Dell PowerEdge XE9680 vs Supermicro GPU SuperServer SYS-821GE-TNHR
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 SYS-821GE-TNHR |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Dell | Supermicro |
| Part number | PowerEdge XE9680 | SYS-821GE-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 | NVSwitch + NVLink |
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 SYS-821GE-TNHR
8U GPU SuperServer built on the NVIDIA HGX H200 baseboard with 4x NVSwitch. Two Intel Xeon Scalable sockets (4th or 5th Gen, up to 64 cores each at 350W, air-cooled), 32 DIMM slots to an 8 TB maximum of DDR5-5600 ECC RDIMM, 19 front hot-swap 2.5-inch NVMe/SATA bays plus two M.2 NVMe boot slots, and 8x PCIe Gen5 x16 low-profile slots with 2x FHHL. Also sold in an HGX H100 configuration. System-level power draw is not published.
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