HPE Compute XD690 vs QCT QuantaGrid D75H-10U
Both are built on the NVIDIA HGX B300 8-GPU 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 | HPE Compute XD690 | QCT QuantaGrid D75H-10U |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | HPE | QCT |
| Part number | S6G97A | D75H-10U |
| Form factor | rack | rack |
| Released | 2025 | — |
| Accelerator | 8x B300 | 8x B300 |
| Aggregate memory | 2.1 TB | — |
| Aggregate bandwidth | 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 | One NVIDIA HGX B300 8-GPU baseboard; scale-out is eight ConnectX-8 OSFP ports carrying 800G Ethernet or InfiniBand at one port per GPU for GPU-Direct RDMA |
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 pageQCT QuantaGrid D75H-10U
QCT's 10U Blackwell Ultra server, built on the NVIDIA HGX B300 platform with two Intel Xeon 6 processors. Networking is eight ConnectX-8 OSFP ports at 800G, one per accelerator, for one-to-one GPU-Direct RDMA, and there is room for four full-height full-length PCIe Gen 5 slots. QCT quotes 72 PFLOPS of FP8 and 144 PFLOPS of FP4 without saying whether either is dense or sparse. Both match NVIDIA's sparse figures for this baseboard exactly, and neither matches the dense figures of 36 and 108, so they are recorded as sparse. Worth noting QCT calls the FP8 number a training figure, which would normally imply dense; the number itself settles the basis, not the label. Power is twelve 3,200 W supplies in N+N redundancy, which is capacity rather than draw, so no system power is shown.
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