Data Center GPU Flex 170: specs and benchmarks
Summary
Intel started Data Center GPU Flex 170 sales 24 August 2022. This is a Generation 12.7 architecture desktop card based on 6 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 16 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 2 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 512.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. 1x 8-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 150 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Data Center GPU Flex 170: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Generation 12.7 (2022−2023) | |
| GPU code name | DG2-512 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 24 August 2022 (2 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Data Center GPU Flex 170's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Data Center GPU Flex 170's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 4096 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 1950 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Boost clock speed | 2050 MHz | of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 21,700 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 6 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 150 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 524.8 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 16.79 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 128 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 256 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Ray Tracing Cores | 32 | of 170 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Data Center GPU Flex 170 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 8-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Data Center GPU Flex 170: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR6 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 16 GB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 2000 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 512.0 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Data Center GPU Flex 170. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 2.0 | |
| HDMI | + |
API compatibility
APIs supported by Data Center GPU Flex 170, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | |
| Shader Model | 6.6 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.3 |
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