Dell PowerEdge XE9680
Dell's first 8-way GPU platform: a 6U, 2-socket Intel Xeon Scalable air-cooled server built for the largest generative-AI training and HPC workloads, with a choice of NVIDIA, AMD or Intel 8-GPU baseboards.
Memory
- Slots
- 32 DDR5 RDIMM
- Max
- 4 TB
- Speed
- Up to 5600 MT/s 1DPC / 4400 MT/s 2DPC (5th Gen Xeon); up to 4800 MT/s 1DPC / 4400 MT/s 2DPC (4th Gen Xeon)
- Type
- Registered ECC DDR5 RDIMM only
Storage
- Bays
- Up to 8 x 2.5" NVMe/SAS/SATA SSD, 122.88 TB max, or 16 x E3.S NVMe direct, 122.88 TB max (8 x 2.5" NVMe only with Intel Gaudi3)
- Controllers
- PERC H965i (not supported with Gaudi3); Internal boot BOSS-N1 (HWRAID 1, 2 x M.2 SSD); Software RAID S160 NVMe
Graphics
- Options
- 8 x NVIDIA HGX H100 80GB 700W SXM5, 8 x H200 141GB 700W SXM5, 8 x H20 96GB 500W SXM5, or 8 x NVIDIA HGX A100 80GB 500W SXM4, or 8 x AMD Instinct MI300X 192GB 750W OAM, or 8 x Intel Gaudi3 128GB 900W OAM
Expansion
- Slots
- 10 x PCIe Gen5 x16 full-height half-length (8 general-purpose + 2 for SmartNIC/DPU); only 8 slots with Intel Gaudi3 (slots 33 and 38 unavailable)
Networking
- Embedded NIC
- 2 x 1 GbE LOM
- OCP
- 1 x OCP 3.0 card slot (x8 PCIe lanes)
- OSFP
- 6 x 800 Gb embedded OSFP ports (Intel Gaudi3 configuration only)
Power
- Supplies
- Up to 6 x 3200 W AC Titanium (US/Canada only), or 3000 W AC Titanium (Gaudi3 only, multi-rated), or 2800 W AC Titanium; 5+1 or 3+3 FTR redundancy
- Cooling
- Air cooling; up to 6 HPR Gold fans on mid tray plus up to 10 (12 with Gaudi3) HPR Gold fans on rear
Ports
- Front
- 1 x iDRAC Direct (Micro-AB USB), 1 x USB 2.0, 1 x VGA
- Rear
- 1 x USB 2.0, 1 x USB 3.0, 1 x VGA, 1 x RJ-45 dedicated iDRAC9 Ethernet port
Physical
- Dimensions
- 263.2 x 482.0 x 1008.77 mm (10.36 x 18.97 x 39.71 in) with bezel; 995 mm (39.17 in) deep without bezel
- Weight
- Up to 114.05 kg (251.44 lb)
- Form factor
- 6U rack server
Management
- Embedded
- iDRAC9, iDRAC Direct, iDRAC RESTful API with Redfish, iDRAC Service Module
- Security
- Cryptographically signed firmware, Secure Boot, Silicon Root of Trust, Secured Component Verification, Secure Erase, System Lockdown, SED data-at-rest encryption, TPM 2.0 FIPS/CC-TCG
Operating systems
- Supported
- Canonical Ubuntu Server LTS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (A100/H100/H200/H20/MI300X/Gaudi3); VMware ESXi (H100 only)
Processors
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8592+
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8580
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8568Y+
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8562Y+
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8480+
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8470
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8468
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8462Y+
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8460Y+
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8452Y
- Intel Xeon Gold 6548Y+
- Intel Xeon Gold 6542Y
- Intel Xeon Gold 6448Y
- Intel Xeon Gold 6442Y