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HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 (Instinct MI355X)

rack
8× Instinct MI355X
4th Gen AMD Infinity Fabric across the eight-OAM OCP baseboard; 4x FHHL PCIe Gen5 x16 slots for fabric, NIC or DPU
2025
FP64
0.6
PFLOPS
FP32
1.3
PFLOPS
Power
kW Total
Memory
2355
GB Total

The eight-way XD685 in its AMD Instinct MI355X configuration, liquid cooled, with accelerator kit S6J64A. This is an all-AMD machine, pairing eight MI355X OAM modules with two fifth-generation AMD EPYC processors. No chassis part number is recorded: HPE names the accelerator kit but never states which chassis it requires, and the two candidates differ. Compute comes from AMD's eight-GPU Instinct platform, where the sparse figures cover only the four datatypes AMD publishes them for, being FP8, FP16, BF16 and INT8; AMD gives no structured-sparsity figure for MXFP4 or MXFP6. HPE publishes no system power draw for the XD685, only twelve 3,000 W Titanium supplies, so nothing is summed.

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Systems built on this design

1 configuration

Built on the AMD Instinct MI355X Platform baseboard, so accelerator performance matches the reference. Chassis, CPU, memory and cooling are this vendor's own.

FP64
0.63
PFLOPS
FP32
1.26
PFLOPS
FP16
20.13
PFLOPS
BF16
20.13
PFLOPS

System Details

GPU Configuration

GPU Count: 8 GPUs
Architecture: CDNA 4
Interconnect: 4th Gen AMD Infinity Fabric across the eight-OAM OCP baseboard; 4x FHHL PCIe Gen5 x16 slots for fabric, NIC or DPU

System Specifications

Form Factor: rack
Total Power:
Total Memory: 2355 GB
Memory Bandwidth: 64000 GB/s

Precision Performance Breakdown

PrecisionSystem PerformancePer GPUEfficiency
0.629 PFLOPS 78.6 TFLOPS
1.258 PFLOPS 157.3 TFLOPS
20.133 PFLOPS 2516.6 TFLOPS
20.133 PFLOPS 2516.6 TFLOPS
40.266 PFLOPS 5033.2 TFLOPS
80.530 PFLOPS 10066.3 TFLOPS
40.266 PFLOPS 5033.2 TFLOPS
FP6 80.530 PFLOPS 10066.3 TFLOPS

All figures are dense. Vendors commonly headline the number, which is twice the dense one.

Powered by AMD Instinct MI355X

This system utilizes 8 × AMD Instinct MI355X OAM GPUs, each delivering exceptional performance for AI and HPC workloads.

Per GPU TDP

1400W

Per GPU Memory

288 GB

Process Node

3nm/6nm

Architecture

CDNA 4

Documentation & Resources

Official Datasheet

HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 (Instinct MI355X) technical specifications

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HPE Compute XD690 QuickSpecs (a50009220enw, V6)

HPE • 2026-07-06

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Typical Use Cases

AI/ML Training
High-Performance Computing
Data Analytics

The HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 (Instinct MI355X) runs 8× Instinct MI355X GPUs over 4th Gen AMD Infinity Fabric across the eight-OAM OCP baseboard; 4x FHHL PCIe Gen5 x16 slots for fabric, NIC or DPU, delivering 40.3 PFLOPS FP8 dense.