Does anyone run Frigate OpenVino on an Intel Arc graphics card?

[WayneManion]

The title pretty much says it all. I have a Xeon system with an AMD graphics card running Linux. I won't buy an Nvidia card and I have been waiting forever and a day to be able to buy a Coral USB for MSRP.

Using an Intel A380 seems like an interesting alternative. Is anyone running Frigate OpenVino on one of these cards? In a VM with PCIe passthrough?

Thanks

[noloboy]

Were you able to get an answer to this? I'm on the same boat and wanted to know how intel arc gpus work with frigate both on transcoding and detection (open VINO)

[WayneManion]

I never did get an authoritative answer. I bought an Arc A380 for my Xeon box when it was on sale. I honestly wasn't sure if the card would work in my machine at all because my old motherboard doesn't support resizable BAR. The card works fine in my computer, but I haven't had any time/motivation to see if Frigate will work with it.

[WayneManion]

I was able to source a Google Coral for detection. I tried to use the Arc card for video acceleration, but encountered consistent crashes when enabling acceleration.

I ended up moving the Google Coral to another machine with Intel 8th Gen CPU with integrated graphics. That setup has worked flawlessly.

[Dvalin21]

Thanks for the reply

[Dvalin21]

I was able to source a Google Coral for detection. I tried to use the Arc card for video acceleration, but encountered consistent crashes when enabling acceleration.

I ended up moving the Google Coral to another machine with Intel 8th Gen CPU with integrated graphics. That setup has worked flawlessly.

I found something just if you were curious https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-Distribution-of-OpenVINO/Can-we-run-openvino-toolkit-on-AMD-CPU-with-Intel-Arc-770-GPU/m-p/1553103 I know you didn't have a AMD CPU, but apparently only certain Xeon CPUs are compatible? Not sure which one you had.

[WayneManion]

I was using a Xeon E5-2697 v4. This is a Broadwell-based (~2016) 18-core part with no integrated graphics. Some other series of Xeons are more similar to desktop chips and have integrated GPUs.

I was running the Xeon on an Asus X99 motherboard with no support for resizable bar (rebar). Intel's Arc graphics cards rely pretty heavily on rebar.

On Windows the performance in games drops like a rock on platforms without rebar support. The Linux driver may not be able to compensate for lack of rebar at all. The Linux Arc graphics driver just might not be very stable. I don't know. I know that all of the temperature monitoring features of Arc are totally missing on Linux. I realize that old Xeon on X99 with Intel Arc graphics running Linux is not a very common combination.

[Dvalin21]

Thanks for the info!!

[mrplow]

I'm planning on getting an Arc card for transcoding in my next server build later this year. I have a coral for detection so hopefully I won't run into any issues.
I don't see why it wouldn't work. Arc cards should work the same with openvino as Intel CPUs.