Dell PowerEdge XE9685L
The AMD counterpart to the XE9680L: a 4U, 2-socket direct-liquid-cooled server pairing 5th Gen AMD EPYC 9005 Series (Turin) processors with 8-way NVIDIA HGX B200 GPUs for large-scale AI training, fine-tuning and inferencing.
Memory
- Slots
- 24 DDR5 RDIMM (12 per socket, 12 channels per socket)
- Max
- 3 TB
- Speed
- Up to 6400 MT/s (1DPC)
- Type
- Registered ECC DDR5 RDIMM only; UDIMMs not supported
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, fully interconnected with NVIDIA 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); supported cards include Broadcom and Mellanox 25 GbE SFP28 (2-port)
Power
- Supplies
- 6 x 3000 W AC Titanium, multi-rated (3000 W at 209.1-240 VAC or 240 VDC; 2800 W at 200-209 VAC), hot-swap; 3+3 FTR or 5+1 redundancy
- Cooling
- Direct liquid cooling for CPUs, GPUs and NVLink switches; up to 6 HPR Gold fans on top layer + up to 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
- 91.63 kg (202.00 lb)
- Form factor
- 4U rack server
Management
- Embedded
- iDRAC9, iDRAC Direct, iDRAC RESTful API with Redfish, iDRAC Service Module, Dell Connectivity Client
- 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
- AMD EPYC 9965
- AMD EPYC 9755
- AMD EPYC 9655
- AMD EPYC 9575F
- AMD EPYC 9455