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Two rigs, one table. Higher numbers win in cobalt; TDP and price flip.

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SpecNVIDIA HGX B200Aurora
Accelerator—Intel Data Center GPU Max
Architecture—HPE Cray EX with Intel Exascale Compute Blade
Cores—9,264,128
CPU—Intel Xeon CPU Max 9470 52C 2.4GHz
Fp16 Bf16 Pflops36—
FP32 TFLOPS600—
FP4 Pflops Dense72—
FP4 Pflops Sparse144—
FP64 TFLOPS296—
FP8 FP6 Pflops72—
Gpus8—
Installation Year—2,023
Int8 Pops72—
Interconnect—HPE Slingshot-11
Location—DOE/SC/Argonne National Laboratory
Manufacturer—Intel / HPE
Networking Bandwidth TB S0.8—
Nvlink Generation5—
Nvlink GPU TO GPU TB S1.8—
Power KW—38,698.36
Rmax Pflops—1,012
Rpeak Pflops—1,980.01
Top500 Rank Jun2026—4
Top500 Rank Nov2025—3
Total HBM GB1,400—
Total Nvlink Bandwidth TB S14.4—