ESC8000A-E12
AMD EPYC™ 9004 dual-processor 4U GPU server that supports eight dual-slot GPUs, up to 24 DIMM, 11 PCIe 5.0 slots, Dual NVMe, four 3000W Titanium power supplies, OCP 3.0 and ASMB11-iKVM
- Powerful performance: Powered by AMD EPYC™ 9004 processors with 128 Zen 4c cores, 12-channel, up to 4800 MHz DDR5 and support for a maximum TDP of up to 400 watts per socket
- AI and HPC workloads ready: Up to eight dual-slot active or passive GPUs, NVIDIA NVLink® bridge, and NVIDIA Bluefield DPU support to enable performance scaling
- Power-efficient system design: Independent CPU and GPU airflow tunnels for thermal optimization and support for up to four 3000W Titanium redundant power supplies for uninterrupted operation
- Cooling solutions: Enhanced air cooling based on CPU TDP for versatile workloads
- Scale-up storage and expansion design: A total of eight bays in combination of Tri-Mode NVMe/SATA/SAS drives on the front panel and 11 PCIe 5.0 slots for higher bandwidth and system upgrade
- Flexible networking module design: Optional OCP 3.0 module with PCIe 5.0 slot in rear panel for faster connectivity
- Enhanced IT-infrastructure management: ASUS ASMB11-iKVM remote control with ASPEED AST2600, ASUS Control Center IT management software and hardware-level Root-of-Trust solution
Accelerate performance for HPC and AI workloads
Eight dual-slot GPU compute in 4U
ESC8000A-E12 is an AMD EPYC™ 9004 dual-socket server built for the demands of enterprise AI infrastructure to deliver unprecedented performance with industry-leading GPUs, faster GPU interconnect and higher-bandwidth fabric, and supports up to eight dual-slot active or passive GPUs scalable configuration with a choice of NVIDIA NVLink® Bridge or AMD Infinity Fabric™ Link to enable scaling of performance with increased bandwidth — ready to match your AI and HPC workloads.
PCIe 5.0 Ready
Faster storage, graphics and networking capabilities
PCI Express® (PCIe®) 5.0 delivers 32 GT/s bandwidth, which is twice the speed of PCIe 4.0, and offers lower power consumption, better lane scalability and backwards compatibility. ASUS servers are PCIe 5.0 ready, with scalable designs to satisfy the increasing workloads or modern data centers.
System Layout
* SAS support required a HBA/RAID card.
Panel Layout
Front Panel
Rear Panel
Block Diagram
MLPerf Benchmarks
Top results on AI workloads
ASUS NVIDIA-Certified GPU servers have achieved top performance results in the data-center Closed division across six tasks on MLCommons® MLPerf™ training and inference benchmarks, outperforming other servers with the equivalent GPU configurations to create complete, optimized solutions and cultivate strong industry partnerships to enhance AI developments in diverse fields to push technology to its limits.