Gigabyte G593-SD1-LAX3 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 | Gigabyte G593-SD1-LAX3 | QCT QuantaGrid D75F-7U |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Gigabyte | QCT |
| Part number | 6NG593SD1DR000LBX3 | D75F-7U |
| Form factor | rack | rack |
| Released | 2024 | — |
| 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 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.
Gigabyte G593-SD1-LAX3
A 5U direct-liquid-cooled server carrying the NVIDIA HGX H200 baseboard with eight SXM GPUs, connected at 900 GB/s by NVLink and NVSwitch. Both CPUs and GPUs are liquid cooled, which is what lets Gigabyte fit the platform into 5U rather than the 8U an air-cooled equivalent needs. Two LGA 4677 sockets take 5th or 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors or the Xeon CPU Max series, with 32 DIMM slots across eight DDR5 channels, eight Gen5 NVMe bays, twelve PCIe Gen5 x16 slots and BlueField-3 DPU compatibility. Power comes from four plus two redundant 3000 W Titanium supplies. It weighs 91 kg net and orders as 6NG593SD1DR000LBX3. Note that Gigabyte's page quotes "over 32 petaflops of FP8 deep learning compute" for an eight-way HGX H200; that is NVIDIA's own marketing figure for the baseboard rather than a Gigabyte measurement, and it is the sparse number. The dense figures shown here are NVIDIA's for the same baseboard, and they are what this site publishes throughout.
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