Penguin Solutions Altus XE5318GTSv2 vs Supermicro GPU SuperServer AS -8125GS-TNHR (HGX H200)
Both are built on the NVIDIA HGX H200 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 | Penguin Solutions Altus XE5318GTSv2 | Supermicro GPU SuperServer AS -8125GS-TNHR (HGX H200) |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Penguin Solutions | Supermicro |
| Part number | Altus XE5318GTSv2 | AS -8125GS-TNHR |
| Form factor | rack | rack |
| Released | — | 2024 |
| Accelerator | 8x H200 | 8x H200 |
| Aggregate memory | — | 1.1 TB |
| Aggregate bandwidth | — | 38.4 TB/s |
| System power | — | — |
| Interconnect | Penguin publishes no interconnect figure; expansion is 8x PCIe Gen5 x16 low profile and 4x PCIe Gen5 x16 FHHL | NVIDIA NVLink with NVSwitch between GPUs; PCIe 5.0 x16 CPU-to-GPU |
Rows shown in grey are identical between the two.
Penguin Solutions Altus XE5318GTSv2
The Penguin Solutions Altus XE5318GTSv2 is a 5U GPU server carrying eight NVIDIA HGX H200 SXM5 modules of 141 GB each, hosted by AMD EPYC 9005/9004 Series processors with 8x PCIe Gen5 x16 low profile and 4x PCIe Gen5 x16 FHHL. Penguin's AMD-hosted Hopper workhorse, air cooled in 5U. 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.
Vendor product pageSupermicro GPU SuperServer AS -8125GS-TNHR (HGX H200)
Supermicro's 8U AMD EPYC platform for the NVIDIA HGX H200 8-GPU baseboard, and the EPYC sibling of the Intel-based SYS-821GE-TNHR. Two SP5 sockets take AMD EPYC 9004 processors up to 128 cores and 256 threads at up to 400 W each, air cooled, with 24 DIMM slots supporting up to 6 TB of DDR5. GPUs connect to the CPUs over PCIe 5.0 x16 and to each other over NVLink with NVSwitch, and the chassis provides eight NICs for GPU-direct RDMA at a 1:1 ratio with the GPUs. The CSE-GP801TS chassis is 8U, weighs 102.1 kg gross, takes up to ten heavy-duty fans and six 3000 W Titanium supplies in 3+3 redundancy. Compute is identical to the H100 configuration because H100 and H200 are the same silicon at the same clocks; the difference is memory, 1.128 TB of HBM3e here against 0.64 TB. Supermicro publishes no FLOPS figure for this system; the compute shown is NVIDIA's for the HGX H200 baseboard it carries. Supermicro publishes no system power draw either, only the supply configuration, so total power is left blank.
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