Introducing the
Smart VPU™
New category of video processing chip, based on ASIC technology, with AI.
Smart VPUs are different because they are extremely dense with remarkably low power consumption making them the smart hardware for live-streaming platforms to cut costs, AI-customize and scale profitably.
Massive Density Throughput
Cloud gaming platforms can now engage never-seen-before densities of 400 users per session. With an easy, drop-in upgrade path, Smart VPUs will exponentially increase your density throughput while slashing your hardware footprint reducing real estate requirements inside data centers.
Low Power Consumption
Smart VPUs require a fraction of the power than typical CPU-configurations. Less power requirements mean lower costs of operation. Greater density is achieved with a smaller hardware footprint further contributing to reducing power and maintenance expenses.
AI Powered
Smart VPUs encode video at lighting speeds and come AI-ready for your specific customizations including facial-priority enhancements and key object identification. Best part, storage occupies 80% less server space with AI-enhanced lossless compression.
Cut your streaming OPEX by 80%
Cost comparison supporting 100 HD streams, 24/7, across 3 video encoding scenarios, over a three year period.
Companies that converted their software encoding to Smart VPUs realized 75-85% savings in their data center’s OPEX expenses.
What it means?
If you have money to burn, deploy software encoders in a public cloud.
If you want to be profitable, conserve your cash by building a sustainable video streaming platform using Smart VPUs.
Our global customers are video content publishers and streaming platforms who require future-sustainable and AI-ready technology to deliver more for less.
Live Streaming Platforms
Get real-time, broadcast quality, high density encoding with 20X greater capacity while decreasing carbon emissions.
- Real Time Interactive
- Video Conference
Cloud Gaming Platforms
With a Smart VPU architecture, cloud gaming becomes financially viable supporting more players at the lowest cost per session.
- 360/VR/AR
- Virtual Worlds
Surveillance Platforms
Smart VPUs are AI-powered enabling advanced facial and object detection with lossless compression storage ideal for security providers.
- NVR Monitoring Surveilance
- Control Center Video Wall
This is why Google built a custom ASIC for YouTube
For everyone else who isn’t Google, we did the heavy lifting for you.
We developed commercially available Smart VPU cards for easy drop-in replacement and immediate deployment.
Less investment means more profit
Corporations spend 80% of their annual capital expenses running or renting space in enterprise data centers. When you run with Smart VPU hardware and bring your encoding inhouse, you reclaim 80% of operating costs previously spent renting cloud server space.
Powered by AI
Ideal for applications requiring massive data sorting in real-time such as security surveillance, live streaming and high volume throughput:
- Region of interest encoding
- Scene detection
- Background removal
- Video enhancement
- Facial recognition
- Object detection
VPUs are Green
In the graphic, lower numbers means less energy is required for the same workload. Environmentally speaking, the benefits of Smart VPU technology is profound. VPUs produce a tiny fraction of C02 emissions compared to any other technology.
Not only do Smart VPUs save your bottom line, but they save the planet too. That’s a win-win.
Smart VPU Products
Smart VPUs are engineered for live, high-volume streaming, interactive applications like cloud gaming and the metaverse. They’re smart, inexpensive, capable, flexible, and exceptionally efficient. Best of all, Smart VPUs offer a simple upgrade path with drop-in replacement into enterprise-class NVMe servers.
