ThinkSystem 4X67A86130 Intel Flex 140 12GB Gen4 Passive GPU User Guide

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ThinkSystem Intel Flex 140 12GB Gen4 Passive GPU

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ThinkSystem Intel Flex 140 12GB Gen4 Passive GPU
Product Guide
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.

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.

ThinkSystem Intel Flex 140 12GB Gen4 Passive GPU

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

Table 1. Ordering information

Part number 4X67A86130

Feature code Description

BU00

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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.

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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 GPU Architecture GPUs per card Execution units Intel Xe Cores Media Engine Ray Tracing FP32 peak performance FP16 peak performance INT8 peak performance INT4 peak performance GPU Memory Memory Bandwidth Virtualization (SR-IOV) System Interface Form Factor Max Power Consumption Thermal Solution Encoding and decoding

Flex 140 Xe HPG 2 256 (128 per GPU) 16 cores (8 per GPU) 4 (2 per GPU) 16 RT units 8 TFLOPS 52 TFLOPS 105 TOPS 210 TOPS 12 GB ECC GDDR6 (6 GB per GPU) 336 GB/s (168 GB/s per GPU) 62 Virtual Functions (VFs) PCIe Gen 4, x8 lanes (x16 mechanical) PCIe low profile, single width 75 W Passive
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.

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Description

Part Number

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)

4S Dense V2 V2 8S 4S V1 1S Intel V1

Table 5. Server support (Part 3 of 4)

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Description

Part Number

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) SR670 V2 (7Z22 / 7Z23) SR635 (7Y98 / 7Y99) SR655 (7Y00 / 7Z01) SR655 Client OS SR645 (7D2Y / 7D2X) SR665 (7D2W / 7D2V)

AMD V1

V2 2S Intel V2

Computing

1S Intel

Super

Table 4. Server support (Part 2 of 4)

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Description

Part Number

SE350 (7Z46 / 7D1X) SE350 V2 (7DA9) SE360 V2 (7DAM) SE450 (7D8T) SE455 V3 (7DBY) ST250 V3 (7DCF / 7DCE) SR250 V3 (7DCM / 7DCL) SR635 V3 (7D9H / 7D9G) SR655 V3 (7D9F / 7D9E) SR645 V3 (7D9D / 7D9C) SR665 V3 (7D9B / 7D9A) SR675 V3 (7D9Q / 7D9R) ST650 V3 (7D7B / 7D7A) SR630 V3 (7D72 / 7D73) SR650 V3 (7D75 / 7D76) SR850 V3 (7D97 / 7D96) SR860 V3 (7D94 / 7D93) SR950 V3 (7DC5 / 7DC4) SD530 V3 (7DDA / 7DD3) SD550 V3 (7DD9 / 7DD2)

Multi Node

Intel V3

AMD V3

Edge

Table 3. Server support (Part 1 of 4)

Table 6. Server support (Part 4 of 4)

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)

Part Number Description 4X67A86130 ThinkSystem Intel Flex 140 12GB Gen4 Passive GPU

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Software stack
The Flex Series GPU supports an open, flexible, standards-based software stack with oneAPI crossarchitecture 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.

ThinkSystem Intel Flex 140 12GB Gen4 Passive GPU

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

ThinkSystem Intel Flex 140 12GB Gen4 Passive GPU

SD530 V3 SD550 V3

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 Microsoft Windows Server 2022 VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 7.0 U3

YY YY

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 publications

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Related publications
For more information, refer to these documents:
ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile GPU Summary: https://lenovopress.lenovo.com/lp0768-thinksystem-thinkagile-gpu-summary ServerProven compatibility: https://serverproven.lenovo.com/ Intel Data Center GPU Flex Series product page: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/discrete-gpus/data-center-gpu/flexseries.html Intel oneAPI: https://intel.com/oneapi
Related product families
Product families related to this document are the following:
GPU adapters

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