Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers

Quick Reference Guide

Dell PowerEdge rack servers help you build a modern infrastructure that minimizes IT challenges and drives business success. Our Quick Reference Guide (QRG) includes a condensed
view of our entire rack server portfolio.

Rack Server R760 R660 R7625 R6625 R7615 R6615 R660xs R760xs HS5610*** HS5620***

Key attributes Provides performance and Provides performance and Breakthrough performance Breakthrough performance Powerful performance and Peak performance and Right-sized for the most Right-sized for the most Open ecosystem optimized Open ecosystem optimized
versatility for demanding versatility for demanding scalability excellent TCO popular IT applications popular IT applications for compute workloads for storage dense
applications applications workloads
Target workloads Mixed Workload High Density Virtualization, High Performance High Performance Software-Defined Storage Virtualization, Virtualization, Cloud, Scale- Virtualization, Virtualization, Scale-out Virtualization, Medium VM
Standardization Dense Database Computing (HPC), Virtual Computing (HPC), Virtual (SDS), Virtualization, Data Hyper-Converged Out Database, Software-Defined Storage, database, Software- Density or VDI, Software-
Database and Analytics Analytics, Mixed Workload Desktop Infrastructure Desktop Infrastructure Analytics Infrastructure (HCI), High Performance Medium density VM or VDI Defined Storage Node Defined Storage Node
Virtual Desktop Standardization (VDI), Virtualization (VDI), Virtualization Network Functions Compute (HPC)
Infrastructure Virtualization (NFV)
Type of processor 2 x 4th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors; 2 x AMD EPYC™ 4th Generation 9004 Series Processor, 1 x AMD EPYC™ 4th Generation 9004 series processor; 2 x 5th generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors 2 x 5th generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
up to 56 cores per processor or up to 128 cores per processor up to 128 cores with up to 28 cores or with up to 32 cores or
2 x 5th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors; 2 x 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with 2 x 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with
up to 64 cores per processor up to 32 cores per processor up to 32 cores per processor
DDR5 DIMM slots 32 (8 TB) 24 (6 TB) 12 (3 TB) 16 (1.5 TB) 16 (1.5 TB) 16 (2 TB) 16 (2 TB)
(max capacity)
Disk drives up to: 12 x 3.5” 8 x 2.5” 8 x 3.5” 4 x 3.5” 8 x 3.5” 4 x 3.5” 4 x 3.5” 12 x 3.5” 4 x 3.5” 12 x 3.5”
8 x 2.5” 10 x 2.5” 12 x 3.5” 8 x 2.5” 12 x 3.5” 8 x 2.5” 8 x 2.5” 8 x 3.5” 8 x 2.5” 8 x 3.5”
16 x 2.5” 2 x 2.5” (rear) 8 x 2.5” 10 x 2.5” 8 x 2.5” 10 x 2.5” 10 x 2.5” 8 x 2.5” 6 x NVMe 8 x 2.5”
24 x 2.5” 10 x 2.5” 16 x 2.5” 14 x E3.S 16 x 2.5” 14 x E3.S 2 x 2.5” (rear) 16 x 2.5” + 8 x NVMe 10 x 2.5” 16 x 2.5” + 8 x NVMe
16 x E3.S 14 x E3.S 24 x 2.5” 16 x E3.S 24 x 2.5” 16 x E3.S 2 x 2.5” (rear) 2 x 2.5” (rear) 2 x 2.5” (rear)
2 x 2.5” (rear) 16 x E3.S 2 x 2.5” (rear) 2 x 2.5” (rear) 2 x 2.5” (rear) 2 x 2.5” (rear)
4 x 2.5” (rear) 2 x 2.5” (rear) 4 x 2.5” (rear) 2 x E3.S (rear) 4 x 2.5” (rear) 2 x E3.S (rear)
4 x E3.S (rear) 2 x E3.S (rear) 4 x E3.S (rear) 4 x E3.S (rear)
NVMe drives up to: 24 10 24 10 24 10 10 8 10 8
Gen5 PCIe slots 4 2 4 2 4 2 2 2 2 2
up to:
Gen4 PCIe slots 8 3 8 3 4 3 3 4 3 4
up to:
Accelerator support 2 x 350 W DW or 3 x 75 W SW 2 x 300 W DW or 3 x 75 W SW 3 x 300 W DW or 3 x 75 W SW N/A 2 x 75 W SW N/A 2 x 75 W SW
up to: 6 x 75 W SW 6 x 75 W SW 6 x 75 W SW
Rack height (U) 2 1 2 1 2 1 1 2 1 2

