QCT QuantaGrid D74F-7U vs Supermicro GPU SuperServer SYS-821GE-TNHR

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

SpecificationQCT QuantaGrid D74F-7USupermicro GPU SuperServer SYS-821GE-TNHR
VendorQCTSupermicro
Part numberD74F-7USYS-821GE-TNHR
Form factorrackrack
Released2024
Accelerator8x H2008x H200
Aggregate memory1.1 TB1.1 TB
Aggregate bandwidth38.4 TB/s
System power
InterconnectOne NVIDIA HGX H200 baseboard connecting the eight GPUs at 900 GB/s over NVLink; one BlueField-3 DPU, with ten OCP 3.0 TSFF PCIe Gen5 x16 slots in place of the D75F's internal slotsNVSwitch + NVLink

Rows shown in grey are identical between the two.

QCT QuantaGrid D74F-7U

The OCP-slot variant of QCT's 7U Hopper machine, carrying the same eight NVIDIA HGX H200 GPUs at 900 GB/s over NVLink and the same 1.1 TB of aggregate high-bandwidth memory as the D75F-7U. The differences are in I/O and packaging: one BlueField-3 DPU rather than two, ten OCP 3.0 TSFF PCIe Gen 5 slots, a shorter 886 mm chassis, and three-plus-three 4,000 W Titanium supplies. QCT quotes the same over 32 petaflops of FP8 figure, which is not shown here for the same reason as on the D75F: the basis is unstated and cannot be settled. Power figures are supply capacity, not draw.

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Supermicro GPU SuperServer SYS-821GE-TNHR

8U GPU SuperServer built on the NVIDIA HGX H200 baseboard with 4x NVSwitch. Two Intel Xeon Scalable sockets (4th or 5th Gen, up to 64 cores each at 350W, air-cooled), 32 DIMM slots to an 8 TB maximum of DDR5-5600 ECC RDIMM, 19 front hot-swap 2.5-inch NVMe/SATA bays plus two M.2 NVMe boot slots, and 8x PCIe Gen5 x16 low-profile slots with 2x FHHL. Also sold in an HGX H100 configuration. System-level power draw is not published.

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