Dell PowerEdge XE9680L

A 4U, 2-socket direct-liquid-cooled companion to the XE9680: denser rack-scale packaging for 8-way NVIDIA HGX B200/H200 GPU training and inferencing with 5th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors.

Memory

Slots

32 DDR5 RDIMM, 288-pin

Max

4 TB

Speed

Up to 5600 MT/s (1DPC) / 4400 MT/s (2DPC)

Type

Registered ECC DDR5 RDIMM only

Storage

Bays

Up to 8 x 2.5" NVMe SSD, 122.88 TB max (PSB direct-attach)

Controllers

Internal boot: BOSS-N1 (HWRAID 1, 2 x M.2 SSD); no RAID controller for front NVMe bays

Graphics

Options

8 x NVIDIA HGX B200 180GB 1000W SXM6 GPUs, or 8 x NVIDIA HGX H200 141GB 700W SXM5 GPUs, fully interconnected with NVLink

Expansion

Slots

Up to 12 x PCIe Gen5 x16 full-height half-length (10 general-purpose + 2 for NIC/SmartNIC/DPU)

Networking

Embedded NIC

2 x 1 GbE LOM

OCP

1 x OCP 3.0 card slot (x8 PCIe lanes)

Power

Supplies

6 x 2800 W AC Titanium (H200 GPUs) or 6 x 3000 W AC Titanium (B200 GPUs), 200-240 VAC or 240 VDC, hot-swap; 3+3 FTR or 5+1 redundancy

Cooling

Direct liquid cooling for CPUs, GPUs and NVLink switches; 6 HPR Gold fans on top layer + 6 HPR Gold fans on bottom layer

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 RJ-45 dedicated iDRAC9 Ethernet port

Physical

Dimensions

174.3 mm height (6.86 in); width 447 mm upper 2U / 434 mm lower 2U (17.59 / 17.08 in); depth 1037.57 mm (40.82 in) with bezel, 1025.62 mm (40.37 in) without

Weight

95.60 kg (206.35 lb)

Form factor

4U 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

Processors

• Intel Xeon Platinum 8592+
• Intel Xeon Platinum 8580
• Intel Xeon Platinum 8570
• Intel Xeon Platinum 8568Y+
• Intel Xeon Platinum 8562Y+