Hewlett Packard Enterprise vs NVIDIA

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

Relationship

HPE ProLiant Compute DL380a Gen12 and NVIDIA DGX H100 do comparable work on AI compute hardware and server systems; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; larger scale (public).

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

6 shared capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scale

6 shared capabilities — Across all their products, both list AI compute hardware, data analysis, model inference and 3 more.

Ludbee capability tags · every product each company sells

Shared product type — Both ship application, hardware, infrastructure service and 1 more.

Ludbee product records

Larger scale — NVIDIA: Public, against Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Public.

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

Aligned comparison

FieldHewlett Packard EnterpriseNVIDIA
StagePublicPublic match
Founded20151993 22 yrs earlier
StatusPublicPublic match
CategoryHardwareHardware match
Stack layerApplication, Hardware, Infrastructure service, PlatformAI agent, Agent platform, Application, Developer tool, Hardware, Infrastructure service, Model API, Platform
HeadquartersSpring, USASanta Clara, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 6

AI compute hardwareData analysisModel inferenceModel trainingServer systemsWorkflow automation

Not verified for Hewlett Packard Enterprise · 25

3D generationAccelerator siliconAgent orchestrationAudio editingAutonomous drivingAvatar videoComputer useData labellingData securityDrug discoveryEvaluation and observabilityGPU cloudGPU programmingGuardrails and safetyImage generationIndustrial automationInterconnectModel hostingRobot controlSpeech to textText to speechVector searchVideo analyticsVideo editingVoice agent

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

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has no capability NVIDIA lacks, among the 6 recorded here.

Products, side by side

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

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

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.

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.

NVIDIA

Application

NVIDIA CanvasApplication

NVIDIA Canvas uses AI to turn brushstrokes into landscape images.

NVIDIA Cosmos Dataset SearchApplication

Cosmos Dataset Search ingests, indexes, searches and curates multimodal data using visual search and analytics microservices.

NVIDIA DLSSApplication

NVIDIA DLSS uses AI neural rendering to generate frames and improve image quality in supported games and applications.

NVIDIA NeMo StudioApplication

NeMo Studio supplies a web interface for managing Helix resources and inspecting AI agents, jobs and telemetry.

Platform

CUDA ToolkitPlatform

Programming toolkit and libraries for running general-purpose computation on NVIDIA GPUs.

NVIDIA ACEPlatform

Suite of AI technologies (speech, intelligence, animation models and plugins) for building conversational, actionable in-game characters, mostly MIT-licensed with some components under NVIDIA's open model license.

NVIDIA AI AerialPlatform

A suite of computing platforms, software libraries and tools for building, training, simulating and deploying AI-native wireless networks.

NVIDIA AI EnterprisePlatform

Supported software suite for building and deploying AI workloads on NVIDIA hardware.

NVIDIA AI FoundryPlatform

NVIDIA AI Foundry provides a platform and service for building generative AI models using enterprise data.

NVIDIA AI WorkbenchPlatform

Free development-environment manager for creating, customizing and collaborating on AI applications across GPU systems, with enterprise support available through an NVIDIA AI Enterprise license.

NVIDIA AI for MediaPlatform

NVIDIA AI for Media supplies AI tools and microservices for enhancing audio, video and visual effects.

NVIDIA BioNeMoPlatform

Development platform for AI-driven biology and drug discovery: open models, libraries, datasets and NIM microservices for the full AI lifecycle in biopharma.

NVIDIA DRIVEPlatform

End-to-end autonomous-vehicle platform spanning training infrastructure, simulation and safety-certified in-vehicle compute for production autonomy from L2++ to L4.

NVIDIA Dynamo-Triton (Triton Inference Server)Platform

Open-source model-deployment server for TensorRT, PyTorch, ONNX, OpenVINO and other frameworks across GPUs and CPUs, with production support and stable APIs through NVIDIA AI Enterprise.

NVIDIA Earth-2Platform

A software platform for weather and climate forecasting that includes models, tools and services.

NVIDIA HoloscanPlatform

A computing platform for real-time processing of streaming sensor data and AI inference.

NVIDIA IsaacPlatform

Open robotics development platform combining simulation, CUDA-accelerated perception libraries, ROS 2 integration and humanoid tooling for building AI-powered robots.

NVIDIA MetropolisPlatform

NVIDIA Metropolis is a platform for developing and deploying video analytics AI agents and applications.

NVIDIA NeMoPlatform

Suite of libraries and microservices covering the AI agent lifecycle - data curation, customisation, evaluation, guardrails and monitoring.

NVIDIA OmniversePlatform

Platform of OpenUSD-based libraries and microservices for building simulation-ready digital twins and synthetic-data environments used to train and validate physical AI and robots.

NVIDIA Open Agent Safety PlatformPlatform

A software platform and reference system design that monitors and governs AI agent behavior.

NVIDIA RAPIDSPlatform

Suite of open-source, GPU-accelerated data-science libraries (cuDF, cuML, cuGraph, cuxfilter), rebranding to "CUDA-X for Data Science."

NVIDIA RivaPlatform

Deployable speech-AI library (ASR/TTS) for production inference, free to prototype via build.nvidia.com and licensed for production deployment through NVIDIA AI Enterprise.

