ThinkSystem SR680a V3 Rack Server
Delivering Massive Computational Performance for AI and HPC
8x NVIDIA H100 GPUs (640GB of total GPU memory at 3.3TB/s) or 8x NVIDIA H200 GPUs (1,128GB of total GPU memory at 4.8TB/s), utilizing 4x NVIDIA NVSwitches for a total of 7.2TB/s of bi-directional GPU-to-GPU bandwidth
8x AMD Instinct™ MI300X (1,536GB of total GPU memory at 5.2TB/s) for a total of 6.4TB/s of bi-directional GPU-to-GPU bandwidth
Two 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with 32 DDR5 DIMM sockets
Up to 10x PCIe Gen5 x16 slots with 8x directly connected to the GPU complex
Up to 16x 2.5″ NVMe drives for maximum storage capacity and performance
Features

Massive Computational Performance
The ThinkSystem SR680a V3 offers groundbreaking performance with two 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors. With support for 32x DDR5 memory at 5600MHz, up to 4TB.
It is designed to maximize GPU performance with support for eight of the latest high-speed interconnected GPUs to drive innovations in AI like LLM, machine learning, model training, and the most demanding HPC workloads.
Experience the fastest transfer rates with the ThinkSystem SR680a V3 utilizing NVIDIA NVLink (up to 900GB/Sec) or AMD’s Infinity Fabric (up to 896GB/Sec).

Flexible Acceleration
The ThinkSystem SR680a V3 supports the industry’s leading GPU platforms for AI: NVIDIA’s HGX™ H100/H200/Blackwell or AMD’s Instinct™ MI300X GPUs in an 8U frame that fits into an industry-standard 19″ rack.
NVIDIA H100/H200/Blackwell Tensor Core GPU platforms deliver unprecedented acceleration — at every scale — to power the world’s highest-performing elastic data centers for AI and HPC applications.
The AMD Instinct™ MI300X discrete GPU is based on next-generation AMD CDNA™ 3 architecture and delivers leadership efficiency and performance for compute-intensive AI and HPC workloads.

Resilient, Simple & Future-Forward
Lenovo designed the ThinkSystem SR680a V3 with their customer and the future in mind. It offers resilient power supplies, thermals for next-generation GPUs, and easy systems management.
The 8x CFFV4 power supplies in the ThinkSystem SR680a support full N+N redundancy without throttling, maximizing resiliency.
Looking to support the next generation of higher-power GPUs, the ThinkSystem SR680a is Air-cooled with N+1 hot-swap fans, and has thermal headroom for future GPUs.
The ThinkSystem SR680a V3 includes efficient deployment and simplified management with Lenovo XClarity software.
Tech Specs
Form Factor | 8U rack |
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Processor | 2x 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, up to 350W |
Memory | Up to 4TB using 32x DDR5 DIMMs with maximum frequency at 5600MHz |
GPU | Supports 8x high-performance GPUs:
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I/O Expansion | Up to 10x PCIe Gen5 x16 FHHL adapters
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Power | Up to 8x hot-swap power supplies, allowing full N+N redundancy |
Cooling | Air-cooled with N+1 hot-swap fan solution |
Management | XClarity Controller2 (XCC2), which provides advanced service-processor control, monitoring, and alerting functions. The XCC2 consolidates the service processor functionality, super I/O, video controller, and remote presence capabilities into a single chip on the server system board. |
OS Support | RHEL, Ubuntu, Alma Linux, Rocky Linux, ESXi |
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