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AMD Alveo™ U30 Data Center Accelerator Card

The AMD Alveo™ U30 media accelerator card delivers real-time video transcoding at scale.

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Overview

AMD Alveo™ U30 media accelerator card provides the industry’s highest channel density, lowest cost per channel, and lowest power consumption for live video streaming workloads. When coupled with Video Software Developers Kit (SDK) from AMD the solution provides a production-ready platform for live streaming providers to benefit from AMD hardware acceleration with standards-based FFmpeg, GStreamer and APIs.

The U301 is available for live video transcoding in the cloud over Amazon EC2 VT1 instances or as a preconfigured appliance for on-premises deployment from our partners.

Key Features & Benefits

Features1

  • Small footprint – half-height, half-length
  • Low power ~18-25W typical
  • High density media processing: 112 x 1080p30 transcodes in real-time on a single appliance populated with 7 x Alveo U30 accelerators
  • HEVC (H.265), H.264 (AVC) & Adaptive Bit Rate (ABR) Scaling
  • Supports video resolutions from 128x128 to 3840x2160
  • Simultaneous decoding, scaling and encoding of up to 46 streams with max aggregated bandwidth of 2X4Kp60 per card
  • Faster-than-Real-Time (FTRT) feature enables a 60 minute 1080p60 quality video to be transcoded in 20 minutes on a single U30 accelerator
  • Xilinx Resource Manager (XRM) enables multiple video processing jobs to run across multiple Alveo U30 cards for seamless workload scaling Seamless FFmpeg, GStreamer and API integration

Built for Performance & Efficiency

  • A single U30 card can deliver two simultaneous 4kp60 or 32x 720p transcodes
  • H.264 & H.265 support with 8/10bit HDR capability
  • Highest density and better compression efficiency over ASIC or GPU solutions

Adaptable with Ease of Integration

  • Adaptive Bit Rate Video Transcoding
  • FFmpeg Video Support: Free and open-source project used by developers and software workflows
  • Simple API based on industry standard FFmpeg framework

Accessible - Cloud ↔ On-Premises Mobility

  • Built for scale out architectures for deployment solutions on the cloud or on-premises interchangeably

  • Board Specifications

    Width

    Single Slot

    Form Factor

    Half Height, Half Length

    PCI Express®

    Gen3 x8, 2 x Gen3 x42

  • Logic Resources*

    Look-Up Tables

    460K

    Registers

    920K

    DSP Slices

    3,456

    *Logic resources shown are without platform usage. User does not have access to these resources on the Alveo U30 card.

  • Video Support

    Video Codec Unit (VCU)

    Hardened

    Codec

    H.264 and H.265

    Video Transcodes per Card

    2 x 4kp60 | 8 x 1080p60 | 16 x 1080p30 | 32 x 720p30

  • Memory

    DDR Format

    2 x 4 GB 72b DDR4

    DDR Total Capacity

    8 GB

    DDR Max Data Rate

    2400 MT/s

    DDR Total Bandwidth

    38 GB/s

    Internal SRAM Total Capacity

    11 MB

    SRAM Total Bandwidth

    10 TB/s

  • Power and Thermal

    Thermal Cooling

    Passive

    Typical Power

    18-25W typical3

  • Tools Support and Solutions

    Vivado™ Design Suite

    No

    FFmpeg with AMD Video Plugins

    Yes

    Vitis™ Developer Environment

    No

    Solutions & Libraries

    Video Transcoding Solutions