NVIDIA TensorRTPlatform

Ecosystem of compilers, runtimes and optimization tools for high-performance deep-learning inference; TensorRT-LLM and Model Optimizer are free on GitHub, with commercial deployment options via NVIDIA AI Enterprise.

Infrastructure service

NVIDIA DGX CloudInfrastructure service

NVIDIA's AI cloud of GPU clusters and managed AI services, which NVIDIA's own page now presents as its internal environment for building its models, and which is still sold on Microsoft's Azure marketplace.

NVIDIA Mission ControlInfrastructure service

NVIDIA Mission Control manages AI infrastructure through workload orchestration, monitoring and automated recovery.

NVIDIA OpenShellInfrastructure service

Open-source (Apache-2.0) sandboxed runtime that runs autonomous AI agents under policy controls, the software half of NVIDIA's Open Agent Safety Platform.

NVIDIA Run:aiInfrastructure service

NVIDIA Run:ai orchestrates AI workloads and allocates GPU resources across Kubernetes infrastructure.

NVIDIA TensorRT LLMInfrastructure service

A library and runtime for optimizing large-language-model inference on NVIDIA GPUs.

Hardware

NVIDIA BlackwellHardware

Data-centre GPU architecture used for training and serving large models, sold in servers and rack systems.

NVIDIA BlueField PlatformHardware

Data-processing-unit (DPU) platform combining compute with accelerated networking, storage and security for AI-factory infrastructure.

NVIDIA BroadcastHardware

Free application that enhances livestreams and video calls with AI noise removal, background replacement and other audio/video effects; requires a GeForce RTX GPU.

NVIDIA DGX B300Hardware

An AI computing system powered by NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs for model inference and training.

NVIDIA DGX H100Hardware

NVIDIA DGX H100 is an AI computing system containing eight NVIDIA H100 GPUs.

NVIDIA DGX SparkHardware

Desktop AI supercomputer powered by the GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip for local autonomous agents, running models up to 200B parameters for inference.

NVIDIA DGX StationHardware

Deskside AI supercomputer powered by the GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Superchip, up to 20 petaFLOPS and 748GB coherent memory, supporting models up to 1T parameters.

NVIDIA HGX PlatformHardware

Reference baseboard specification (HGX B200, B300, Vera Rubin NVL8) that system integrators and OEMs build into complete AI servers, listed in NVIDIA's Qualified System Catalog.

NVIDIA IGX PlatformHardware

Edge-AI developer kits (IGX Thor, IGX Thor Mini, IGX Orin) for industrial and medical edge computing.

NVIDIA JetsonHardware

Family of embedded AI modules and developer kits for robotics and edge AI (Thor, AGX Orin, Orin NX/Nano, Xavier, TX2/Nano series).

NVIDIA OVX SystemsHardware

Scalable data-centre server systems (e.g. OVX L40S with four or eight GPUs) for AI and graphics workloads, built by NVIDIA OVX partners.

NVIDIA Quantum-X InfiniBandHardware

Quantum-X800 InfiniBand switching for large-scale AI clusters, part of NVIDIA's InfiniBand networking line.

NVIDIA RTX PROHardware

Professional GPU line (RTX PRO 2000 through RTX PRO 6000) for AI, graphics and simulation workloads across Blackwell, Ada Lovelace, Ampere and Turing architectures.

NVIDIA Spectrum-XHardware

Ethernet networking platform (switches, ConnectX SuperNICs, BlueField DPUs, LinkX cables) purpose-built for generative-AI-scale data centres.

NVIDIA Vera RubinHardware

NVIDIA's data-centre platform succeeding Blackwell, pairing Rubin GPUs with Vera CPUs at rack scale for agentic AI and reasoning workloads.

NVIDIA Virtual GPU (vGPU)Hardware

Software that virtualizes GPUs across VMs in enterprise data centres and cloud deployments, licensed through NVIDIA's vGPU License and Support Portal.

No counterpart

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

AI agent

Project G-AssistAI agent

Project G-Assist uses voice or text commands to adjust PC settings and provide system diagnostics.

Agent platform

NVIDIA NemoClawAgent platform

An agent deployment package that combines models, harnesses, tools and a runtime with policy controls and sandboxing.

Developer tool

NIXLDeveloper tool

NIXL accelerates transfers among GPU memory, CPU memory and storage for AI inference frameworks.

NVIDIA Data Loading Library (DALI)Developer tool

NVIDIA Data Loading Library (DALI) loads and preprocesses image, video and audio data for deep learning.

NVIDIA Megatron CoreDeveloper tool

NVIDIA Megatron Core provides GPU building blocks for training generative AI models.

NVIDIA cuEquivarianceDeveloper tool

NVIDIA cuEquivariance provides CUDA kernels and APIs for geometric neural networks.

NVIDIA cuMLDeveloper tool

NVIDIA cuML accelerates scikit-learn, UMAP and HDBSCAN machine learning workflows on GPUs.

NVIDIA cuVSDeveloper tool

NVIDIA cuVS provides GPU-accelerated vector search and data clustering.

Transformer EngineDeveloper tool

Transformer Engine accelerates Transformer model training and inference on NVIDIA GPUs using low-precision formats.

Model API

NVIDIA NIMModel API

Prebuilt inference microservices that package foundation models with optimised serving engines and standard APIs, deployable as hosted endpoints or self-hosted containers.