Technical specifications
Dell PowerEdge XE9680 — Full Technical Specifications
The XE9680 is Dell's eight-accelerator training system: a very tall chassis whose entire architecture — power, airflow, interconnect and slot layout — exists to serve the accelerator tray. Buyers are training large models, running dense inference fleets, or building the node that a research cluster is designed around. It is ordered new and configured with Dell before it is built; there is no second-hand market to speak of for a machine of this class and age.
Official datasheet
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Full Specifications
This is Dell's own platform sheet and it is the accelerator row that deserves the reading. Several different accelerator families are listed and they are not interchangeable: each brings its own interconnect, its own power envelope and, further down the sheet, its own restrictions on which storage and how many slots remain available. Pick that row first and read the rest of the table as consequences of it. Then read the power and dimensions rows against the actual room — a system in this class arrives with weight, depth and supply demands that decide whether an existing cabinet and circuit can host it at all, and that conversation belongs before the order rather than after.
| Processor | Two 5th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with up to 64 cores per processor; Two 4th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with up to 56 cores per processor |
| Operating System | Canonical® Ubuntu® Server LTS; Red Hat® Enterprise Linux; SUSE Linux Enterprise Server; VMware ESXi |
| Chipset | Intel® C741 chipset |
| Accelerators | 8 NVIDIA HGX H100 80GB 700W SXM5 GPUs, fully interconnected with NVIDIA NVLink technology or,; 8 NVIDIA HGX H200 141GB 700W SXM5 GPUs, fully interconnected with NVIDIA NVLink technology or,; 8 AMD Instinct MI300X 192GB 750W OAM accelerator with AMD Infinity Fabric connectivity,; 8 Intel Gaudi3 128GB 900W OAM accelerator with embedded RoCE ports for ethernet connectivity; |
| Memory | DIMM Speed; Up to 5600 MT/s on the 5th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors; Up to 4800 MT/s on the 4th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors; Memory Type; RDIMM; Memory Module Slots; 32 DDR5 DIMM slots; Maximum RAM; RDIMM 4 TB max |
| Storage | 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; Note: Only 8 x 2.5-inch NVMe SSD drives are supported with Intel Gaudi3.; |
| Storage Controllers | Internal Controllers; PERC H965i (Not supported with Intel Gaudi3); Internal Boot; Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem (NVMe BOSS-N1): HWRAID 1, 2 x M.2 SSDs |
| Security | Cryptographically signed firmware; Data at Rest Encryption (SEDs with local or external key mgmt); Secure Boot; Secured Component Verification (Hardware integrity check); Secure Erase; Silicon Root of Trust; System Lockdown (requires iDRAC9 Enterprise or Datacenter); TPM 2.0 FIPS, CC-TCG certified, TPM 2.0 China NationZ |
| Management | Embedded / At-the-Server; iDRAC9; iDRAC Direct; iDRAC RESTful API with Redfish; iDRAC Service Module; Consoles; CloudIQ for PowerEdge plug in; OpenManage Enterprise; OpenManage Power Manager plugin; OpenManage Service plugin; OpenManage Update Manager plugin; Tools; Dell System Update; Dell Repository Manager; Enterprise Catalogs; iDRAC RESTful API with Redfish; IPMI; RACADM CLI; OpenManage Integrations; BMC Truesight; OpenManage Integration with ServiceNow |
| Power Supplies | 2800W Titanium 200-240 VAC or 240 VDC redundant, hot swap |
| Ports | Network Options; 1 x OCP 3.0 (optional); 2 x 1GbE LOM (optional); 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 |
| Slots | PCIe; Up to 10 x16 Gen5 (x16 PCIe) full-height, half-length (8 PCIe slots with Intel Gaudi3); |
| Bezel | Optional LCD bezel or security bezel |
| Form Factor | 6U rack server |
| Dimensions & Weight | Height; 10.36 in. (263.20 mm); Width; 18.97 in. (482.00 mm); Depth; 39.71 in. (1008.77 mm) with bezel; 39.17 in. (995.00 mm) without bezel; Weight; up to 114.05 kg (251.44 lbs.) |
| Recommended Support | Choose Dell ProSupport Plus for critical systems or Dell ProSupport for premium hardware and software support for your PowerEdge solution. Consulting and deployment offerings are also available. Contact your Dell representative today for more information. Availability and terms of Dell Services vary by region. |
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