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Dell PowerEdge XE9680L Rack Server

Unmatched Performance for AI Excellence in a 4U liquid cooled chassis

Dell PowerEdge XE9680L seen from the front left, a 4U chassis with a DELL-badged control panel above a bank of front-facing PCIe card slots
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Overview

AI training, large-scale inferencing and High Performance Computing

Unlock unprecedented business insights and achieve groundbreaking innovation with the Dell PowerEdge XE9680L, the ultimate solution for tackling AI and high-performance computing challenges.

Designed to optimize efficiency and productivity, this server delivers unmatched performance, seamless scalability, and advanced cooling, enabling you to stay ahead in a competitive landscape.

Experience a solution tailored to maximize your success and drive transformative outcomes

The Dell PowerEdge XE9680L empowers enterprise AI insights with flexible air-cooled PCIe GPU configurations for inferencing and model fine-tuning.

The Dell PowerEdge XE9680L is a high-performance server designed and optimized for AI & HPC use cases like

  • Large Language Model (LLM) training, fine-tuning, and inference
  • Recommendation engines
  • Molecular Dynamics and Genome Sequencing

Next level performance with choice

The XE9680L is designed to handle the most demanding AI and HPC tasks with ease. Equipped with dual 5th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, each supporting up to 64 cores and, up to 8 NVIDIA HGX B200 or H200 GPUs for exceptional computational power. The inclusion of 32 DDR5 DIMM slots, supporting up to 4TB of memory at speeds up to 5600 MT/s, ensures rapid data processing and seamless performance for complex workloads.

Scalable architecture for future growth

Efficiency and scalability are at the forefront of the XE9680L’s design. Its direct liquid cooling system effectively manages heat, enabling higher performance while reducing energy consumption. The server supports up to 12 PCIe Gen5 slots, allowing for flexible expansion to meet evolving business needs.

Additionally, Dell’s rack-scale factory integration streamlines deployment, ensuring a reliable and efficient setup process that accelerates time-to-value for your AI initiatives.

Cyber Resilient Architecture for Zero Trust IT environment & operations

Security is integrated into every phase of the PowerEdge lifecycle, including protected supply chain and factory-to-site integrity assurance. Silicon-based root of trust anchors end-to-end boot resilience while Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and role-based access controls ensure trusted operations.

Increase efficiency and accelerate operations with autonomous collaboration

The Dell OpenManage™ systems management portfolio delivers a secure, efficient, and comprehensive solution for PowerEdge servers. Simplify, automate and centralize one-to-many management with the OpenManage Enterprise console and iDRAC.

Sustainability

From recycled materials in our products and packaging, to thoughtful, innovative options for energy efficiency, the PowerEdge portfolio is designed to make, deliver, and recycle products to help reduce the carbon footprint and lower your operation costs. We even make it easy to retire legacy systems responsibly with Dell Technologies Services.

Rest easier with Dell Technologies Services

ProSupport Plus for Infrastructure keeps your servers running with proactive and predictive support that prevents issues and provide fast resolutions. With an assigned customer advocate focused on your desired outcomes, 24/7 access to senior engineers, automatic case creation and proactive outreach when issues do arise, you can scale your operations without concern for downtime. It also provides Dell hardware and software support, third-party collaboration, and critical response for Severity 1 issues. Further optimize your servers with Dell Technologies Services expert consulting, deployment, managed services and more. Contact Sales for more information.

Features

Discover the groundbreaking PowerEdge XE9680L

Unlock unprecedented business insights and achieve groundbreaking innovation with the Dell PowerEdge XE9680L, the ultimate solution for tackling AI and high-performance computing challenges.

Designed to optimize efficiency and productivity, this server delivers unmatched performance, seamless scalability, and advanced cooling, enabling you to stay ahead in a competitive landscape. Experience a solution tailored to maximize your success and drive transformative outcomes. This product is only available through a Dell Integrated Rack Scalable Systems order.

PowerEdge XE9680L straight-on front view: the control panel and iDRAC display above eight front-facing PCIe card slots
XE9680L front, bezel removed.

Next level performance with choice

The XE9680L is designed to handle the most demanding AI and HPC tasks with ease. Equipped with dual 5th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, each supporting up to 64 cores, and up to 8 NVIDIA GPUs, it delivers exceptional computational power.

The inclusion of 32 DDR5 DIMM slots, supporting up to 4TB of memory at speeds up to 5600 MT/s, ensures rapid data processing and seamless performance for complex workloads.

Scalable architecture for future growth

Efficiency and scalability are at the forefront of the XE9680L's design. Its direct liquid cooling system effectively manages heat, enabling higher performance while reducing energy consumption. The server supports up to 12 PCIe Gen5 slots, allowing for flexible expansion to meet evolving business needs.

Additionally, Dell's rack-scale factory integration streamlines deployment, ensuring a reliable and efficient setup process that accelerates time-to-value for your AI initiatives.

Systems management and security solutions

OpenManage systems management

Tame the complexity of your IT environment with Dell Technologies OpenManage systems management portfolio which uses tools and solutions to discover, deploy, monitor, manage, update and secure your PowerEdge infrastructure.

