Inventec P9000G6 (LC) vs Penguin Solutions Altus XE4318GTS-DTC
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 P9000G6 (LC) | Penguin Solutions Altus XE4318GTS-DTC |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Inventec | Penguin Solutions |
| Part number | P9000G6 (LC) | Altus XE4318GTS-DTC |
| Form factor | rack | rack |
| Released | — | — |
| Accelerator | 8x B200 | 8x B200 |
| Aggregate memory | — | — |
| Aggregate bandwidth | — | — |
| System power | — | — |
| Interconnect | One NVIDIA HGX B200 liquid-cooled baseboard; eight low-profile PCIe Gen5 x16 slots from the switch | 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 P9000G6 (LC)
The liquid-cooled Blackwell node in Inventec's range, an 8U chassis 448 by 352 by 850 mm carrying one NVIDIA HGX B200 baseboard with fourth or fifth generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors of up to 385 W. Liquid cooling saves two rack units against the air-cooled P9000AG7 and cuts the GPU fan count from fifteen to five. Storage and expansion match the air-cooled machine at eight U.2 NVMe bays from the switch, four more from the CPU, two M.2 and eight low-profile PCIe Gen5 x16 slots. Power is 3,300 W 54 V supplies in 3+3 redundancy with a 2,400 W 12 V host plane. Inventec publishes no throughput, memory or system power figure; the linked HGX B200 entry carries NVIDIA's. The GPU count is not stated and follows from NVIDIA's designation of HGX B200 as an eight-GPU baseboard.
Vendor product pagePenguin Solutions Altus XE4318GTS-DTC
The Penguin Solutions Altus XE4318GTS-DTC is a 4U GPU server carrying eight NVIDIA HGX B200 SXM modules of 180 GB each, hosted by AMD EPYC 9005/9004 Series processors with 8x PCIe Gen5 x16 FHHL and 4x PCIe Gen5 x16 FHHL double-width. The DTC suffix marks Penguin's direct-to-chip liquid cooling, which is what folds an eight-accelerator Blackwell baseboard into 4U where the air-cooled equivalent needs 8U. 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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