HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 (HGX B200)
The eight-way XD685 in its NVIDIA HGX B200 configuration, liquid cooled only, in the 5U DLC chassis S4R96A. HPE names B200 support twice in the QuickSpecs, in the supported-accelerator list and in the rule that the H200 and B200 liquid-cooled accelerators must be paired with this chassis, so the configuration is not in doubt. The accelerator kit part number is not recorded: the accelerator table lists two entries both described as HGX B300 with different part numbers, one of which is likely the B200 mislabelled, and guessing which would put an unverified number on a row buyers may quote. Two fifth-generation AMD EPYC processors, 24 DIMM slots and up to 6 TB of DDR5-6400. HPE publishes no system power draw, only twelve 3,000 W supplies, so nothing is summed; compute is NVIDIA's for the baseboard.
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Systems built on this design
2 configurationsBuilt on the NVIDIA HGX B200 8-GPU baseboard, so accelerator performance matches the reference. Chassis, CPU, memory and cooling are this vendor's own.
System Details
GPU Configuration
System Specifications
Precision Performance Breakdown
| Precision | System Performance | Per GPU | Efficiency |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.296 PFLOPS | 37.0 TFLOPS | — | |
| 0.600 PFLOPS | 75.0 TFLOPS | — | |
| 8.800 PFLOPS | 1100.0 TFLOPS | — | |
| 18.000 PFLOPS | 2250.0 TFLOPS | — | |
| 18.000 PFLOPS | 2250.0 TFLOPS | — | |
| 36.000 PFLOPS | 4500.0 TFLOPS | — | |
| 72.000 PFLOPS | 9000.0 TFLOPS | — | |
| 36.000 PFLOPS | 4500.0 TFLOPS | — |
All figures are dense. Vendors commonly headline the number, which is twice the dense one.
Powered by NVIDIA B200
This system utilizes 8 × NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB GPUs, each delivering exceptional performance for AI and HPC workloads.
Per GPU TDP
1000W
Per GPU Memory
180 GB
Process Node
4nm
Architecture
Blackwell
Documentation & Resources
Official Datasheet
HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 (HGX B200) technical specifications
HPE Compute XD690 QuickSpecs (a50009220enw, V6)
HPE • 2026-07-06
Typical Use Cases
The HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 (HGX B200) runs 8× B200 GPUs over NVLink 5.0 / NVSwitch 4.0 across the HGX B200 baseboard; 4x FHHL PCIe Gen5 x16 slots for fabric, NIC or DPU, delivering 36.0 PFLOPS FP8 dense.