Dell PowerEdge XE9680 vs Supermicro GPU SuperServer AS -8125GS-TNHR (HGX H200)
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 | Supermicro GPU SuperServer AS -8125GS-TNHR (HGX H200) |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Dell | Supermicro |
| Part number | PowerEdge XE9680 | AS -8125GS-TNHR |
| 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 between GPUs; PCIe 5.0 x16 CPU-to-GPU |
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 pageSupermicro GPU SuperServer AS -8125GS-TNHR (HGX H200)
Supermicro's 8U AMD EPYC platform for the NVIDIA HGX H200 8-GPU baseboard, and the EPYC sibling of the Intel-based SYS-821GE-TNHR. Two SP5 sockets take AMD EPYC 9004 processors up to 128 cores and 256 threads at up to 400 W each, air cooled, with 24 DIMM slots supporting up to 6 TB of DDR5. GPUs connect to the CPUs over PCIe 5.0 x16 and to each other over NVLink with NVSwitch, and the chassis provides eight NICs for GPU-direct RDMA at a 1:1 ratio with the GPUs. The CSE-GP801TS chassis is 8U, weighs 102.1 kg gross, takes up to ten heavy-duty fans and six 3000 W Titanium supplies in 3+3 redundancy. Compute is identical to the H100 configuration because H100 and H200 are the same silicon at the same clocks; the difference is memory, 1.128 TB of HBM3e here against 0.64 TB. Supermicro publishes no FLOPS figure for this system; the compute shown is NVIDIA's for the HGX H200 baseboard it carries. Supermicro publishes no system power draw either, only the supply configuration, so total power is left blank.
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