ASUS vs ASRock Rack for NVIDIA AI servers.
Side by side from our vendor index: what each firm actually designs, which NVIDIA platforms it ships, and the identity facts that shape a procurement decision. Sources and full detail live on each profile.
ASUS
ASUS designs ESC-series HGX servers and full AI PODs, an original MGX launch partner with its own board engineering. Its server arm is smaller than its brand suggests, but recent neocloud wins have made it a serious quote in AI tenders.
- In-house server design lineage since 1995; ESC GPU-server line and XA rack-scale line designed by its own Infrastructure Business Group
- Designed its own direct liquid cooling from the ground up, claiming PUE 1.18, spanning direct-to-chip, in-row CDU and hybrid configurations
- AI POD is ASUS's own NVIDIA-validated rack-scale reference architecture, evolved through GB300 NVL72 to Vera Rubin NVL72
- Small-volume AI server production in both the US and Taiwan
ASRock Rack
ASRock Rack is the server design arm of the ASRock group and an original MGX launch partner. It designs dense GPU boards and 6U/8U HGX systems popular with neoclouds and crypto-adjacent buyers, usually at sharp prices.
- Designs its own server motherboards, barebones and full rack systems in-house; R&D-centric with manufacturing outsourced to the Pegatron group footprint
- Proprietary direct-to-chip liquid-cooled designs (6U8X-GNR2/DLC, 4U16X-GNR2/ZC families)
- Co-engineered waterless two-phase cooling with ZutaCore for HGX B300, unveiled at OCP Global Summit 2025
- Built the world's most compact GH200 MGX server (MECAI-GH200, 2U short-depth)
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