Inventec P9000G7 (AC) vs Penguin Solutions Relion XE8418GTS
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 | Inventec P9000G7 (AC) | Penguin Solutions Relion XE8418GTS |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Inventec | Penguin Solutions |
| Part number | P9000G7 (AC) | Relion XE8418GTS |
| Form factor | rack | rack |
| Released | — | — |
| Accelerator | 8x B300 | 8x B300 |
| Aggregate memory | — | — |
| Aggregate bandwidth | — | — |
| System power | — | — |
| Interconnect | One NVIDIA HGX B300 air-cooled baseboard, with eight 800Gb OSFP connectors for east-west traffic | Penguin publishes no interconnect figure; expansion is 4x PCIe Gen5 x16 FHHL double-width |
Rows shown in grey are identical between the two.
Inventec P9000G7 (AC)
The Blackwell Ultra generation of Inventec's 10U air-cooled node, in the same 448 by 441 by 850 mm chassis as its B200 sibling but hosted by Intel Xeon 6700 series with E-cores or 6700 and 6500 series with P-cores. It carries one NVIDIA HGX B300 baseboard and eight 800Gb OSFP connectors for east-west networking, one per accelerator. Storage is eight U.2 NVMe bays with four optional more and two M.2. The accelerator power plane moves to 3,300 W supplies in 5+1 redundancy, tighter than the B200 node's 4+2, with a 2,000 W 12 V host plane. Inventec publishes no throughput, memory or system power figure; the linked HGX B300 entry carries NVIDIA's. The GPU count is not stated and is taken from NVIDIA's designation of HGX B300 as an eight-GPU baseboard.
Vendor product pagePenguin Solutions Relion XE8418GTS
The Penguin Solutions Relion XE8418GTS is a 8U GPU server carrying eight NVIDIA HGX B300 SXM6 modules of 288 GB each, hosted by Intel Xeon 6 (6700/6500 Series) processors with 4x PCIe Gen5 x16 FHHL double-width. The air-cooled Blackwell Ultra machine, twice the height of its direct-to-chip sibling for the same eight accelerators. 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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