Dell PowerEdge XE9680 vs NVIDIA DGX H100
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell PowerEdge XE9680 is an enterprise 6U rack server powered by 2 Intel Xeon Scalable 4th Gen and 5th Gen (up to 2x 64 cores, 350W TDP) and 32 memory slots supporting up to 4096GB DDR5-4800 / DDR5-5600 RDIMM. The NVIDIA DGX H100 is an 8U eight-GPU system with eight H100 SXM GPUs and 640 GB of total GPU memory, two 56-core Intel Xeon 8480C processors and 2 TB of system memory.
| Dell PowerEdge XE9680 | NVIDIA DGX H100 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | NVIDIA |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Mar 2023 | 2022 |
| Form factor | 6U rack | 8U rackmount |
| Cpu sockets | 2 | 2 |
| Cpu platform | Intel Xeon Scalable 4th Gen and 5th Gen (up to 2x 64 cores, 350W TDP) | 2x Intel Xeon 8480C, 56 cores each, 2.0/2.9/3.8 GHz (base/all-core turbo/max turbo) |
| Memory slots | 32 | — |
| Memory type | DDR5-4800 / DDR5-5600 RDIMM | 2 TB using 32 DIMMs |
| Memory max (GB) | 4,096 | 2,048 |
| Drive bays | Up to 16x 2.5-inch NVMe U.2 / U.3 or E3.S SSDs | 2x 1.92 TB NVMe M.2 (OS, RAID 1) and 8x 3.84 TB NVMe U.2 SED (data cache, RAID 0) |
| Pcie slots | Up to 10 PCIe Gen5 slots (dedicated for InfiniBand / RoCE networking) | — |
| Gpu support | 8x NVIDIA H100 / H200 / B200 SXM5 GPUs with NVLink (700W each) or 8x AMD Instinct MI300X OAM | 8x NVIDIA H100 SXM GPUs |
| Network onboard | Up to 8x 400Gb/s QSFP-DD PCIe NICs plus dedicated 1GbE iDRAC9 port | 8x ConnectX-7 single-port InfiniBand cards (compute), 2x ConnectX-7 dual-port Ethernet cards (storage and in-band management), 1 GbE BMC port |
| Power supply | Six hot-plug 2800W or 3000W Titanium redundant power supplies (3+3) | 6 power supplies, 3300 W each at 200-240 V |
| Gpu memory (GB) | — | 640 |
| Weight kg | — | 130.45 |
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