Integrated security TPM 2.0 FIPS, CC-TCG certified, TPM 2.0 China NationZ, Cryptographically Signed TPM 2.0 FIPS, CC-TCG certified, TPM 2.0 China NationZ, Cryptographically Signed TPM 2.0 FIPS, CC-TCG certified, TPM 2.0 China NationZ, Cryptographically Signed Firmware, Chassis Intrusion
Firmware, Chassis Intrusion Alert, Secure Boot being standard security, Silicon Root Firmware, Secure Boot, Secure Erase, Silicon Root of Trust, System Lockdown Alert, Secure Boot being standard security, Silicon Root of Trust, System Lockdown (requires iDRAC9 Enterprise
of Trust, System Lockdown (requires iDRAC9 Enterprise or Datacenter), Data at Rest (requires iDRAC9 Enterprise or Datacenter), AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) or Datacenter), Data at Rest Encryption (SEDs with local or external key mgmt) Secured Component Verification
Encryption (SEDs with local or external key mgmt) Secured Component Verification and AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) (Hardware integrity check) and System Erase on all racks.
(Hardware integrity check) and System Erase on all racks.

*** HS560 and HS5620 are offered exclusively through the Hyperscale Next program for select customers
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Rack Server R960 R860 R760xa R760xd2 XE9680 XE8640 XR7620 XR5610 R360

Key attributes Extreme acceleration for Power business-critical, core High performance, scalable Dense storage, faster retrieval No-compromise accelerated Faster ML/DL training and Edge-optimized high- High-performance, short Streamlined productivity, high-
business continuity and workloads with high-density server for intensive GPU and scalability AI training performance, HPC performance, 4U performance, high-capacity depth, rugged, reverse speed memory and capacity,
scale out compute applications Flexibility to choose H100 or 2-socket server, up to 35C short-depth 2U 2-socket server mounting, filtered bezel, -5C to enterprise GPU, and powerful
A100 8-way SXM GPUs, 6U ambient, standard rack depth 55C operating temperatures compute to address common
2-socket with support up to business applications.
35C ambient
Target workloads Large in-memory databases, Data analytics, AI and AI/ML/DL training and File and object storage, Video Large model training, natural HPC Modeling and Industrial automation, video vRAN, D-RAN, O-RAN, Collaboration and Sharing,
virtualization, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) inferencing capturing & surveillance, Video language processing, Simulation, seismic analysis, analytics, point of sale Industrial automation, video Mail and Messaging, Database
Digital Twins, render graphics streaming recommendation engines, computational fluid dynamics, analytics, AI inferencing, edge analytics, point of sale
Virtualization and VDI graphics conversational AI, translation, Oil & Gas, AI/ML training, asset data aggregation and analytics, AI inferencing, edge
drug discovery object detection, image analytics asset data aggregation and
classification analytics
Type of processor 4 x 4th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors; up to 2 x 4th Generation Intel® 2 x 4th Generation Intel® 2 x 4th Generation Intel® 2 x 4th Generation Intel® 2 x 4th Generation Intel® 1 x 4th Generation Intel® 1 x Intel Xeon E-2400 series
60 cores per processor and with optional Intel® QuickAssist Xeon® Scalable processors; Xeon® Scalable processors; Xeon® Scalable processors; Xeon® Scalable processors; Xeon® Scalable processors; Xeon® Scalable processors; processor with up to 8 cores
Technology up to 56 cores per processor up to 32 cores per processor up to 56 cores per processor up to 56 cores per processor up to 32 cores per processor up to 32 cores per processor or 1 x Intel Pentium processor
or or with 2 cores
2 x 5th Generation Intel® 2 x 5th Generation Intel®
Xeon® Scalable processors; Xeon® Scalable processors;
up to 64 cores per processor up to 28 cores per processor
DDR5 DIMM slots 64 (16 TB) 32 (8 TB) 16 (1.5TB) 32 (4 TB) 32 (4 TB) 16 (1 TB) 8 (1 TB) 4 (128 GB)
(max capacity)
Disk drives up to: 8 x 2.5” 8 x 2.5” 6 x 2.5” 12 x 3.5” (Front bay) + 12 x 8 x 2.5” 8 x 2.5” 4 x 2.5” 4 x 2.5” 4 x 3.5”
16 x 2.5” 16 x 2.5” 8 x 2.5” 3.5” (Mid bay) 8 x E3.S 8 x 2.5
24 x 2.5” 24 x 2.5” 6 x E3.S 2 x 2.5” or 4 x 2.5” or 4 x 3.5”
32 x 2.5” 8 x E3.S or 4 x E3.S (rear)
16 x E3.S 2 x 2.5” (rear)
8 x 2.5” + 16 x E3.S
NVMe drives up to: 24 24 8 4 8 8 4 4 N/A
Gen5 PCIe slots 12 8 12 N/A 10 4 2 2 N/A
up to:
Gen4 PCIe slots N/A 4 N/A 5 N/A N/A 5 N/A 2
up to:
Accelerator support 4 x 400 W DW N/A 4 x 350 W DW or 12 x 75 W 2 x 75 W SW , 1 x 75 W SW + 8 NVIDIA HGX H100 80 GB 4 NVIDIA HGX H100 80 GB 4 x 150 W SW or 2 x 300 W 2 x 75 W SW 1 x 60 W SW
up to: SW 1 x 150 W SW or 1 x 180 W 700 W SXM5 GPUs or 8 700 W SXM5 GPUs, fully DW
DW NVIDIA HGX A100 80 GB interconnected with NVIDIA
500 W SXM4 GPUs, fully NVLink technology
interconnected with NVIDIA
NVLink technology
Rack height (U) 4 2 2 2 6 4 2 1 1

