Dell PowerEdge XE9680 vs Supermicro GPU SuperServer 8U HGX AI SuperServer
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 Supermicro 8U HGX AI SuperServer platform is engineered for large language model (LLM) training and petascale artificial intelligence workloads.
| Dell PowerEdge XE9680 | Supermicro GPU SuperServer 8U HGX AI SuperServer | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | Supermicro |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Mar 2023 | Nov 2020 |
| Form factor | 6U rack | 8U rack |
| Cpu sockets | 2 | — |
| Cpu platform | Intel Xeon Scalable 4th Gen and 5th Gen (up to 2x 64 cores, 350W TDP) | — |
| Memory slots | 32 | 32 |
| Memory type | DDR5-4800 / DDR5-5600 RDIMM | — |
| Memory max (GB) | 4,096 | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 16x 2.5-inch NVMe U.2 / U.3 or E3.S SSDs | — |
| 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 | 8-way NVIDIA HGX H100 / A100 SXM |
| Network onboard | Up to 8x 400Gb/s QSFP-DD PCIe NICs plus dedicated 1GbE iDRAC9 port | — |
| Power supply | Six hot-plug 2800W or 3000W Titanium redundant power supplies (3+3) | — |
| 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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