Dell Precision 7960 Rack
Dell's 2U rack workstation on the Intel C741 chipset: one or two 4th/5th-gen Xeon Scalable CPUs (Silver to Platinum, up to 64 cores each), 16 to 32 DDR5 ECC RDIMM slots for up to 8 TB, eight hot-swap 3.5"/2.5" SATA/SAS bays plus up to 8 M.2 NVMe drives, up to two 300 W double-width GPUs (dual CPU), iDRAC9 Enterprise remote management and redundant hot-plug PSUs up to 2400 W. Built to put workstation-class power in the data center for remote/VDI users.
Memory
- Slots
- 16 DIMM (single CPU, 8 memory channels) or 32 DIMM (dual CPU, 8 channels per CPU)
- Type
- DDR5 ECC RDIMM
- Speed
- 5600 MT/s; drops to 4400 MT/s when 12 or 16 slots are populated on a single CPU, or 24 or 32 slots on two
- DIMM sizes
- 16, 32, 64, 128, 256 GB (the Setup and Specifications guide's summary row says only 16/32/64 GB per slot, but its own configuration table lists 128 GB and 256 GB modules)
- Minimum
- 16 GB (1 × 16 GB)
- Maximum
- 8 TB (32 × 256 GB, dual CPU); 4 TB (16 × 256 GB) with one CPU
- Thermal note
- 128 GB and 256 GB RDIMMs need the ambient temperature limited to 30 °C for best thermal/acoustic performance
Storage
- Bays
- 8 hot-swap bays for 3.5" or 2.5" SATA/SAS drives; drive bays support VROC or the optional PERC RAID controller
- Optical
- Optional slim 9.5 mm 8x DVD-ROM or 8x DVD+/-RW
- Boot drives
- M.2 2280 PCIe NVMe Gen4 x4 Class 40 SSD, 512 GB / 1 TB / 2 TB / 4 TB, boots from a Dell Ultra-Speed Drive Quad or Duo card
- Data drives
- 2.5" 600 GB 15K SAS; 2.5" 1.2 TB / 2.4 TB 10K SAS; 3.5" 2/4/8/12 TB 7.2K SATA; 2.5" 1.92 TB mixed-use SATA SSD
- M.2 NVMe
- Up to 8 × M.2 NVMe SSDs (up to 4 TB each) on two Dell Ultra-Speed Drive Quad x16 PCIe cards; needs a dual-CPU config with a graphics card in the low-profile riser slot
- Onboard SATA
- 2 × Intel chipset 6 Gb/s SATA controllers, 4 ports each (8 total) + 1 port for the optical drive
- Software RAID
- Intel VROC SATA RAID 0/1/5/10 on the first controller's 4 ports only, max 4 drives per set; optional Intel VROC Standard NVMe RAID 0/1/10 (motherboard activation key) on the 1st Ultra-Speed Quad/Duo card, or VROC Premium adds RAID 5
- RAID card
- PERC H755 front SAS: RAID 0/1/5/6/10/50/60, Broadcom SAS3916 ROC, 8 GB DDR4-2666 cache with battery backup, up to 16 drives without an expander, PCIe Gen 4; required for SAS drives
- Total
- Spec sheet: up to 128 TB (8 × 12 TB SATA/SAS bays + 8 × 4 TB M.2 NVMe)
Graphics
- Capacity
- Up to 2 double-width graphics cards in PCIe Gen 5 slots; needs the dual-CPU config and the 1400 W or 2400 W PSU
- NVIDIA Blackwell
- RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell 16 GB GDDR7, RTX Pro 4000 Blackwell 24 GB GDDR7, RTX Pro 4500 Blackwell 32 GB GDDR7, RTX Pro 5000 Blackwell 48 GB GDDR7, RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Max-Q 96 GB GDDR7 (300 W)
- NVIDIA Ada
- RTX 4000 Ada Generation 20 GB, RTX 4500 Ada Generation 24 GB, RTX 5000 Ada Generation 32 GB, RTX 6000 Ada Generation 48 GB GDDR6
- NVIDIA other
- T400 4 GB, T1000 8 GB, RTX A2000 12 GB, RTX A4000 16 GB, RTX A4500 20 GB, RTX A5500 24 GB, RTX A6000 48 GB GDDR6 (all LP/FH); spec sheet also lists entry A1000 8 GB and A400 4 GB; A800 40 GB HBM2 (compute only, no display output, paired with a T1000/A1000 for the monitor)
- AMD
- Radeon Pro W6400 LP/FH 4 GB GDDR6, Radeon Pro W6600 8 GB GDDR6
- Integrated
- Matrox G200eW3 (front and rear VGA; not usable simultaneously, front port takes priority), 1024×768 max
- Video resolution
- Discrete cards output up to 7680×4320 @ 24 bpp at 60-165 Hz depending on the card (needs 2 DisplayPort 1.4a connections with DSC on older cards)
Expansion
- Single CPU
- 1 × PCIe Gen 4 x16 (full height/full length), 1 × PCIe Gen 5 x16 (full height/full length), 1 × PCIe Gen 4 x16 low-profile (full length) — reserved primarily for an NVMe boot card
- Dual CPU (adds)
- 1 × PCIe Gen 5 x16 double-width slot, 2 × PCIe Gen 4 x8 (full height/half length), 1 × PCIe Gen 4 x16 low-profile (full length) — 7 slots total across 4 risers
