Dell PowerEdge with AMD EPYC
Scale AI with confidence and reduce risk with Dell and AMD
Why AMD EPYC on PowerEdge
Moving to AI and modern data-intensive workloads is a risk-management exercise as much as a performance one. Pairing AMD EPYC silicon with the PowerEdge platform gives you a validated, single-vendor path from proof of concept to production — with one support contract, one systems management toolset and one security architecture across the whole estate.
Core density
Up to 192 cores per processor on 5th Generation AMD EPYC 9005 Series parts. Consolidate racks of older two-socket servers into a far smaller footprint and reclaim the power and cooling budget.
Licensing control
Per-core licensing drives much of the true cost of a virtualized estate. High-performance single-socket designs let you match core counts to your hypervisor and database licensing instead of paying for cores you will never use.
Confidential computing
AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) and Secure Memory Encryption (SME) extend protection to memory itself — important for multi-tenant, virtualized and regulated environments.
Efficiency
Titanium-rated power supplies and DC-MHS open standards compliance across the current generation help keep energy draw in check, with both air-cooled and liquid-cooled options so the platform can match your facilities.
192 cores per processor on 5th Gen AMD EPYC 9005 Series
160 cores in a single socket on the R6715 and R7715
8 NVIDIA HGX B200 GPUs per AMD-based XE9685L node
Scale AI with confidence
AI workloads stall when the host platform starves the accelerators. AMD EPYC brings the core count, memory bandwidth and PCIe Gen5 lanes needed to keep GPUs fed — and Dell wraps that in a factory-integrated, fully supported system rather than a parts list.
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The AMD EPYC PowerEdge portfolio
Current generation — 5th Gen AMD EPYC 9005 Series
Single-socket platforms sized for the midmarket and for licensing-sensitive virtualized estates:
Dual-socket platforms for maximum performance density:
Previous generation — 4th Gen AMD EPYC 9004 Series
Proven 16th generation platforms, still widely deployed and available for estate standardization:
Choosing between one socket and two
The single-socket AMD EPYC platforms are frequently the better economic answer, not the compromise they used to be. Use this as a starting point, then talk to a specialist about your actual licensing and workload profile.
| If your priority is… | Consider | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Cutting per-core licensing | R4715, R5715, R6715, R7715 | One socket lets you match core count to hypervisor and database licensing rather than paying for cores you will not use. |
| Maximum VM density | R6725, R7725 | Two 5th Generation EPYC 9005 processors at up to 192 cores each provide the largest core count available in the PowerEdge rack line, for the deepest consolidation ratios. |
| Storage-heavy workloads | R5715, R7715 | 2U chassis provide the drive bay count for backup targets, file serving and video surveillance retention. |
| Scale-out and HPC | C6615 | Dense multi-node design drives down cost per node for workloads that scale horizontally. |
| AI training and inference | XE9685L, XE7745 | EPYC core count and PCIe Gen5 bandwidth keep GPUs fed; choose liquid-cooled XE9685L for density, air-cooled XE7745 for standard facilities. |
Reduce risk across the lifecycle
Security built into the silicon
PowerEdge Cyber Resilient Architecture anchors boot integrity in a silicon root of trust, with cryptographically signed firmware, Secured Component Verification, Secure Boot, system lockdown and chassis intrusion detection. AMD SEV and SME add memory encryption on top. Protection starts in a secured supply chain and continues through factory-to-site integrity assurance.
One management plane
iDRAC, OpenManage Enterprise and CloudIQ manage AMD and Intel PowerEdge systems through the same tools, so a mixed estate does not mean a second set of processes. Automation and lifecycle management scale with the environment instead of against it.
Services at every phase
ProDeploy accelerates time to value, ProSupport provides proactive and predictive support, and Professional Services for AI helps move use cases into production. Consulting services are available for planning and migration work.
Complete the solution with Dell storage
Compute is only half the answer. AI and consolidation projects succeed or fail on the data layer — how fast it feeds the GPUs, how well it scales, and how reliably it can be recovered.
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