HPE Compute XD690 vs QCT QuantaGrid D75L-3U
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 D75L-3U |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | HPE | QCT |
| Part number | S6G97A | D75L-3U |
| Form factor | rack | rack |
| Released | 2025 | — |
| Accelerator | 8x B300 | 8x B300 |
| Aggregate memory | 2.1 TB | 2.3 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 with fifth-generation NVLink at 1.8 TB/s; eight onboard ConnectX-8 SuperNICs at up to 800Gb/s for east-west traffic, with up to three further NICs for north-south |
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 D75L-3U
QCT's density play: the same NVIDIA HGX B300 8-GPU baseboard as its 10U sibling, compressed into 3U by liquid cooling and designed for the NVIDIA MGX rack rather than a standalone chassis. It takes power from a 1400A busbar and rack power shelves instead of its own supplies, which is why no power figure appears here at all, and supports DC-SCM. Fifth-generation NVLink runs at 1.8 TB/s, and eight onboard ConnectX-8 SuperNICs handle east-west traffic at up to 800Gb/s. Hosting is two Intel Xeon 6700 P-core processors at up to 350 W. QCT states 2.3 TB of HBM3e per system, which is eight B300 modules at 288 GB apiece; note NVIDIA quotes 2.1 TB for the same baseboard, and this entry keeps QCT's figure since QCT is the one publishing it. No throughput figure is given for this model.
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