Integrated security TPM 2.0 FIPS, CC-TCG certified, TPM 2.0 China NationZ, Cryptographically Signed Firmware, Chassis Intrusion Alert, Secure Boot being standard security, Silicon Root of Trust, System Lockdown (requires iDRAC9 Enterprise or Datacenter), Data at Rest Encryption (SEDs with local or external
key mgmt) Secured Component Verification (Hardware integrity check) and System Erase on all racks.
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Rack Server R750 R750xa R650 R7525 R6525 R7515 R6515 R750xs R650xs R450 R550 XR11 XR12 R350 R250

Key attributes Outstanding Highly High scalability, Powerful Dense Powerful High density Purpose-built Purpose-built, Value and Versatile, Edge-centric, Edge-centric, Powerful performance Powerful compute for
performance intensive GPU optimized performance virtualization performance compute 2U server for full performance density- value-optimized, short depth short depth and in 1U server for common business
for the most workloads workload and flexibility and scalability growing scale- 1U server for focused, built virtualization- and rugged rugged with reverse productivity and data applications and
demanding performance out solutions dense, fast for general ready, built with reverse mounting options intensive applications streamlines productivity
workloads growing scale- purpose IT for general mounting
out solutions purpose IT options
Target workloads Database and AI, ML or DL Mixed workload All flash SDS, HPC, Dense SDS, Virtualization, Virtualization, Virtualization, Small IT Small IT Telco/5G (MEC, Telco/5G (MEC, Small mid-sized Small mid-sized
analytics, HPC, training or standardization, VDI, and data VDI, and Virtualization, HCI and NFV medium VM cloud, scale-out infrastructure, infrastructure, CDN, vRAN), CDN, vRAN), businesses, remote businesses, remote
traditional inferencing, database and analytics Virtualization and Data density or VDI, database and light VM, small light VM density, Military, Retail Military, Retail office/branch office, office/branch office,
corporate IT, HPC, and analytics, HFT, Analytics and scale- highperformance business small business (Analytics (Analytics - video collaboration and collaboration and
VDI, AI, or ML vitualization traditional out database compute specific specific - video surveillance/POS/ sharing, data analytics sharing, mail/messaging
environments environments corporate IT, VDI, workloads workloads workloads workloads surveillance/ IOT aggregation) and virtualization and file/print workloads
HPC, AI, or ML POS/IOT workloads
environments aggregation)
Type of processor 2 x 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors; 2 x 2nd or 3rd Generation AMD 1 x 2nd or 3rd Generation AMD 2 x 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® 2 x 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® 1 x 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® 1 x Intel Xeon E-2300 series processors with
up to 40 cores per processor EPYCTM processors; up to EPYCTM processor; up to 64 cores Scalable processors; up to 32 cores Scalable processors; up to Scalable processors; up to 36 cores up to 8 cores or 1 x Intel Pentium processor with
64 cores per processor per processor per processor 24 cores per processor per processor up to 2 cores
DDR4 DIMM slots 32 (8 TB) 32 (4 TB) 16 (2 TB) 16 (1 TB) 8 (1 TB) 4 (128 GB)
(max capacity)
Disk drives up to: 12 x 3.5” 6 x 2.5” 4 x 3.5” 12 x 3.5” 4 x 3.5” 12 x 3.5” 4 x 3.5” 8 x 3.5” 4 x 3.5” 4 x 3.5” 8 x 3.5” 4 x 2.5” 6 x 2.5” 4 x 3.5” 4 x 3.5”
8 x 2.5” 8 x 2.5” 8 x 2.5” 26 x 2.5” 12 x 2.5” 24 x 2.5” 8 x 2.5” 12 x 3.5” 8 x 2.5” 8 x 2.5” 8 x 2.5” 8 x 2.5” 4 x 3.5” (cabled)
16 x 2.5” 10 x 2.5” 8 x 2.5” 10 x 2.5” 16 x 2.5” 2 x 3.5” (cabled)
24 x 2.5” 2 x 2.5” (rear) 16 x 2.5 + 8 x 2 x 2.5” (rear)
2 x 2.5” or 2.5”
4 x 2.5” (rear)
NVMe drives up to: 24 8 12 24 12 24 10 8 10 N/A 4 6 N/A
Gen4 PCIe slots 8 8 3 8 3 2 1 5 3 2 3 3 5 3 2
up to:
Gen3 PCIe slots N/A 2 1 1 N/A 1 N/A
up to:
Accelerator support 2 x 300 W DW or 4 x 150 W SW 3 x 75 W SW 3 x 300 W DW 3 x SW 4 x SW; 1 x SW N/A 2 x 75 W SW 2 x 75 W or N/A
up to: 4 x 150 W SW or or or 1 x DW; 150 W SW
6 x 75 W SW 4 x 300 W DW 6 x 75 W SW 1 x FPGA 2 x 300 W DW
2 x 75 W SW
Rack height (U) 2 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 1 2 1 2 1 1
Integrated security TPM 1.2/2.0 FIPS, CC-TCG certified, TPM 2.0 China NationZ, Cryptographically Signed Firmware, Chassis Intrusion Alert, and Secure Boot being standard security on all racks. Integrated security features such as Silicon Root of Trust, System Lockdown (requires iDRAC9 Enterprise
or Datacenter), and System Erase on all racks
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Rack Server R940 R940xa R840 R740xd R740 R740xd2 R640 R540 R440 R340 R240

