ASUS ESC N8-E11 vs Penguin Solutions Relion XE5318GTS
Both are built on the NVIDIA HGX H200 baseboard, so their accelerator performance is identical rather than merely similar. The choice between them is chassis, cooling, expansion and supplier, not FLOPS.
What actually differs
| Specification | ASUS ESC N8-E11 | Penguin Solutions Relion XE5318GTS |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | ASUS | Penguin Solutions |
| Part number | — | Relion XE5318GTS |
| Form factor | rack | rack |
| Released | — | — |
| Accelerator | 8x H200 | 8x H200 |
| Aggregate memory | 1.1 TB | — |
| Aggregate bandwidth | 38.4 TB/s | — |
| System power | — | — |
| Interconnect | NVIDIA NVLink with NVSwitch, 900 GB/s GPU-to-GPU; one-GPU-to-one-NIC topology with up to 8 NICs | Penguin publishes no interconnect figure; expansion is 12x PCIe Gen5 x16 low profile and 1x PCIe Gen4 x16 low profile |
Rows shown in grey are identical between the two.
ASUS ESC N8-E11
A 7U eight-GPU server built on the NVIDIA HGX baseboard, with dual 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors at 350 W, NVLink giving 900 GB/s directly between GPUs, and a dedicated one-GPU-to-one-NIC topology supporting up to eight NICs. It offers up to 12 PCIe slots, 32 DIMM slots, 10 NVMe bays, dual 10Gb LAN and optional OCP 3.0, with 4+2 80 PLUS Titanium supplies and support for direct-to-chip liquid cooling alongside separate CPU and GPU airflow tunnels. ASUS offered it with either the HGX H100 or the HGX H200 baseboard; the figures here are for the H200 configuration. ASUS publishes no FLOPS figure of its own, so the compute shown is NVIDIA's for the HGX H200 baseboard this machine carries. Note that ASUS's detailed specification tab does not render server-side, so chassis dimensions, weight and power supply wattages could not be read and are deliberately absent rather than estimated.
Vendor product pagePenguin Solutions Relion XE5318GTS
The Penguin Solutions Relion XE5318GTS is a 5U GPU server carrying eight NVIDIA HGX H200 SXM5 modules of 141 GB each, hosted by 5th and 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors with 12x PCIe Gen5 x16 low profile and 1x PCIe Gen4 x16 low profile. The Intel-hosted Hopper machine, and the most expansion-heavy server in the range with thirteen slots. Penguin publishes only rack height, host processor, expansion slots and the accelerator for its servers, so no power draw, total memory, interconnect bandwidth or throughput figure is shown here; its full datasheets are hosted off its own domain and were not used as a source.
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