ASUS ESC NB8-E11 vs Inventec P9000G6 (LC)
Both are built on the NVIDIA HGX B200 8-GPU 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 NB8-E11 | Inventec P9000G6 (LC) |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | ASUS | Inventec |
| Part number | — | P9000G6 (LC) |
| Form factor | rack | rack |
| Released | — | — |
| Accelerator | 8x B200 | 8x B200 |
| Aggregate memory | 1.4 TB | — |
| Aggregate bandwidth | 64.0 TB/s | — |
| System power | — | — |
| Interconnect | NVIDIA NVLink with NVSwitch, 1,800 GB/s GPU-to-GPU; one-GPU-to-one-NIC topology with up to 8 NICs | One NVIDIA HGX B200 liquid-cooled baseboard; eight low-profile PCIe Gen5 x16 slots from the switch |
Rows shown in grey are identical between the two.
ASUS ESC NB8-E11
A 10U eight-GPU server built on the NVIDIA Blackwell HGX B200 baseboard, with dual 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors at 350 W and NVLink giving 1,800 GB/s directly between GPUs, twice the bandwidth of the Hopper-generation ESC N8-E11. It uses a dedicated one-GPU-to-one-NIC topology supporting up to eight NICs, and offers up to 11 PCIe slots, 32 DIMM slots, 10 NVMe bays and dual 10Gb LAN, with 5+1 80 PLUS Titanium supplies. Unlike many B200 platforms it is air-cooled, using dedicated CPU and GPU airflow tunnels, which is what accounts for the 10U height. ASUS publishes no FLOPS figure of its own, so the compute shown is NVIDIA's for the HGX B200 baseboard, including the sparse figures NVIDIA publishes for Blackwell. 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.
Vendor product pageInventec P9000G6 (LC)
The liquid-cooled Blackwell node in Inventec's range, an 8U chassis 448 by 352 by 850 mm carrying one NVIDIA HGX B200 baseboard with fourth or fifth generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors of up to 385 W. Liquid cooling saves two rack units against the air-cooled P9000AG7 and cuts the GPU fan count from fifteen to five. Storage and expansion match the air-cooled machine at eight U.2 NVMe bays from the switch, four more from the CPU, two M.2 and eight low-profile PCIe Gen5 x16 slots. Power is 3,300 W 54 V supplies in 3+3 redundancy with a 2,400 W 12 V host plane. Inventec publishes no throughput, memory or system power figure; the linked HGX B200 entry carries NVIDIA's. The GPU count is not stated and follows from NVIDIA's designation of HGX B200 as an eight-GPU baseboard.
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