Key attributes Powerful performance Extreme acceleration Turbocharge data Scalable storage Optimal application Enterprise content Performance and Balanced and adaptable Scale-out computing Accelerate business Compute made simple
analytics performance performance server density growth
Target workloads In-memory databases GPU database Data-intensive SDS, service providers, VDI and cloud Media streaming and Dense scale-out data Mail messaging and HPC, web tech, and ROBO productivity Small business and
acceleration and workloads, HFT, and and big data servers workloads SDS center computing and virtualization scale-out infrastructure and data-intensive service provider
machine learning dense virtualization storage applications workloads
Type of processor 4 x 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors 2 x 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors 1 x Intel Xeon E-2200, Intel Core i3®,
Intel Pentium®, or Intel Celeron® processor
DDR4 DIMM slots (max 48 (15.36 TB) 24 (7.68 TB) 16 (1 TB) 24 (7.68 TB) 16 (1 TB) 4 (64 GB)
capacity)
Disk drives up to: 24 x 2.5” 32 x 2.5” 26 x 2.5” 18 x 3.5” 8 x 3.5” 26 x 3.5” 4 x 3.5” 14 x 3.5” 4 x 3.5” 4 x 3.5” 4 x 3.5”
32 x 2.5” 16 x 2.5” 16 x 3.5” + 12 x 2.5” 10 x 2.5” 8 x 2.5” 4 x 2.5”2
10 x 2.5”2
NVMe drives up to: 12 4 24 N/A 10 N/A 4 N/A
Gen4 PCIe slots up to: N/A
Gen3 PCIe slots up to: 13 12 6 8 5 3 5 2 2
Accelerator support N/A 4 x DW GPUs or 4 x DW 2 x DW GPUs or 2 x SW 3 x DW or 6 x SW GPUs or N/A 1 x SW GPU or N/A
up to: or 8 x SW FPGAs or DW FPGAs 3 x DW or 4 x SW FPGAs 1 x SW FPGA

Rack height (U) 3 4 2 1 2 1 1

Integrated security TPM 1.2/2.0 FIPS, CC-TCG certified, TPM 2.0 China NationZ, Cryptographically Signed Firmware, Chassis Intrusion Alert, and Secure Boot being standard security on all racks. Integrated security features such as Silicon Root of Trust, System Lockdown (requires iDRAC9 Enterprise or
Datacenter), and System Erase on all racks
1
Not all features are available on all platforms.
2
Drives use hybrid carrier to fit in 3.5” drive bay. (For the R740xd2 - a hybrid configuration is available with up to 10 2.5” SSDs)
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