Dell PowerEdge XE8640 vs Supermicro GPU SuperServer 8U HGX AI SuperServer
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell PowerEdge XE8640 is an air-cooled 4U four-way GPU enterprise server purpose-built for artificial intelligence model development, fine-tuning, and enterprise machine learning workloads. The Supermicro 8U HGX AI SuperServer platform is engineered for large language model (LLM) training and petascale artificial intelligence workloads.
| Dell PowerEdge XE8640 | Supermicro GPU SuperServer 8U HGX AI SuperServer | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | Supermicro |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | May 2023 | Nov 2020 |
| Form factor | 4U rack | 8U rack |
| Cpu sockets | 2 | — |
| Cpu platform | Intel Xeon Scalable 4th and 5th Gen (up to 2 processors, 350W TDP) | — |
| Memory slots | 32 | 32 |
| Memory type | DDR5-4800 / DDR5-5600 RDIMM | — |
| Memory max (GB) | 4,096 | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 8x 2.5-inch NVMe U.2 / U.3 or E3.S SSDs | — |
| Pcie slots | Up to 4 PCIe Gen5 slots | — |
| Gpu support | 4x air-cooled NVIDIA H100 SXM5 GPUs with NVLink (700W each) | 8-way NVIDIA HGX H100 / A100 SXM |
| Network onboard | OCP 3.0 mezzanine slot; 1x 1GbE iDRAC9 port | — |
| Power supply | Quad hot-plug 2800W Titanium power supplies (2+2) | — |
| Form factor | — | 8U rack |
| Sockets | — | 2 |
| Processor family | — | Intel Xeon Scalable / AMD EPYC |
| Max memory | — | 8TB |
| Power supplies | — | 6x 3000W Redundant Titanium |
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