PowerEdge XE9680 Rack Server
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
Memory
DIMM Speed
Up to 5600 MT/s
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