The Dell PowerEdge XE9680 is Dell's foundational, no-compromise, flagship server for maximum accelerated computing, designed to tackle the most complex and data-intensive AI training, Deep Learning (DL), and High-Performance Computing (HPC) workloads.

Full Technical Specifications

Component	Specification
Form Factor	6U Rack Server (Original maximum-accelerator chassis)
Cooling	Air-cooled standard (Robust fan system); Liquid-cooled options available for high-TDP configurations (e.g., Cold plates for CPU/GPU)
Processor	Dual 4th or 5th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors (up to 64 cores per processor)
Accelerators (GPU/OAM)	Up to 8x HGX/OAM Accelerators (fully interconnected): • NVIDIA HGX H100 / H200 (SXM5) with NVLink • AMD Instinct MI300X (OAM) with Infinity Fabric • Intel Gaudi 3 (OAM) with embedded RoCE ports
Memory	32 DDR5 DIMM slots, max 4 TB RDIMM, speeds up to 5600 MT/s (with 5th Gen Intel)
PCIe Expansion	Up to 10 x16 Gen5 full-height slots (for additional I/O and networking)
Storage (Front Bays)	Up to 8 x 2.5-inch NVMe/SAS/SATA SSDs OR up to 16 x E3.S EDSFF NVMe drives
Boot Storage	Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem (NVMe BOSS-N1) with HWRAID 1 (2 x M.2 SSDs)
RAID Controller	PERC H965i, S160 (Software RAID)
Management	iDRAC9 with enhanced GPU telemetry, OpenManage Enterprise (OME)
Workloads	GenAI, LLM Training, Deep Learning, HPC Modeling & Simulation

Description

The Dell PowerEdge XE9680 is the original flagship 6U acceleration server in the Dell portfolio, built for no-compromise AI and HPC performance. It is distinguished by its silicon diversity, offering customers a choice of up to 8 fully interconnected, high-wattage accelerators—including the NVIDIA HGX H200/H100, AMD Instinct MI300X OAM, and Intel Gaudi 3 OAM.

Powered by dual Intel Xeon Scalable processors, the XE9680 is engineered with massive memory (up to 4 TB DDR5) and I/O capacity (up to 10 PCIe Gen 5 slots) to prevent bottlenecks in large-scale training and simulation jobs. While its standard configuration is robustly air-cooled, it can be configured with liquid cooling components to support maximum thermal design power (TDP) workloads. The XE9680's open, powerful architecture makes it the ultimate platform for developing the most demanding Generative AI (GenAI) and Deep Learning models.