Dell PowerEdge XE9680 vs HPE Cray XD670
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 | Dell PowerEdge XE9680 | HPE Cray XD670 |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Dell | HPE |
| Part number | PowerEdge XE9680 | — |
| Form factor | rack | rack |
| Released | 2024 | 2024 |
| Accelerator | 8x H200 | 8x H200 |
| Aggregate memory | 1.1 TB | 1.1 TB |
| Aggregate bandwidth | 38.4 TB/s | 38.4 TB/s |
| System power | — | — |
| Interconnect | NVSwitch + NVLink | NVIDIA NVLink with NVSwitch across the eight SXM modules |
Rows shown in grey are identical between the two.
Dell PowerEdge XE9680
6U rack server built on the NVIDIA HGX H200 baseboard. Two Intel Xeon Scalable sockets (4th or 5th Gen, up to 64 cores each), 32 DDR5 DIMM slots to a 4 TB maximum, and 2800W Titanium redundant hot-swap power supplies. The same chassis is also orderable with 8x H100 80GB, 8x AMD Instinct MI300X 192GB or 8x Intel Gaudi3 128GB; Dell does not list a B200 option. System-level power draw is not published, so only the baseboard figure on the HGX H200 reference page is authoritative.
Vendor product pageHPE Cray XD670
A 5U server carrying eight NVIDIA H200 SXM GPUs at 700 W each with 141 GB of HBM3e apiece, driven by a single two-socket node of 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors at up to 400 W, with 32 DDR5 DIMMs across eight channels per socket at up to 5,600 MHz. It is air cooled with a direct liquid cooling option. HPE has taken six first-place results with it in MLPerf Inference v5.1, including computer vision and LLM chat and text generation. Two things this row deliberately does not claim: HPE describes the GPUs only as "8x NVIDIA H200 SXM" and never names the HGX baseboard, though eight H200 SXM at 700 W is precisely the HGX H200 8-GPU configuration, and the compute figures shown are NVIDIA's for that baseboard rather than any HPE claim; and HPE publishes component TDPs but no system power figure, so total power is left blank rather than summing 8 x 700 W and 2 x 400 W, which would count silicon only and understate the machine. Part numbers are also not recorded, since none appears on HPE's page.
Vendor product page