Intel Announces Flex Series GPU Updated Software Packages

• 19 May 2023
• TM Team
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 ​Last year, the Intel Data Center GPU Flex Series introduced customers to a flexible, general-purpose graphics processing unit (GPU) for the data center and the intelligent visual cloud. Since its introduction, Intel has expanded the Intel Flex Series GPUs production-level software capabilities, including new support for Windows cloud gaming, AI inference and digital content creation.

As Flex Series GPU adoption grows in the market, customers, solution providers and developers are utilizing the hardware’s capabilities across many real-world scenarios:

·         Cloud service providers are deploying instances of Windows cloud gaming alongside streaming and media acceleration.

·         Media studios are testing and deploying Flex Series GPUs for high-density streaming and transcoding.

·         Digital content creators are using the platform for fast, real-time rendering using ray tracing hardware acceleration.

In particular, the addition of Windows cloud gaming allows the Flex Series GPU to address the growing gaming market. The rapid growth of the global cloud gaming market is estimated to reach a targeted market value of about $13.3 billion by 2028, with a projected compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of approximately 42.5% from 2022 to 2028.¹ Game service providers must continually innovate to deliver first-rate playing experiences to their subscribers while operating the most efficient infrastructure possible.

Intel’s new software capabilities for the Intel Flex Series GPU enable customers to realize new capabilities and gains across real-world workloads coupled with 3rd Gen and 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.

Windows Cloud Gaming: Intel provides a cloud gaming reference stack for Windows to show how to unleash Intel Flex Series for remote gaming, including how to enumerate and retarget multiple game titles to run concurrently on each of the multiple Flex Series adapters and two types of virtual displays. Intel Flex Series is optimized for DirectX 9, 11 and 12 render target capture and desktop capture.

Gamestream, a cloud game streaming solution, allows users to stream and play games on devices with high-end graphics across the entertainment, hospitality, media and telecom markets.

Olivier Lebigot, CTO at Gamestream, said, “One of our key challenges in cloud gaming is to find the right GPU to increase the overall concurrent users (CCU) number per server, while delivering the best end-user experience. We have been pleased to find that Intel Data Center GPU Flex Series 170 offers a high-density, low-power solution. During our tests, our reference CCU was improved by nearly 19% compared to our current hardware solution. This is a real asset for massive scaling.”