ASUS ESC N8-E11 vs QCT QuantaGrid D74F-7U
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 | QCT QuantaGrid D74F-7U |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | ASUS | QCT |
| Part number | — | D74F-7U |
| Form factor | rack | rack |
| Released | — | — |
| Accelerator | 8x H200 | 8x H200 |
| Aggregate memory | 1.1 TB | 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 | One NVIDIA HGX H200 baseboard connecting the eight GPUs at 900 GB/s over NVLink; one BlueField-3 DPU, with ten OCP 3.0 TSFF PCIe Gen5 x16 slots in place of the D75F's internal slots |
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 pageQCT QuantaGrid D74F-7U
The OCP-slot variant of QCT's 7U Hopper machine, carrying the same eight NVIDIA HGX H200 GPUs at 900 GB/s over NVLink and the same 1.1 TB of aggregate high-bandwidth memory as the D75F-7U. The differences are in I/O and packaging: one BlueField-3 DPU rather than two, ten OCP 3.0 TSFF PCIe Gen 5 slots, a shorter 886 mm chassis, and three-plus-three 4,000 W Titanium supplies. QCT quotes the same over 32 petaflops of FP8 figure, which is not shown here for the same reason as on the D75F: the basis is unstated and cannot be settled. Power figures are supply capacity, not draw.
Vendor product page