HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 (HGX B300) vs Inventec P5800G7
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 ProLiant Compute XD685 (HGX B300) | Inventec P5800G7 |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | HPE | Inventec |
| Part number | S6Y07A | P5800G7 |
| Form factor | rack | rack |
| Released | 2025 | — |
| Accelerator | 8x B300 | 8x B300 |
| Aggregate memory | 2.1 TB | — |
| Aggregate bandwidth | 64.0 TB/s | — |
| System power | — | — |
| Interconnect | NVLink 5.0 / NVSwitch 4.0 across the HGX B300 baseboard; 4x FHHL PCIe Gen5 x16 slots for fabric, NIC or DPU | One NVIDIA HGX B300 NVL8 liquid-cooled baseboard, with eight 800Gb OSFP connectors driven by NVIDIA ConnectX-8 SuperNICs for east-west traffic |
Rows shown in grey are identical between the two.
HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 (HGX B300)
The eight-way XD685 in its NVIDIA HGX B300 configuration, which requires the high-power liquid-cooled chassis S6Y07A rather than the standard DLC one. This is the denser sibling of the air-cooled XD690, which reaches the same eight Blackwell Ultra GPUs in 10U where this does it in 5U. Two fifth-generation AMD EPYC processors, 24 DIMM slots and up to 6 TB of DDR5-6400, eight EDSFF NVMe E3.S drives. HPE publishes no system power draw for the XD685, only twelve 3,000 W Titanium supplies with ten deployable, so unlike the XD690 no figure is recorded; the compute shown is NVIDIA's specification for the HGX B300 baseboard rather than an HPE claim.
Vendor product pageInventec P5800G7
Inventec's densest Blackwell Ultra node: the same eight-accelerator HGX B300 NVL8 baseboard as its 10U air-cooled sibling, folded into 5U at 448 by 219.5 by 875 mm by moving to liquid cooling. The fan count tells the story, four 80 mm GPU fans against fifteen in the air-cooled machine. East-west networking is eight 800Gb OSFP connectors driven by NVIDIA ConnectX-8 SuperNICs, one per accelerator, and hosts are Intel Xeon 6700 series with E-cores or 6700 and 6500 series with P-cores. Power is 3,300 W 54 V supplies in 4+1 or 4+2 redundancy with a 2,000 W 12 V host plane. This is the only Inventec node whose GPU count is stated on the page, in the NVL8 designation itself. No throughput, memory or system power figure is published.
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