HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 (HGX B300) vs NVIDIA DGX B300
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) | NVIDIA DGX B300 |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | HPE | NVIDIA |
| Part number | S6Y07A | — |
| Form factor | rack | rack |
| 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 | — | 14.0 kW |
| Interconnect | NVLink 5.0 / NVSwitch 4.0 across the HGX B300 baseboard; 4x FHHL PCIe Gen5 x16 slots for fabric, NIC or DPU | NVSwitch + NVLink |
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 pageNVIDIA DGX B300
Eight Blackwell Ultra SXM GPUs on the HGX B300 baseboard with Intel Xeon 6776P processors, in a 10U chassis. NVIDIA quotes 144 PFLOPS of FP4 inference performance for this machine, which is the sparse figure; the dense equivalent is 108 PFLOPS, and both are recorded. Power is given by NVIDIA as approximately 14 kW.
Vendor product page