Intel Launches Flex Series GPUs for Game Streaming and Multimedia Servers

Although at the Intel Vision 2022 event we met them as Intel Arctic Sound-M, eventually the trade name for Intel data center graphics cards will be Intel Data Center GPU Flex Series and that’s it have arrived to its partners and manufacturers.

The Intel Flex they are based on the Intel Xe-HPG architecture and are oriented to data centers for multimedia streaming, Cloud Gaming, “Metaverse”, Artificial Intelligence and other tasks that require visual processing.

For example, Intel Data Center GPU Flex Series support android game streaming, with a validation to be able to run the 90 most popular games on the Google platform.

In Android cloud games, a Flex Series 170 manages to process 68 game streams at 720p with 30 FPS, while a Flex 140 it stays at 46 streams. Each Stream supposes a user remotely playing those games.

Its multiple GPU scaling capabilities allow you to place up to 6 Flex 140s and get 216 simultaneous streams of Android games through the cloud.

Like the desktop Intel Arc A380, these Intel Flex, with models such as the Intel Flex Series 140, have support for AV1 encoding in hardware with which they achieve five times the performance that an NVIDIA A10 can achieve when it comes to transcoding video. They duplicate the NVIDIA solution in video encoding, and all with half the consumption.

Companies like Dell, Lenovo, Supermicro, HPE, H3Ce Inspor will start selling them on their systems over the next few months on systems intended for Android cloud gaming. Systems for Windows Cloud Gaming and Artificial Intelligence will arrive later.

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