HPE Apollo 6500 Gen10 Plus vs HPE Cray XD6500
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The HPE Apollo 6500 Gen10 Plus System is an exascale-class AI and HPC server platform built around AMD EPYC 7002/7003 processors and PCIe 4.0 architecture. The HPE Cray XD6500 is an enterprise 5U accelerated server platform purpose built for massive artificial intelligence training, generative deep learning models, and complex molecular simulation workloads.
| HPE Apollo 6500 Gen10 Plus | HPE Cray XD6500 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | HPE | HPE |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Oct 2020 | Nov 2022 |
| Form factor | 4U rack | 5U GPU supercomputing node |
| Cpu sockets | 2 | 2 |
| Cpu platform | AMD EPYC 7002 / 7003 series processors per XL645d / XL675d node | — |
| Memory slots | 32 | — |
| Memory type | DDR4-3200 SmartMemory RDIMM / LRDIMM | — |
| Memory max (GB) | 4,096 | — |
| Gpu support | Up to 8 NVIDIA A100 SXM4 / PCIe GPUs or 8 AMD Instinct MI100 accelerators | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 16 SFF NVMe PCIe SSDs | — |
| Power supply | Up to 6x 3000W Titanium power supplies | — |
| Cpu architecture | — | AMD EPYC 9004 or 4th/5th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable |
| Accelerators | — | 8x NVIDIA H100 or H200 SXM5, or AMD Instinct MI300X |
| Accelerator interconnect | — | NVLink 4.0 or Infinity Fabric up to 900GB/s per GPU |
| System memory | — | Up to 3TB DDR5 ECC memory across 24 or 32 DIMMs |
| Networking | — | Up to 8 high-speed PCIe Gen5 / OSFP InfiniBand or Slingshot adapters |
| Power supplies | — | Up to six 3000W titanium hot-plug redundant power supplies |
Buying or selling a Apollo 6500 Gen10 Plus or Cray XD6500?
New, refurbished or used. Tell us the quantity and condition and we connect you with a vetted reseller in your region, usually within one working day.