:
    • Operational: 5 to 85%
    • Storage: 5 to 90%

Physical specifications

The Flex 140 GPU has the following physical specifications:

  • Height: 69 mm (including edge connector)
  • Length: 168 mm
  • Width: 19 mm
  • Weight: 400 g

Warranty

One year limited warranty. When installed in a Lenovo server, the GPU assumes the server’s base warranty and any warranty upgrades.

Related product families

Product families related to this document are the following:

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