AMD vs Hewlett Packard Enterprise

AMD — Hardware · Public · 3 of 3 figures sourced  |  Hewlett Packard Enterprise — Hardware · Public · 2 of 2 figures sourced

Relationship

AMD Helios Rackscale Solution and HPE Compute XD690 do comparable work on model training and server systems; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; smaller scale (public).

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

4 shared capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scale

4 shared capabilities — Across all their products, both list AI compute hardware, model inference, model training and 1 more.

Ludbee capability tags · every product each company sells

Shared product type — Both ship hardware, infrastructure service and platform.

Ludbee product records

Smaller scale — Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Public, against AMD: Public.

Ludbee stage bands · public, late-stage or early-stage

Aligned comparison

FieldAMDHewlett Packard Enterprise
StagePublicPublic match
Founded19692015 46 yrs later
StatusPublicPublic match
CategoryHardwareHardware match
Stack layerHardware, Infrastructure service, PlatformApplication, Hardware, Infrastructure service, Platform
HeadquartersSanta Clara, USASpring, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 4

AI compute hardwareModel inferenceModel trainingServer systems

Not verified for Hewlett Packard Enterprise · 5

Accelerator siliconGPU cloudGPU programmingInterconnectModel hosting

Recorded for AMD. Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for AMD · 2

Data analysisWorkflow automation

Recorded for Hewlett Packard Enterprise. AMD’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

AMD

Platform

AMD Enterprise AI Reference StackPlatform

An open-source reference stack for running enterprise AI workloads at scale on AMD compute: open-source AI frameworks and generative models connected to an enterprise-ready Kubernetes platform, with AMD Inference Microservices — prebuilt inference containers bundling model, engine and optimised configuration for AMD hardware.

AMD ROCmPlatform

Open-source GPU computing stack of compilers, runtimes and libraries for running AI and HPC workloads on AMD hardware.

AMD Ryzen AI SoftwarePlatform

A development stack of compiler, runtime and tools for porting pretrained models onto the NPU and integrated GPU of Ryzen AI processors.

AMD Vitis AIPlatform

An open-source AI inference development stack of compiler, optimised NPU IP and runtime for deploying deep-learning models on AMD adaptive SoCs, FPGAs and Alveo cards.

Infrastructure service

AMD Developer CloudInfrastructure service

An on-demand cloud service giving developers browser and API access to AMD Instinct MI300X GPU instances for AI, ML and HPC workloads.

Hardware

AMD Helios Rackscale SolutionHardware

A rack-scale AI system combining 72 Instinct MI455X GPUs with EPYC CPUs and Pensando networking for frontier-model training and large-scale inference.

AMD InstinctHardware

Data-centre GPU accelerators for training and serving models, sold in OEM servers and rack systems.

AMD Kria SOMsHardware

System-on-module family for deploying edge and physical AI, with production SOMs and partner-validated carrier systems.

AMD Pensando AI NICsHardware

AI NIC family (Pollara 400 at 400 Gbps, Vulcano 800 at 800 Gbps Ethernet) for scale-out inter-GPU communication in AI training and inference clusters, built on the Ultra Ethernet Consortium specification.

AMD Pensando DPUsHardware

Data processing unit family (Salina, Giglio) offloading networking, security and storage services from host CPUs in AI data centres, programmable via the P4-based Pensando software stack.

AMD Versal AI CoreHardware

Adaptive SoC/FPGA family for AI inference and adaptive compute workloads.

AMD Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2Hardware

Second-generation Versal AI Edge adaptive SoC family for embedded AI preprocessing, inference and postprocessing.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Platform

GreenLake IntelligencePlatform

An agentic AIOps system HPE sells to its GreenLake subscription customers to automate and operate IT/network infrastructure.

Infrastructure service

HPE Private Cloud AIInfrastructure service

Turnkey private AI stack co-engineered with NVIDIA, sold as integrated compute, storage and networking with a console to deploy, monitor and govern enterprise AI agents and models.

Hardware

HPE Compute XD690Hardware

8-GPU air-cooled server with NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra (B300 HGX) accelerators for large AI model training, tuning and inferencing, part of NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE.

HPE ProLiant Compute DL380a Gen12Hardware

4U rack server for AI inference supporting up to ten double-wide NVIDIA GPUs and Intel Xeon 6 processors.

HPE ProLiant Compute DL384 Gen12Hardware

Rack server for generative AI workloads with up to two NVIDIA GH200 NVL2 superchips, used to train and deploy larger AI models and as a building block of HPE Private Cloud AI.

HPE ProLiant Compute DL585a Gen13Hardware

10U rack server for production AI with two AMD EPYC 9006 processors and up to eight double-wide GPUs, for inference, RAG and agentic AI workloads.

HPE ProLiant Compute XD685Hardware

8-GPU server for large AI model training with a choice of NVIDIA or AMD Instinct accelerators and AMD EPYC 9005 processors.

No counterpart

Hewlett Packard Enterprise sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for AMD yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Application

HPE Aruba Networking CentralApplication

Cloud-native network management and AIOps for HPE Aruba Networking wired, wireless and SD-WAN devices, with AI-driven insights, self-driving automation and a GreenLake copilot, deployable as a cloud service, on-premises, as-a-service or in a virtual private cloud.

HPE Marvis AIApplication

AI network assistant that answers network questions in natural language and, when permitted, resolves WLAN, LAN, WAN and data-centre issues autonomously.

HPE OpsRamp SoftwareApplication

Hybrid cloud observability and AIOps software that unifies monitoring of on-premises, multicloud and AI workloads, uses an AI-powered Operations Copilot to cut alert noise and guide resolution, and automates routine fixes.

Mist AIApplication

Cloud AI-native networking platform from Juniper (now HPE) that applies AI models to network telemetry for proactive insights, recommendations and automated resolutions across wireless, wired and WAN, with the Marvis AI assistant on top.