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General

Minimal configuration

  • GPU: Intel Arc A770 16 GB
  • RAM: 32 GB DDR4
  • Storage: 512 GB NVMe SSD
  • OS: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
  • Use case: 7B models via OpenVINO or IPEX-LLM
  • Recommended configuration

  • GPU: Intel Arc A770 16 GB ×2 or Intel Arc Pro A60
  • CPU: Intel Core i9-14900K or Xeon W-3400
  • RAM: 64 GB DDR5
  • Storage: 2 TB NVMe SSD
  • OS: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
  • Use case: 13B–30B models, OpenVINO-optimized pipelines
  • Premium configuration

  • GPU: Intel Data Center GPU Flex 170 or Max 1550
  • CPU: Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids or newer)
  • RAM: 128 GB ECC DDR5
  • Storage: 4 TB NVMe SSD
  • OS: RHEL 9 or Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
  • Use case: Enterprise inference, batch workloads, AVX-512 optimized serving