14th Generation Dell EMC PowerEdge Rack Server Comparison

Dell EMC PowerEdge rack servers help you build a modern infrastructure that minimizes IT challenges and drives business success. Choose from a complete portfolio of 1-2-and-4 socket rack servers to deliver high core density for your traditional applications, virtualization and cloud-native workloads. Enhanced memory speeds, faster NVMe storage options and BIOS tuning allows you to match performance to your workload for ultimate efficiency.

PowerEdge Rack Servers

R6525

R7515

R6515

R940

R940xa

R840

R740xd

R740

R740xd2

R640

R540

R440

R340

R240

Key attributes

Dense virtualization

Powerful performance and scalability

High density compute

Powerful performance

Extreme acceleration

Turbocharge data analytics

Scalable storage performance

Optimal application performance

Enterprise content server

Performance and density

Balanced and adaptable

Scale-out computing

Accelerate business growth

Compute made simple

Target workloads

HPC, Dense VDI and Virtualization

SDS, Virtualization and Data Analytics

Virtualization, HCI and NFV

In-memory databases

GPU database acceleration and machine learning

Dataintensive workloads, HFT and dense virtualization

SDS, service providers, and big data servers

VDI and cloud workloads

Media streaming and SDS

Dense scale-out data center computing and storage

Mail messaging and virtualization

HPC, web tech and scale-out infrastructure

ROBO productivity and dataintensive applications

Small business and service provider workloads

Type of processor

2 x 2nd Gen EPYCTM Processors; up to 64 cores per Processor

1 x 2nd Generation AMD EPYCTM Processor; up to 64 cores per Processor

4 x 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors

2 x 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors

1 x Intel Xeon E-2200, Intel Core i3®, Intel Pentium®, or Intel Celeron® processor

Memory (DDR4 DIMM slots & max)

32 (4TB)

16 (2TB)

48 (15.36TB)

24 (7.68TB)

16 (1TB)

24 (7.68TB)

16 (1TB)

4 (64GB)

Disk drives up to:

8 x 2.5" 4 x 3.5"

12 x 3.5” 8 x 3.5"

8 x 2.5" 4 x 3.5"

24 x 2.5”

32 x 2.5”

26 x 2.5”

32 x 2.5” or 18 x 3.5”

16 x 2.5” or 8 x 3.5”

26 x 3.5” or 16 x 3.5” + 10 x 2.5”2

12 x 2.5” or 4 x 3.5”

14 x 3.5”

10 x 2.5” or 4 x 3.5”

8 x 2.5” or 4 x 3.5”

4 x 2.5”2 or 4 x 3.5”

NVMe drives up to:

12

24

10

12

4

24

N/A

10

N/A

4

N/A

Gen4 PCIe slots up to:

3

2

1

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Gen3 PCIe slots up to:

N/A

2

1

13

12

6

8

5

3

5

2

2

Accelerator support up to:

2 x SW

4 x SW; 1 x FPGA

2 x SW

N/A

4 x DW GPUs or 4 x DW or 8 x SW FPGAs

2 x DW GPUs or 2 x SW or DW FPGAs

3 x DW or 6 x SW GPUs or 3 x DW or 4 x SW FPGAs

N/A

1 x SW GPU or 1 x SW FPGA

N/A

Rack height (U)

1

2

1

3

4

2

1

2

1

1

Integrated security:

TPM 1.2/2.0 optional, Digitally Signed Firmware, Chassis Intrusion Alert and Secure Boot being standard security on all racks. Integrated security features such as Silicon Root of Trust, System Lockdown and System Erase come standard on all racks.

Dell EMC Solutions

When you buy a Dell EMC server, you get more than just hardware. You get access to IT solutions end-to-end. Dell and EMC bring together industry-leading expertise into a common platform to help you transform your data center. Dell EMC can deliver PowerEdge technology at any level of integration – from a best-in-breed platform, to a pre-integrated fully turnkey hybrid cloud implementation or any step in-between. Combining the PowerEdge server infrastructure with Dell Services and Financial Solutions allows you to modernize your data center faster, more affordably and with less risk.

OpenManage Systems Management

Increase the productivity, reliability and cost effectiveness of your Dell EMC PowerEdge servers while making your IT operations more efficient as well. Designed for use by today’s IT Professionals, the Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise console simplifies, intelligently automates and unifies infrastructure management tasks. Though primarily designed to monitor, configure and update tower, rack and modular PowerEdge servers, OpenManage Enterprise also provides end-to-end infrastructure monitoring capabilities for Dell EMC storage and networking devices plus third-party hardware too. Add OpenManage Mobile to enable your IT Pros to receive and take action on both Dell EMC and third-party hardware events anytime, anywhere. OpenManage Integrations enables both hardware and software infrastructure management without leaving third party consoles such as VMware vCenter and Microsoft System Center.

Dell EMC Services

To fully implement a modern infrastructure, organizations require reliable, comprehensive IT services to drive IT transformations, accelerate adoption of new technologies and maximize productivity.