Inventec P9000AG7 (AC) vs Penguin Solutions Relion XE8318GTS
Both are built on the NVIDIA HGX B200 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 | Inventec P9000AG7 (AC) | Penguin Solutions Relion XE8318GTS |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Inventec | Penguin Solutions |
| Part number | P9000AG7 (AC) | Relion XE8318GTS |
| Form factor | rack | rack |
| Released | — | — |
| Accelerator | 8x B200 | 8x B200 |
| Aggregate memory | — | — |
| Aggregate bandwidth | — | — |
| System power | — | — |
| Interconnect | One NVIDIA HGX B200 air-cooled baseboard; eight low-profile PCIe Gen5 x16 slots hang off the switch, with one further full-height slot or an OCP 3.0 SFF from the mainboard | Penguin publishes no interconnect figure; expansion is 8x PCIe Gen5 x16 FHHL and 4x PCIe Gen5 x16 FHHL double-width |
Rows shown in grey are identical between the two.
Inventec P9000AG7 (AC)
Inventec's air-cooled Blackwell node on AMD hosts, a 10U chassis 448 by 441 by 850 mm carrying one NVIDIA HGX B200 baseboard alongside fifth-generation AMD EPYC processors of up to 400 W. Storage is eight U.2 NVMe bays from the PCIe switch plus four more from the CPU and two M.2, and the switch also provides eight low-profile PCIe Gen5 x16 slots. Cooling is air, with fifteen 80 mm fans on the GPU side and five on the CPU side, and power comes from 3,300 W 54 V supplies in 4+2 redundancy for the accelerators with a separate 2,400 W 12 V plane in 1+1 for the host. Inventec publishes no throughput, memory or system power figure for the node; the baseboard's figures are on the linked HGX B200 entry. The GPU count is not stated on the page either, and is taken from NVIDIA's designation of HGX B200 as an eight-GPU baseboard.
Vendor product pagePenguin Solutions Relion XE8318GTS
The Penguin Solutions Relion XE8318GTS is a 8U GPU server carrying eight NVIDIA HGX B200 SXM modules of 180 GB each, hosted by 5th and 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors with 8x PCIe Gen5 x16 FHHL and 4x PCIe Gen5 x16 FHHL double-width. The air-cooled Blackwell machine, needing 8U where the liquid-cooled Altus XE4318GTS-DTC does the same work in 4U. Penguin publishes only rack height, host processor, expansion slots and the accelerator for its servers, so no power draw, total memory, interconnect bandwidth or throughput figure is shown here; its full datasheets are hosted off its own domain and were not used as a source.
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