QCT QuantaGrid D75F-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
| Specification | QCT QuantaGrid D75F-7U | Supermicro GPU SuperServer SYS-821GE-TNHR |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | QCT | Supermicro |
| Part number | D75F-7U | SYS-821GE-TNHR |
| Form factor | rack | rack |
| Released | — | 2024 |
| Accelerator | 8x H200 | 8x H200 |
| Aggregate memory | 1.1 TB | 1.1 TB |
| Aggregate bandwidth | — | 38.4 TB/s |
| System power | — | — |
| Interconnect | One NVIDIA HGX H200 baseboard connecting the eight GPUs at 900 GB/s over NVLink, which QCT notes is seven times the bandwidth of PCIe Gen 5; two BlueField-3 DPUs handle networking | NVSwitch + NVLink |
Rows shown in grey are identical between the two.
QCT QuantaGrid D75F-7U
QCT's 7U Hopper machine, with two fifth or fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and eight NVIDIA HGX H200 GPUs linked at 900 GB/s over NVLink. Storage is eighteen small-form-factor all-NVMe bays for GPU-Direct Storage plus a boot drive, and two NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs offload networking. QCT gives 1.1 TB of aggregate high-bandwidth memory. It also quotes over 32 petaflops of FP8, which is not shown here: QCT does not say whether that is dense or sparse, it is close to double the dense figure NVIDIA published for this baseboard, and NVIDIA no longer lists the H200 on its HGX page, so there is no way to settle which column it belongs in without guessing. Power is four-plus-two 4,000 W Titanium supplies, which is capacity rather than draw.
Vendor product pageSupermicro 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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