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HPE ProLiant Compute XD685

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by Hewlett Packard Enterprise

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

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What it does

• Server systems
• AI compute hardware
• Model training

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Pricing

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Description

Official documentation · 18 Oct 2026

"The HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 is powered by a choice of NVIDIA or AMD Instinct GPUs, and AMD EPYC 9005 Series CPUs, making it ideal for large-scale AI model training, natural language processing, and multimodal training."

What it does

Official documentation · 18 Oct 2026

"Build and train large AI models with your choice of either eight NVIDIA or AMD Instinct accelerators."

Sold within

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Name

Official documentation · 18 Oct 2026

"HPE ProLiant Compute XD685" is the page headline, with "Accelerate large AI model training sustainably and securely."

URL

Official documentation · 18 Oct 2026

Product page titled "HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 | HPE".

Deployment

Official documentation · 18 Oct 2026

The page describes a rack server HPE ships to the customer: "HPE has a proven ability to deploy massive custom AI clusters worldwide".

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