ASUS ESC N8-E11 vs QCT QuantaGrid D75F-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 D75F-7U |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | ASUS | QCT |
| Part number | — | D75F-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, which QCT notes is seven times the bandwidth of PCIe Gen 5; two BlueField-3 DPUs handle networking |
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 D75F-7U
QCT's 7U Hopper machine, with two fifth or fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and eight NVIDIA HGX H200 GPUs linked at 900 GB/s over NVLink. Storage is eighteen small-form-factor all-NVMe bays for GPU-Direct Storage plus a boot drive, and two NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs offload networking. QCT gives 1.1 TB of aggregate high-bandwidth memory. It also quotes over 32 petaflops of FP8, which is not shown here: QCT does not say whether that is dense or sparse, it is close to double the dense figure NVIDIA published for this baseboard, and NVIDIA no longer lists the H200 on its HGX page, so there is no way to settle which column it belongs in without guessing. Power is four-plus-two 4,000 W Titanium supplies, which is capacity rather than draw.
Vendor product page