The Dell PowerEdge XE9680 is a high-performance server designed and optimized for AI training & HPC use cases like • Large language Models • Recommendation engines • Molecular Dynamics and Genome Sequencing
Technical specification | PowerEdge XE9680 |
Processor | Two 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with up to 56 cores per processor |
Memory | • 32 DDR5 DIMM slots, supports RDIMM 4 TB max, speeds up to 4800 MT/s • Supports registered ECC DDR5 DIMMs only |
GPU | • 8 NVIDIA HGX H100 80GB 700W SXM5 GPUs, fully interconnected with NVIDIA NVLink technology • 8 NVIDIA HGX A100 80GB 500W SXM4 GPUs, fully interconnected with NVIDIA NVLink technology • 8 AMD Instinct MI300X 192GB 750W OAM accelerator with AMD Infinity Fabric connectivity |
Storage controllers | • Internal boot: Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem (NVMe BOSS-N1): HWRAID 1, 2 x M.2 SSDs • Software RAID: S160 |
Drive bays | Front Bays • Up to 8 x 2.5-inch NVMe/SAS/SATA SSD drives max 122.88 TB • Up to 16 x E3.S NVMe direct drives max 122.88 TB |
Power Supplies | 2800W Titanium 200-240 VAC or 240 VDC, hot swap redundant |
Cooling Options | Air cooling |
chipset | Intel® C741 chipset |
PCIe | Up to 10 x16 Gen5 (x16 PCIe) full-height, half-length |
Embedded NIC | 2 x 1 GbE |
Network Options | 1 x OCP 3.0 (x8 PCIe lanes) |
Fans | • Up to six high performance (HPR) gold grade fans installed in mid tray • Up to ten high performance (HPR) gold grade fans installed on the rear of the system • All are hot swap fans |
Dimensions and weight | • Height — 263.2 mm (10.36 inches) • Width — 482.0 mm (18.97 inches) • Depth — 1008.77 mm (39.71 inches) with bezel — 995 mm (39.17 inches) without bezel • Weight —113.3 kg (249.78 pounds) |
Form Factor | 6U rack server |
Warranty | 3 Years |
Ports | Front ports • 1 x iDRAC Direct (Micro-AB USB) port • 1 x USB 2.0 • 1 x VGA Rear ports • 1 x USB 2.0 • 1 x USB 3.0 • 1 x VGA • 1 x RJ45 iDRAC9 ethernet port |