Here’s a glance at all NETINT ASIC VPU products:
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st Generation VPU | 2nd Generation Smart VPUs | |||||||
Modules | Server | Server | Modules | |||||
ASIC VPU
T408 | ASIC VPU
T432 | G4 VPU
Logan | G5 Smart VPU
Quadra | Smart VPU
T1U | Smart VPU
T1A | Smart VPU
T2A | ||
Performance | ||||||||
ASIC Codensity chip | G4 | G4 (4x) | G4, T408s (10x) | G5, T1Us (10x) | G5 | G5 | G5 (2x) | |
Price | $300 | $1,200 | starting at $7,000 | starting at $19,000 | $1,500 | $1,500 | $2,750 | |
Form Factor | U.2 | AIC, HHHL | 1RU Server | 1RU Server | U.2 | AIC, HHHL | AIC, HHHL | |
Power Consumption | 7W | 27W | ~400W | ~500W | 17W | 20W | 40W | |
Real-time Throughput Up to: | 8x 1080p30 2x 4Kp30 | 32x 1080p30 8x 4Kp30 | 80x 1080p30 20x 4Kp30 | 320x 1080p30 80x 4Kp30 20x 8Kp30 | 32x 1080p30 8x 4Kp30 2x 8Kp30 | 32x 1080p30 8x 4Kp30 2x 8Kp30 | 64x 1080p30 16x 4Kp30 4x 8Kp30 | |
Latency | 12.8 ms | 12.8 ms | 12.8 ms | 8 ms | 8 ms | 8 ms | 8 ms | |
Encode Codecs | H.264, HEVC, YUV | H.264, HEVC, JPEG, YUV, AV1 | ||||||
Decode Codecs | H.264, HEVC, YUV | H.264, HEVC, JPEG, YUV, VP9 | ||||||
Audio Codecs | n/a | MP3, AAC-LC, HE-AAC | ||||||
Features | ||||||||
Artificial Intelligence | n/a | n/a | n/a | 150 TOPS | 15 TOPS | 18 TOPS | 36 TOPS | |
New Capped CRF | ||||||||
Flexible GOP | ||||||||
Scaling | ||||||||
Cropping and Padding | ||||||||
Video Overlay | ||||||||
YUV / RGB Conversion | ||||||||
Configurable tuning of
quality/throughput | n/a | n/a | n/a | |||||
Feature supported on VPU
Feature runs on host CPU
| | | |
|---|---|---|---|
1st Generation VPU | |||
Modules | Server | ||
ASIC VPU
T408 | ASIC VPU
T432 | G4 VPU
Logan | |
Performance | |||
ASIC Codensity chip | G4 | G4 (4x) | G4, T408s (10x) |
Price | $300 | $1,200 | starting at $7,000 |
Form Factor | U.2 | AIC, HHHL | 1RU Server |
Power Consumption | 7W | 27W | ~400W |
Real-time Throughput Up to: | 8x 1080p30 2x 4Kp30 | 32x 1080p30 8x 4Kp30 | 80x 1080p30 20x 4Kp30 |
Latency | 12.8 ms | 12.8 ms | 12.8 ms |
Encode Codecs | H.264, HEVC, YUV | ||
Decode Codecs | H.264, HEVC, YUV | ||
Audio Codecs | n/a | ||
Features | |||
Artificial Intelligence | n/a | n/a | n/a |
New Capped CRF | |||
Flexible GOP | |||
Scaling | |||
Cropping and Padding | |||
Video Overlay | |||
YUV / RGB Conversion | |||
Configurable tuning of
quality/throughput | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Feature supported on VPU
Feature runs on host CPU
| | | | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2nd Generation Smart VPUs | ||||
Server | Modules | |||
G5 Smart VPU
Quadra | Smart VPU
T1U | Smart VPU
T1A | Smart VPU
T2A | |
Performance | ||||
ASIC Codensity chip | G5, T1Us (10x) | G5 | G5 | G5 (2x) |
Price | starting at $19,000 | $1,500 | $1,500 | $2,750 |
Form Factor | 1RU Server | U.2 | AIC, HHHL | AIC, HHHL |
Power Consumption | ~500W | 17W | 20W | 40W |
Real-time Throughput Up to: | 320x 1080p30 80x 4Kp30 20x 8Kp30 | 32x 1080p30 8x 4Kp30 2x 8Kp30 | 32x 1080p30 8x 4Kp30 2x 8Kp30 | 64x 1080p30 16x 4Kp30 4x 8Kp30 |
Latency | 8 ms | 8 ms | 8 ms | 8 ms |
Encode Codecs | H.264, HEVC, JPEG, YUV, AV1 | |||
Decode Codecs | H.264, HEVC, JPEG, YUV, VP9 | |||
Audio Codecs | MP3, AAC-LC, HE-AAC | |||
Features | ||||
Artificial Intelligence | 150 TOPS | 15 TOPS | 18 TOPS | 36 TOPS |
New Capped CRF | ||||
Peer-to-peer DMA | ||||
Cropping and Padding | ||||
Scaling | ||||
Video Overlay | ||||
Audio decode / encode | ||||
YUV / RGB Conversion | ||||
Configurable tuning of
quality/throughput | ||||
Feature supported on VPU
Feature runs on host CPU
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