According to media reports, ASUS launches ET900N G3 workstation,which is already listed at several retailers in the U.S. The price starts from $99,999.
ET900N G3 is equipped it with an Nvidia Grace Blackwell Ultra desktop superchip, which features 72 ARM Neoverse V2 processor cores and a Blackwell Ultra graphics chip. The processor is paired with 496 GB of LPDDR5X RAM with a bandwidth of 396 GB/s, while the graphics chip can access 252 GB of HBM3e VRAM with an impressive bandwidth of 7.1 TB/s. The memory pool, which totals 748 GB, can be combined to process larger AI models.
In terms of AI computing power, the maximum performance can reach 20 PetaFLOPS at FP4 precision.
In terms of expandability, the ET900N G3 is equipped with three PCIe 5.0 slots. One of the slots supports additional installation of NVIDIA graphics cards, enabling larger memory capacity and model scaling via NVLink-C2C interconnection and ConnectX-8 SuperNIC networking. It also supports four M.2 2280 NVMe PCIe 5.0 SSDs with a maximum total capacity of 8TB.