- Riser 1
- Slots 1-2 (CPU1)
- Riser 2
- Low-profile slots 3 (CPU1) and 6 (CPU2)
- Riser 3
- Slots 4-5 (CPU2)
- Riser 4
- Slot 7/8 double-width (CPU2)
- OCP3
- Dedicated OCP 3.0 NIC slot
- Add-in cards
- Dell Ultra-Speed Drive Quad (x16) and Duo (x8) low-profile M.2 NVMe cards; dual/quad-display Teradici PCoIP remote-workstation cards; single-port serial card
Networking
- Onboard (LOM)
- Broadcom BCM5720 dual-port 1 GbE, 2 × RJ45 (default)
- OCP3.0 options
- Intel i350 quad-port 1000BASE-T; Intel X710-T4L quad-port 10GBASE-T; Intel E810-XXVDA4 quad-port 10/25 GbE SFP28 — each consumes the OCP 3.0 slot
- Management
- Dedicated Broadcom BCM54210 10/100/1000 Ethernet for the iDRAC9 controller (RJ45)
Power
- Options
- 800 W 80 PLUS Platinum, 1100 W Titanium, or 1400 W (120 V)/2400 W (240 V) 80 PLUS Platinum; one or two hot-plug units, redundant
- Input
- 800 W: 90-264 VAC, 10.4 A; 1100 W: 90-132 VAC 13.5 A or 180-264 VAC 7 A; 1400 W: 90-264 VAC, 18 A; 2400 W: 180-264 VAC, 14.9 A
- Output
- +12 V continuous: 65.57 A (800 W) / 86.07 A (1100 W) / 90.16-114.75 A (1400 W) / 196.72 A (2400 W); +12 V standby 2 A on every option
- High-power configs
- Some CPU + GPU combinations need two PSUs run non-redundant to supply enough power; the 1400 W/2400 W PSUs use a C19 cord and need a 20 A circuit at 120 V or 240 V
- Connector
- Golden-finger (cableless) connection to the backplane on every PSU option
Ports
- Front
- 1 × iDRAC Direct (Micro-USB 2.0), 1 × USB 2.0, 1 × VGA (iDRAC POST screen)
- Rear
- 1 × USB 2.0, 1 × USB 3.0 Gen 1, 1 × iDRAC9 Enterprise dedicated network RJ45, 1 × VGA (iDRAC POST screen, disabled by default under Linux), 2 × RJ45 1 GbE (LOM)
- Media/audio
- None
Physical
- Form
- 2U rack
- Height
- 86.8 mm (3.42 in.)
- Width
- 482 mm front (18.98 in.); 434 mm rear (17.08 in.)
- Depth
- 772.13 mm with bezel (30.40 in.)
- Weight
- 20.98 kg minimum (46.25 lb) to 29.64 kg maximum (65.36 lb)
- Mounting
- Slide-rail mounting holes on the chassis; removable top cover
- Environment
- Operating 10-35 °C, 20-80% RH non-condensing; storage -40-65 °C, 5-95% RH; operating altitude -15.2 to 3050 m
Management
- BMC
- iDRAC9 Enterprise, dedicated network connector (rear RJ45)
- Security
- Discrete TPM 2.0, chassis intrusion switch, coin-locker chassis lock, lockable bezel for the front-facing storage FlexBay (included with M.2 NVMe drives, optional with SATA)
- Firmware
- 32 MB + 16 MB SPI flash
Operating systems
- Windows
- Windows 11 Pro for Workstations; Windows 11 Pro for Workstations downgrade (Windows 10 Pro for Workstations factory image); Windows 10 CMIT Government Edition, 64-bit (China only)
- Linux
- Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Setup and Specifications guide, Aug 2026) or 24.04 (spec sheet); Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 (guide) or 9.3 (spec sheet) — the two Dell documents disagree on the current versions
Processors
- Intel Xeon Silver 4410Y
- Intel Xeon Silver 4416+
- Intel Xeon Silver 4509Y
- Intel Xeon Silver 4510
- Intel Xeon Silver 4514Y
- Intel Xeon Gold 5415+
- Intel Xeon Gold 5418Y
- Intel Xeon Gold 5420+
- Intel Xeon Gold 6426Y
- Intel Xeon Gold 6430
- Intel Xeon Gold 6434
- Intel Xeon Gold 6442Y
- Intel Xeon Gold 6444Y
- Intel Xeon Gold 6448Y
- Intel Xeon Gold 6526Y
- Intel Xeon Gold 6534
- Intel Xeon Gold 6542Y
- Intel Xeon Gold 6548Y+
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8452Y
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8460Y+
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8462Y+
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8468
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8470
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8480+
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8562Y+
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8568Y+
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8580
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8592+