VMware Horizon with Intel® Data Center GPU Flex Series
April 23, 2024
With the continued popularity of VDI being used in HCI environments, companies are expected to invest in this technology for the foreseeable future. Intel’s newest generation of the Platinum series CPU, 8562Y+ provides the better overall performance and cost per user than the 8462Y+. The newest 5th generation Xeon Platinum processors provide more CPU headroom to enable more users running more CPU intensive applications or increase the performance of the existing infrastructure.
Additionally, adding Intel Flex 140 GPU cards can enhance users experience, particularly for graphic intensive workloads while offloading the CPU resources for other tasks. Most importantly, these benefits can be obtained for an insignificant increase of approximately 1% of the total configuration cost.
Specifically, the use of Intel Datacenter Flex 140 GPUs can significantly improve the graphics performance for users while lowering CPU usage, freeing up resources for other users. Individual users seeing a nearly 4x increase in FPS in graphics intensive applications while using ~35% less CPU is no trivial data point. With CPU usage dropping by ~40% across all GPU users during graphics intensive applications, it is obvious why the use of GPUs is important for companies with users that need higher graphics performance.
These important takeaways lead to the conclusion that using Xeon Platinum CPUs along with Flex 140 GPUs can provide high performance for both CPU and GPU needs. For companies looking to increase their VDI performance capabilities, increase their VDI capacity, or add higher graphics performance for users that need it, the newer generation of Intel Xeon CPUs along with Flex 140 GPUs offer a clear method of meeting these needs cost effectively.
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