HPE Compute XD690 vs NVIDIA HGX B300 8-GPU
Accelerator configuration, aggregate memory, bandwidth and power, side by side.
Specifications
| Specification | HPE Compute XD690 | NVIDIA HGX B300 8-GPU |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | HPE | NVIDIA |
| Part number | S6G97A | — |
| Form factor | rack | baseboard |
| Released | 2025 | 2025 |
| Accelerator | 8x B300 | 8x B300 |
| Aggregate memory | 2.1 TB | 2.1 TB |
| Aggregate bandwidth | 64.0 TB/s | 64.0 TB/s |
| System power | 14.3 kW | — |
| Interconnect | NVLink 5.0 / NVSwitch 4.0 across the HGX B300 baseboard; 8x NVIDIA ConnectX-8 for InfiniBand XDR or Spectrum-X Ethernet scale-out | NVLink 5.0 / NVSwitch 4.0 |
Rows shown in grey are identical between the two.
HPE Compute XD690
A 10U air-cooled single-node chassis carrying eight NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra SXM6 GPUs on the HGX B300 baseboard, which HPE names directly in the orderable part S6A37A. Two Intel Xeon 6 processors with P-cores drive it, either the 6776P or the 6767P, both 64-core at 350 W, with up to 32 DDR5 DIMMs and a minimum system memory of 2,048 GB running at 5,200 MT/s in the two-DIMM-per-channel configuration HPE recommends for performance. Scale-out is eight ConnectX-8 adapters supporting InfiniBand XDR or Spectrum-X Ethernet, with storage of eight E1.S drives and two M.2. Power comes from twelve fixed 3,200 W Titanium supplies in an N+N redundant arrangement, and HPE rates the machine at 14.3 kW continuous and 16.4 kW peak. Air cooling a Blackwell Ultra system of this density is unusual and it shows in the mechanicals: the chassis weighs 226 kg, ships pre-racked by default, and HPE requires a server lift on site before its engineers will service it. HPE describes it as delivering 50 percent higher FP4 performance than the prior Blackwell generation but publishes no FLOPS figure of its own, so the compute shown is NVIDIA's specification for the HGX B300 board rather than an HPE claim.
Vendor product pageNVIDIA HGX B300 8-GPU
The eight-GPU Blackwell Ultra baseboard OEMs build around. NVIDIA publishes both a dense and a sparse figure for every tensor precision here, and for FP4 the two are not a factor of two apart: dense rose by half over the B200, from 72 to 108 PFLOPS, while sparse stayed at 144. Total memory is NVIDIA's own 2.1 TB rather than the 2.304 TB that eight 288 GB GPUs would suggest. Memory bandwidth of 64 TB/s is the one derived number, being eight times the B300's published 8 TB/s, because NVIDIA gives no board-level HBM figure. No INT8 row is recorded: NVIDIA's table gives 3 POPS sparse for this board while our B300 chip entry implies 36 POPS dense, the two cannot both be right, and the question is open rather than guessed at. NVIDIA publishes no baseboard power figure, so total power is blank.
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