Intelligent Automation

Integrate tools across your portfolio with PowerEdge iDRAC, OpenManage Enterprise and CloudIQ solutions that help organizations automate their server lifecycles, optimize operations and scale efficiently.

Built-in security

Stay protected at every phase of the product lifecycle with the PowerEdge cyber resilient architecture that helps accelerate your adoption of a Zero Trust security strategy. From the silicon root of trust, secured component verification, signed firmware and drift detection to BIOS recovery and dynamic system lockdown, you can rest assured that your servers are secure.

Technical Specifications

Dell PowerEdge XE9680L Specifications
FeatureXE9680L
ProcessorTwo 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors (up to 64 cores per processor)
Memory32 DDR5 DIMM slots, supports RDIMM 4 TB max, speeds up to 5600 MT/s
Note: Supports registered ECC DDR5 DIMMs only
Storage ControllersInternal Boot: Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem (NVMe BOSS-N1): HWRAID 1, 2 x M.2 SSDs
GPU
  • 8 x NVIDIA HGX B200 180GB 1000W SXM6 GPUs, fully interconnected with NVIDIA NVLink technology
  • 8 x NVIDIA HGX H200 141GB 700W SXM5 GPUs, fully interconnected with NVIDIA NVLink technology
RackIR5000 required
Front BaysUp to 8 x 2.5-inch NVMe SSD drives max 122.88 TB
Power Supplies
  • 3000W Titanium 200-240 VAC or 240 VDC, hot swap redundant for B200 GPU
  • 2800W Titanium 200-240 VAC or 240 VDC, hot swap redundant for H200 GPU
Cooling OptionsLiquid cooled CPUs, GPUs, and NVLink Switches
ChipsetIntel® C741 chipset
PCIeUp to 12 x16 Gen5 (x16 PCIe) full-height, half-length slots
Embedded NIC2 × 1 GbE
Network Options1 × OCP 3.0 (x8 PCIe lanes)
Fans
  • Six high performance (HPR) gold grade fans installed on the top layer
  • Six high performance (HPR) gold grade fans installed on the bottom layer of the system
Dimensions (H × W × D)Height — 174.3 mm (6.86 in)
Width — Upper 2U: 447 mm (17.59 in) / Lower 2U: 434 mm (17.08 in)
Depth — 1037.57 mm (40.82 in) with bezel / 1025.6 mm (40.37 in) w/o bezel
Weight — 95.6 kg (206.35 lb)
Form Factor4U rack server
Embedded Management
  • iDRAC9
  • iDRAC Direct
  • iDRAC RESTful API with Redfish
  • iDRAC Service Manual
BezelOptional LCD or security bezel
OpenManage Software
  • CloudIQ for PowerEdge plug in
  • OpenManage Enterprise
  • OpenManage Service plugin
  • OpenManage Power Manager plugin
  • OpenManage Update Manager plugin
OpenManage Integrations
  • BMC Truesight
  • OpenManage Integration with ServiceNow
  • Red Hat Ansible Modules
  • Terraform Providers
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
PortsFront: 1 x iDRAC Direct (Micro-AB USB) por, 1 × USB 2.0, 1 × VGA
Rear: 1 × USB 2.0, 1 × USB 3.0, 1 x iDRAC Direct ethernet port
Operating Systems and HypervisorsCanonical Ubuntu Server LTS
OEM-ready version availableFrom bezel to BIOS to packaging, your servers can look and feel as if they were designed and built by you. For more information, Contact Sales

Pricing Notes: Pricing and product availability subject to change without notice.

Support & Services

Dell Technologies offers complete end-to-end services

Optimizing the IT lifecycle is vital. We have expert services for all lifecycle phases that save you time and resources, reduce effort, and improve your IT experience.

Consulting

Consulting services give expert guidance to help you grow, optimize and transform your IT environment at your own pace and budget. Dell employ a broad range of certified consultants and engineers, backed by program management teams, who can deliver deep technical expertise. Dell gives you the confidence that your project will be done right and on time.

Support

Gain the freedom to focus on your business transformation with the support expertise and insights Dell is known for across the globe. Choose the right support based on the criticality of specific systems with available automated predictive analysis, collaborative third-party assistance and a Technology Service Manager.

Deployment

ProDeploy Enterprise Suite helps you get more out of technology starting on day one. Residency Service provides ongoing transition assistance to accelerate adoption. Trust our experts to lead deployments from basic hardware installations through planning, configuration and complex integrations to help you achieve business outcomes today and tomorrow.

Training & Certification

Education Services offers an expansive suite of training services with multiple delivery methods, including instructor-led, self-paced online and virtual instructor-led training. With comprehensive and flexible training programs, we make it easy to ensure your staff has the skills they need to successfully manage and utilize your new technology to its full potential.

Questions? We’re here to help.

From offering expert advice to solving complex problems, we’ve got you covered. Get in touch with a Dell Solutions Specialist today to learn more!

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